Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.
I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.
Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.
I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.
I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
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