|
||||
| |||||
|
Christmas
Treat Trees We
used to know a lady at Meadows of Dan, Virginia, Ivalien Belcher, who has a
wonderful Christmas tradition that a lot of you might consider adding to your
own. Every year she decorates an outside tree with edible decorations for the
birds, squirrels, rabbits and other animals. Some
of the things you could decorate the tree with are strings of popcorn, strings
of a cereal like Cheerios, pine cones stuffed with peanut butter, sunflower
seeds stuck in the peanut butter or strings of cranberries. You could use your
imagination and come up with a lot of other possibilities too. Any sort of raw
nuts would be a good addition but be sure they are unsalted and unsweetened. If you don’t have a tree you could decorate, you could simply put out an aluminum foil pie pan and place seeds or breadcrumbs in it. If you can place it in a position where you can see it from your window, you can reap the extra benefit of watching the birds and animals that come and go. You might want to get a book identifying birds and keep a record of how many different types of birds that visit your feeder. It makes a nice hobby and gift for the whole family. A
Christmas Diary Just imagine if you could get out a book and read what your great-grandparents did on Christmas day a hundred years ago! Wouldn't it be wonderful to read what they did, what they thought, what they had to eat, if they sang carols, and so on. Start
a new tradition this year, start a Christmas diary. Buy a notebook (or hard
bound books with blank pages can be bought at book stores) and set it aside for
Christmas morning. Then bring it out, record the year, and have every member of
the family write something in it, from Grandpa to the smallest child. If you
have children too young to write, ask them what they would like to say and you
write it down. Store the book away with the Christmas ornaments after Christmas is past and get it out again next year. Through the years, it will become a real treasure. As the years pass, members will come and members will go. There will be good years and probably lean years, happiness and sadness, but you will be able to look back on them all through each member of the family’s eyes and their own handwriting. Pass
this book down through the generations and you will have a REAL family heirloom!
|
|
