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Contest, Family, Family Adventures, Toys

Playing Classic Games and Talking Christmas Traditions

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Playing games as a family

We received a set of classic toys from Catholic Central for sponsorship of this blog post. Catholic Central also is providing another set of toys for us to give away to you.

With Christmas less than two weeks away at this point let’s talk Christmas traditions. Growing up Catholic and also raising our kids in the Catholic tradition we certainly have many traditions centered around Christmas. Each year we go to the Christmas Eve vigil or midnight masses at our church. We also have family to our home to share a meal on Christmas Eve.

One of the traditions that I have been excited to do every year is our annual toy collection and donation to Christmas is for Kids. This is something that we have done for ten years. We involve the kids in this project because understanding that helping people however we can is important. So, we save money each month to do a special shopping trip where the kids decide what toys to get for the donations. Toys and Christmas go hand in hand for us so it made the most sense that our charity of choice to work with provides toys to local children each Christmas.

At Christmas is for Kids

Once we go on our shopping trip together and drop off the toys we go to a local shrine called La Salette to see the Christmas lights and then hit Bliss Bros. Dairy for dinner. While we have been collecting the toys and donating them for 10 years it has only been the last 7 or so years that we’ve added in the La Salette and Bliss night. It is one of my favorite things about the Christmas season.

Eva by the lights

We love toys and games, too. We receive so many toys and games to review. However, sometimes we have the most fun doing silly simple games together. Catholic Central put together these Christmas Fun in 5 Minutes games to play and you don’t need much to do them. Just download the .pdf file and you can start playing silly fun games as you prepare for your own Christmas traditions. It also includes some cool facts about the “whys” and history behind some of the most time-honored Christmas traditions!

Christmas Fun in 5 Minutes

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Family, Food, Photo-A-Day

Kids at La Salette Shrine – Christmas 2017

Kids at La Salette
Photo-A-Day #4625

We made a last minute decision to head over to LaSalette Shrine to see the lights tonight. When Allison and the kids came home from school we weren’t in the mood to make anything for dinner so we decided that we’d do our annual La Salette trip. We got there right before the lights went on. We left in such a hurry, however that both Allison and I left our wallets at home. That was unfortunate because we were going to go to Bliss for dinner. So, while Allison and the kids walked through the Nativity sets I ran home for the wallet. Luckily for us we live right around the corner from La Salette.

We enjoyed the lights very much. As we walked around the pond Eva and Allison took turns reading the Christmas Alphabet signs. Eva did a really good job considering that they were all in a cursive script. Andrew even helped out a little. It wasn’t too cold, but it had snowed the day before and so a few places were closed. Mostly spots with steps.

After our trek around the shrine we went to Bliss for dinner. Out annual post La Salette meal was a good one. Although my order came out first messed up but went back and was fixed. I do love their burgers. I had been getting the Bliss Specials for years but now they have a Blue Cheese burger and I like that even more. And, of course, this is the one day during the Winter that we have ice cream.