Christmas Movies
I have a few Christmas traditions that are strictly followed. A live tree; I “hide” candy in plain site, say on the roof of the gingerbread house, and see how long it takes for my kids to find it; and from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day, we only watch Christmas movies, and we watch lots of them. That’s probably our most significant tradition of all.
A brief point of disclaimer: though I’m an evangelical, and while I think the move from calling “Christmas” to “the holidays” is as silly and unnecessary as the next person, I’ve long more or less followed the Puritans and I’ve not really thought of Christmas as a religious holiday anyway. (Actually, for a host of reasons many early puritan communities actually forbade its celebration altogether but that’s another column.)
That’s a long way of saying I love having secular fun during the season. And there’s not ... Read More...
