1st Day of Christmas Giveaway with Lynn Cowell
Congrats to the winner of the Little Light O’ Mine giveaway. She is Melissa Barnes. Please send your home address to [email protected] so we can have your prize shipped to you.
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Welcome to our 5th annual 12 Days of Christmas giveaways!.
Each day I’ll feature one of my Proverbs 31 sisters offering a recipe, idea or memory and giving away a prize for the day!
First up?
My fabulous friend and teen expert:
Last Christmas, I asked my kids this question:
What is your favorite holiday tradition?
#1 – Cutting down the Christmas tree in the mountains (my favorite too!)
#2 – Making Cowell Peanut Butter Balls
#2 is, well can we just say messy! Typically, we will double the recipe, which already makes 125! You would think I would have learned by now that is not a good idea. One year we broke the mixer, so my husband put the whisk in his electric drill. It worked!
These moments in the kitchen, with powdered sugar flying and melted chocolate dripping are the moments when a family can meld together. Working on something together has a way of drawing us closer.
One thing I have noticed while mentoring teens for the past 12 years is so many kids aren’t in the kitchen any more. I have a tradition of having my small group of girls over each Christmas to make goodies. I am so surprised at how uncomfortable they are with measuring and mixing. Whether mom is not around or too busy, they are missing the joys of memories that come from a kitchen.
Do you have a teen near your influence that you could take under your wing this coming year?
Maybe you could start a little group of girls that meet every so often, learn a new recipe and eat it too!
And maybe, while you are mixing and making, Jesus will open a door for you to share about more than baking. You can share just how crazy He is about them. Today’s girl needs you; needs your experience and your love too!
Interested in learning more on how you can impact the girls in your world? Stop by my blog at www.LynnCowell.com!
Now for my giveaway:
I am giving away a Willow Tree – “Bright Star” and a signed copy of my book for teen girls called Devotions for a Revolutionary Year.
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Okay–to be entered in today’s giveaway, tell us your favorite holiday activity. Or, if time is tight, just say “O’ Christmas Tree”
Remember, you have until Sunday night December 16th to comment on all the posts. One grand prize winner will be chosen from among the gals who post on all 12 days! What the grand prize is will be announced sometime this week (when I figure it out!!!)
Christmas baking and putting up the tree with the kids.
O Christmas Tree
My favorite activity is listening to Christmas carols while sitting in the dark with the Christmas tree lights on.
Gathering with friends and family for dinner and fellowship
O’ Christmas Tree
Baking with my daughter and then I go to a cookie exchange with some of my closest friends.
Jumping in the car with some snacks (usually chocolate) and some hot chocolate or tea to comb the neighborhoods to see all the Christmas lights on the houses. :)
making christmas cookies and packing them up and giving them to neighbours or those we know are going to have a hard christmas with a homemade christmas card
Merry Christmas to all may the Love of Christ fill your homes abundantly
not only on Christmas but all year long. Thanks to Lynn for sharing this blog and your
Heart. Thanks too, for all the wonderful memories shared thus far. My daughter (14yrs.)
and I have done and enjoyed many of them. We have for the past 3 – 4yrs. helped at our
church’s Christmas box program and have been so blessed by the experience. We have met
so many wonderful people through this time of serving. Love In Christ :)
O Christmas Tree!
Since we moved here (the Ozarks) we have had a tradition of going to a Candle Light Service on Christmas Eve. Our Church does not have one so its fun to visit another church. This year I will be making dinner and leading carols with our Celebrate Recovery family–hopefully a new tradition in the making. We are the only family some in our group have so it is the only right thing to do. I am so looking forward to this!
I haven’t made Christmas cookies in a long time but all these posts about baking have stirred up that desire. Who knows, maybe all our CR family will be going home with home made cookies this year :)
This year I have no opinion of my favorite – I’ll let my family decide :-)
Decorating the Christmas tree!
I would have to say putting up the Christmas tree while listening to Handel’s Messiah and Christmas music. I’ll have to say this year was great. My 2 out of state grandsons, age 8 and 11 were here and decorated the whole tree for me. Watching their faces as they pulled ornaments was such a joy for me. They were priceless. And I have the most beautiful tree. It is perfect.
O Christmas Tree!
We love to decorate the Christmas tree! I have ornaments from when I was a child and I have bought our children special ornaments every year. I also buy an ornament while on vacation as a token of our trip. Therefore, most of our ornaments have a special meaning or memory. It’s fun to tell the stories as each ornament is hung on the tree.
Baking Christmas cookies and watching my 2 year old soak up all the goodness that Christmas brings!
O’ Christmas Tree =)
We do cut down our Christmas tree which is so fun. But, I just love having the time with my family. As everyone has grown it is harder to be together. So I love that we get together at Christmas. This year will be different. My sister is overseas doing missionary work, my brother and his wife just had twins and can’t come down. So it will be my family and my parents and youngest brother. But at least with skype we will all be there. And our family just keeps growing.
Decorating the Christmas tree with my 3-year-old and enjoying the Christmas Cantata at church on Christmas Eve.
O, Christmas tree! :)
I love hearing mamaw reading the Christmas story from the book of Luke and singing Away in the Manger every year for as long as I can remember.
O christmas Tree!
We go with our kids and Grandma and Grandpa driving down Jefferson looking at the Christmas lights and decorations on the houses while singing Christmas carols. We also have cinnabons for breakfast on Christmas morning .
O’ Christmas Tree