What Christmas Means to me Christmas to me is a celebration, which includes spending time with my family, decorating the entire house, inside and out, and shopping, for the people I love. Doing this with the people I love is what means the most to me. Spending Christmas with my family is very important to me. We usually gather and celebrate at my parent's house, in East Tennessee. My husband, our three children, and myself travel from California. My two sisters, their husbands, and children
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Christmas is supposed to be the time of year when everyone is filled with joy and happiness, but times have seemed to change. For majority of the country christmas is all about spending all your money of gifts for your friends and family and advertising. When christmas is really about cherishing the moments you have with the people around you. My personal views on gift giving and receiving has changed this past year. The “YES!” article by zumski Finke has helped my view as well. T’was a week before
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Family; One 6 letter word that means so many things. These are the people who aren't here for you all of the time, no matter what; the people who are supposed to love&support you throughout your lives. These are the people you have some of the best times with, that will never ever be forgotten. Family is Staring down at this photograph from Christmas 1999 brings back so many memories. My whole family looks so happy. all of us bundled up in our big jackets from the cold weather outside, sitting
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Operation Christmas Child has been a part of more than half of my life. I volunteered when I was eight at a family friend’s church. However, the only reason I volunteered was that I needed community service hours for school. I always wished to be placed in the packing group since it had the least leadership role because I never wanted to be a leader. What I did not realize was those years before high school was preparing me for what God had in store for me. When I started my freshman year in high
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Christmas Time When you look outside and all you see is a blanket of white, it usually means it is Christmas time. The leaves have all been stolen from the trees, the sidewalks are barely visible, the heating bill skyrockets and your frustration levels rise from attempting to untangle seemingly endless strands of Christmas lights. The color of dead pine needles cover the living room carpet, the scent of a freshly baked goodies and pine fills the air as you open your front door. These are all parts
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workout is supposed to help me become healthier. Working out sucks but I am told it is good for me so I will continue doing it. Even if it does kill me a little bit each time. William Penn University - Most people have a very difficult time choosing where they want to go for college and how to figure out which college is the one for them but this choice was very easy and that’s William Penn. The William Penn baseball coach called me and wanted to meet me after seeing me play and knowing my
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hard but then Christmas comes around. The best part about having divorced parents as a kid is when you realize that you get two Christmases, which means twice as many presents and twice as many trees to decorate. But, Christmas isn’t about the amount of presents you get or how many tress you get to decorate, it’s about spending time with your family. When you’ve come to that realization then you have started becoming an adult and that’s what happened to me. Almost every year on Christmas morning my
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lovely family from me, I can’t wait till you get here; we are going to have so much fun! I have planned that we are going to this amusement park called baboon city, it is a fantastic place. My parents are going to drive us out to baboon city and back, so you don’t have to worry about transport. When we get there we are going to try out some of the incredible facilities they have there, they have so many extremely cool things and I nearly can’t wait for you to try them with me. They have this amazing
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A Christmas Carol is a very deep story about a man named Scrooge who redeemed himself from being and mean old man who hates christmas to ok guy who likes christmas just like he did when he was just a boy. This redemption happened because of the three ghost who appear in the story of the christmas carol. The name of the three ghost were past, present and yet to come and they were named because of obvious reasons. The first ghost shows Scrooge the past and its visions of Scrooge loving christmas as
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At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is mean, ill tempered, truculent. He’s mean because in the story Cratchit burst into applause. Scrooge’s response to this is “Another sound out of you, and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your position.”(4) He’s ill tempered because in the story there are few kids singing God Rest Ye merry gentlemen. Scrooge’s response will seizing a ruler to this is “ get away from here , you! I didn’t ask to be bothered with that.”(6) He’s truculent because
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