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• What are your favorite holiday traditions?

  Published: December 8, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Favorite Holiday Traditions Christmas Tradtions Christmas Trad, Favoriteholidaytraditions Christmastradtions Christmastraditions

  more of my favorite holiday traditions from my childhood, as well as several new ones. Traditions I'd like to continue or start this year: making a gingerbread house with Bean; stringing cranberry & popcorn garlands around a tree outside for the birds; a special package on Christmas Eve with new pajamas for Bean; scones on

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• Win a Free Pass to Blogher 08 or Other Fantastic Prizes - A Menu for Hope Starts Tomorrow!

  Published: December 9, 2007, 10:14 am

  Tags: Blogher Conferences, Food Amp Amp Drink, Social Change Non Profits Amp Amp Ngos, World, Holiday Traditions, Menu For Hope

  For the fourth year, food bloggers around the world are participating in A Menu for Hope, the annual fund-raiser sponsored by Chez Pim. This year's campaign officially starts tomorrow and runs from December 10-21, and will raise money for the UN World Food Program with donations targeted to a school food program in Lesotho. We're hoping to beat

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• Santa will call your house and save you a mall trip

  Published: December 10, 2007, 3:02 am

  Tags: Call From Santa, Callfromsanta, Holidash, Holiday Traditions, Holidaytraditions, Mall Santa, Mallsanta, Santa Claus, Santaclaus, Talk To Santa, Talktosanta, Visit From Santa, Visitfromsanta

  Filed under: Family togetherness, Doing it myself, Internet, Creative projectsNo time to go to the mall and stand in line for a visit with Santa? Santa can contact your child from the comfort of your own home with some help from the little elves at SantaSpeaking.com Once an adult fills out the questionnaire and pays the fee ($21.95), they can

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• A gift for you

  Published: December 20, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Chrismas Holidays Family Traditions Twas The Night Before Chr, Chrismas Holidays Familytraditions Twasthenightbeforechristmas J, Holiday Traditions, Holidaytraditions

  to check things off my holiday to-do list: write letters, send cards, bake fudge and cookies and bright red cherry jam. Decorate the house, put up the tree, wrap and mail gifts. Shop for Christmas dinner, make a chocolate cake, set the table and put out the holiday candles. I opened the box. Inside, I found ribbons saved in plastic

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• My Favorite Christmas Glögg and More Hot Drinks to Keep You Warm

  Published: December 23, 2007, 2:22 pm

  Tags: Food Drink, Blogher Holiday Guide, Christmas, Holiday Drinks, Holiday Food, Holiday Parties, Holiday Traditions, Recipes

  I've been making for holiday parties ever since. Keep reading for Jane's fabulous Gl gg recipe, plus a few more versions of Gl gg I found. Before I give you the recipe, a slight warning: this drink is highly alcoholic, but so sweet and delicious that it's easy to drink down too much without realizing it. When I serve it at a party, I

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• Santa's Coming: Are We Ready?

  Published: December 22, 2007, 8:20 am

  Tags: Food Drink, Mommy Family, Christmas, Holiday Traditions

  "Mom? May I help with the dishes, please?" "Mom, my brother just whacked me but I didn't hit him back and I really do love him." "Mom, would it be okay if I light the candles for your bubblebath?" Yes, Santa will arrive soon and so kids everywhere are priming parents with Nice, not Naughty. What to do, to prepare? First off, my very favorite,

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• What are you making for Christmas?

  Published: December 24, 2007, 3:33 am

  Tags: Christmas Dinner, Holidash, Holiday Traditions, Mashed Potatoes, Pasta, Turkey

  under: Holidays, ChristmasMy family is rather traditional when it comes to holiday dinners. We usually have turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, carrots, squash, turnip, and cranberry sauce for dinner, and then a giant table filled with cookies, pies, brownies, nuts, and cheeses for later. This year we're trying to do things a little bit

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• FELIZ NAVIBLAH! [Holiday Traditions]

  Published: December 24, 2007, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Charo, Christmas Is Gay, Clips, Holiday Traditions, Top

  newVideoPlayer("charo_gawker.flv", 475, 376); And now, at last: Charo's appearance on the Pee-Wee Herman show's infamous Christmas Special. YOU'RE WELCOME.

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• Do They Know It's Christmas Time At All? [Holiday Traditions]

  Published: December 24, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Clips, Holiday Traditions, Punk Rock

  Now it is an annual Christmas tradition: "Swiss punk rock celebrities sing for beer and fame. Taken from the Teenage Kings/Hukedicht Split-Album "Fist Fight Story."

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• The Christmas Pajamas

  Published: December 25, 2007, 7:18 am

  Tags: Life, Mommy Family, Celebrations, Holidays, Gifts, Blogher Holiday Guide, Christmas, Christmas, Holiday Traditions, Pajamas

  and I blended our Christmas traditions, one of the easiest blends was the tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve - and that gift would be new pajamas. The only snag in this blending was that TW has this thing for kids (and adults) wearing matching holiday pajamas. I do not DO matching. Ever. So I quickly nixed the idea of adults

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• Celebrating Kwanzaa With Activities and Gifts!

  Published: December 24, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Blogher Holiday Guide, Carol S Daughter, Holiday Traditions, Kwanzaa, Zawadi

  great hand-dyed sock yarn in holiday colors. You can learn how to knit!  Ok, in reality one should think about what to do to leave the community better and more beautiful than we inherited it. Think about volunteering for a community garden, Christmas in April, or Habitat for Humanity.  Imani: Faith. Religious faith is far too

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• Holiday breakfast traditions

  Published: December 26, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Breakfast, Christmas Morning, Eggs, Holiday, Traditions, Turkey Bacon, Turkeybacon

  Poultry, Newspapers, Holidays, ChristmasI realize that it's the day after Christmas and probably not the best time to talk about what your holiday breakfast traditions are, but it's on my mind and so I'm writing about it. You see, in my family, it isn't Christmas morning without bacon. In our house it's turkey bacon because my mom

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