Unforgettable Childhood

This weekend I made up Graham Cracker Houses for my Daisy Girl Scouts to decorate with Candy for our Christmas Party.

Yesterday I let my other two girls use the two leftover houses. I had never attempted any sort of houses, gingerbread or graham cracker. It was not quite as easy as all the pictures look, but they had a lot of fun with it.

I promised my girls we would do a big house out of real gingerbread before Christmas. (Not sure when we are going to fit that in??)

Even though it was a little tricky to get the houses to stay together. I would recommend this project for Christmas fun.

A few years ago we decided that we were going to do an artificial Christmas tree instead of a real one. I got tired of picking up pine needles in July.

I decided that if we could do a tree farm and pick out our tree it would be a different experience, but just buying it in a little store lot, wasn’t worth it.

My husband worked on Saturday so the girls and I decided to do it without him. First we had to separate all of the colors.

Madelyn helped me spruce up the branches.

Taylor helped add the branches to the base.

It took a long time to get the tree all put together and the lights strung, but everyone helped. They could not wait to start adding the ornaments. I would love to have a theme tree, but we have too many memories on this tree to make it any different.

We could not find the Santa hats so the girls improvised with the Stockings for a picture in front of the tree.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas at our house.

Welcome to Unforgettable Childhood’s Christmas for Kids Special Feature.

Each day throughout the holiday season we will feature one recipe, project, craft or tradition that you can do with your kids.

The holiday season is a great time to start new family traditions and make memories that will last a lifetime.

Today’s feature is: Christmas Countdown Book Basket

Each Christmas our family adds books to our Christmas Library. Last night when the girls were out of the house with their dad I wrapped 27 Christmas books that I had put away since the last Christmas season. Before bed one of the girls unwrapped one book that we read as a bedtime story.

Each night up until Christmas we will read a book from the basket. When we get to the last book it will be Christmas Day. There are wonderful Christmas books that we share together every holiday.

Last night the book we read was God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa Bergren.

This is a wonderful book that helps kids realize that God gave us Christmas with the gift of Jesus Christ. I was sent this book from Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group. We actually own three other books by this author titled God Gave us You, God Gave Us Two and God Gave Us Heaven. Tomorrow I will post more information about this title and Bergren’s newest book, God Gave Us Love.

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