The World Needs More Christmas Stories
Christmas Stories on Facebook, all written by Karen Smith-Will unless noted.
2023, Dec. 10 - The Blue Monstrosity
2023, Oct. 12 - Some Christmas Humor
2022, Dec. 22 - It was a Good Day AKA The Fire 🔥
2022, Nov. - Christmas Tree Lights 🕯️
2021, Dec. 25 - 12 Days of Christmas (vs advent calendar)
2020, Dec. 23 - Merry Chicken Soup with Rice 🎼 (with very special thanks to Carole King)
2019, Dec. 5 - The Christmas Piano 🎹
2018, Dec. 26 - Christmas Leftovers
2018, Dec. 26 - Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
2018, Dec. 24 - Christmas Stocking Haiku
2018, Dec. 9 - Video 📽️ Walkthrough of our Fruit & Veggie Trees
2014, Dec. 20 - Christmas Cooking, It's all in the Cards
2012, Dec. 12 - The Upside-Down Christmas Tree
1987 - Life Savers Storybooks (scroll down to 1987)
Video Story on YouTube
2024, Dec. 7 - The Grand Illumination at Colonial Williamsburg
Stories on Valutivity:
2024, July (🌲 in July!) - Life Savers Ornaments
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December 2, 2017
My friend and I were thrown together a lot in those early years.
Both young and married, hanging out in small groups of friends.
Christmas parties.
Both expecting.
Both having babies, just a few weeks apart.
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Sometimes it’s difficult to mine back through blocks of time, to discover why I have picked up a habit. Decades ago (could I even be old enough to use such a phrase?!), I began to save the turkey carcass after each holiday when such a bird was on the menu.
Written 11/16/2016. Originally published on my Facebook.
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"Mountain greenery
Oh, what scenery!"
If you recognize these lyrics, you, too may be a fan of The Dick van Dyke Show. This is less of a story, than a collection of greenery that inspires me at Christmas. (And by the way, it's sung in season 1, episode 27, "The Sleeping Brother.)
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As we reach the 12th day of Christmas, I wanted to reemphasize the Christ child, born on Christmas Day (not necessarily 12/25 of course, but presumably the darkest day of the year benefits from a reminder of The Light).
If you don't have Luke 2 memorized, you may have nonetheless have heard Christ's birth story in a sanctuary, in your living room, or in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Where can you go from here?
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The 7th day of Christmas brings in the last of the fowl in the song: "7 swans a-swimming," preceded by geese, calling (or colley) birds, French hens, turtle doves and a partridge. In Virginia, in the United States, all of those are very common birds (except for that partridge in the pear tree!).
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🎵On the 21st day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ❄️ , a🌨️ snowstorm... finally!! See the video 📽️ here.
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I had already lined up an article about this topic, using a Christmas in the past as an example. But then, other stuff intervened. Sometimes, the highs are highs, the lows are lows and they're 🔙 to 🔙. So what do you do?
Read more: 8th Day of Christmas: The One Where Things Go Wrong
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Following the 9th Day's Greenery, we continue the hanging of the greens with a focus on Christmas trees and their ornaments. Since Victorian times, trees have been the centerpiece of Christmas decor, but we've dialed the complexity of our trees up and down, based on life.
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An angel of mercy came to our house each Christmas Eve or thereabout, when I was in high school. He had long locks that brushed halfway down his back. For years, he just showed up without warning, bearing gifts for our family.
[1st published on Facebook, December 24, 2014]
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Dec. 24, 2016 - I shared this on Facebook as #Christmasstory #1, by Diane G., a guest storyteller
Dec. 24, 2014, Diane G.
I was reminded this evening of Jamie's and my first Christmas, 28 years ago. We had only been married a few weeks when we realized we were COMPLETELY unprepared for Christmas, and also COMPLETELY broke.
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I wanted "5 Golden Rings" to be a story about the 3rd ring Barry ever gave me. Imagine my surprise when I opened my jewelry box to find no emerald ring! Hopefully it will show up at some point, and I'll write that story then. In the meantime, the "5 Golden Rings" will be cookies. What's Christmas without cookies?!
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