77. Christmas traditions and activities
Water,blueberries and hot tea is how we kick off this show. Catherine Oehlman, onscreen personality, speaker and writer of the popular website and blog Squigglemum and I talk about Christmas activities and keeping it special for the children and time to enjoy it ourselves. 
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We learn
- some typical Christmas traditions ( 5:26)
- Joining and melding of family traditions ( 7:58)
- cookie exchanges ( 10:10 )
- Carols by candlelight (12:27)
- Christmas crafts ( 14:12)
- Truth in the Tinsel ebook
- Simple Advent calendar ( 14:55)
- Toilet rolls and the nativity (15:17)
- Christmas angels via muminthemadhouse.com ( 15:56 )
- Making a nativity set ( 16:23)
- balancing out Christmas and Santa ( 19:09)
- Our crazy Advent calendar schedule ( 20:06 )
- using photographs to jog memory and provide prompts (22:20)
- wrapping gifts and handmade gifts and writing cards (23:01)
- stress free and reason for the season (24:34)
- Good givers and receive gratefully (25:49 )
- Worldvision & Compassion (26:53)
- Buying for charity giving (27:05)
- Grocery store questions ( 31:05)
- Buying handmade online(33:10)
- Dealing with pressure ( 37:10)
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