Today on the Christmas Blog Party I welcome…myself!
Angela here taking a turn at sharing a Christmas memory with you.
I have a new memory we are creating this year at my house. I’m talking the elf on the shelf. Did you know they didn’t just pop up in 2005? There were actually similar elves back when I was a kid in the 60’s. Of course they looked a bit different. Here is an article all about it on the You Paid More Than Me website.
Ours just hung around on the tree or mantle piece as decorations. Now, they do all kinds of wacky crazy things (when you’re not watching of course). Check out this Pinterest board to see what they do! (Disclaimer: I do not necessarily endorse everything these little elves get into! LOL!)
My mom still has ours somewhere. I did let her know that if they ever needed a new home, to send them my way. In the meantime I found a cheap knock off/remake version of the variety I had as a kid. I bought two and began our adventure with our own elfies.
My daughter is a teenager, but she loves this sort of fun and enjoys waking up each morning to see what they have been up to while she is sleeping. Here are a couple pictures I snapped to share. 
What is one of your favorite silly Christmas memories you had as a kid or you participate in today
(for yourself or your own kids)?
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I’m giving away a set of my 2 books: Where Hope Starts and Where Healing Starts,
book 1 & 2 of the Applewood Hill series.
In a city full of dreams… Karen Marino’s life is a nightmare. The New York City restaurant manager is a professional success, but her marriage is in shambles. When her husband, Barry shows up drunk at her restaurant, she loses both.
She flees The Big Apple and returns to her Midwestern home to sort through her options. But instead of answers, she finds an old boyfriend ready to rekindle romance, a family full of secrets and an angry brother bent on revenge.
Still in New York, Barry fights his own demons. He knows he messed up, but is powerless to stop his rage and addictions. A fistfight on the streets of the city lands him in jail and forces him to face the possibility of a future behind bars.
Karen knows holding onto her bitterness won’t repair her marriage. But how do you forgive someone when you don’t feel like it? As she searches for the answer, she uncovers the family secret that threatens to tear them all apart. Can she find her way back to the place Where Hope Starts?
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Joanna, full of bitterness over the past, can no longer ignore the growing storm inside her and is bent on self-destruction as she seeks to ease her pain. But the refuge she seeks is always out of her reach.
Her brother Blake must choose between what has always been safe and what he has always wanted. One mistake after another leads him down a dangerous path.
The one for all, all for one sibling bond can’t help them now. They are both determined to hang onto their anger, never forgetting. Never forgiving. They see no reason to trust God.
After so many years of turmoil, will the Hannigan siblings find refuge in the God who loves them? Or will they get lost along the way?
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Santa Claus, brought me a Gene Autry Bicycle for Christmas one year when I was around ten years old! Loved that bike, and wish I still had it now! An antique!
We we traveling by train from California to Alabama. My brother was missing one morning. After searching the entire train my step-mom had someone go into the mens room to check for him. A man came out laughing. He was in the bathroom with his plastic shaving set soaping up and shaving and repeating over and over.