Learn Something New Tuesday October 13, 2011

I found out about this great link up over at The Charming Mad Chatter a few weeks ago, and I am linking up once again. If you get the chance I would recommend heading over to Madeline's blog and checking it out. 

Here are the rules for the Learn Something New Tuesday linkup.

YOU MUST answer the questions in order to link up! 

I will delete ALL links that don't follow that guideline! 

Please link up the post and not your whole blog!

Theme: Holidays

1. Did you celebrate Halloween? (example; go trick or treating, decorate, etc)
2. What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
3. Pumpkin pie or apple pie?
4. Are you a Christmas minimalist? Or do you go present overboard? :)
5. Do you incorporate Christ in Christmas?
6. What's your favorite Christmas tradition?

1. Did you celebrate Halloween? (example; go trick or treating, decorate, etc)
No, we do not celebrate Halloween. We feel it is a pagan holiday, definitely has roots in paganism. I didn't realize how many of the traditions surrounding Halloween had pagan roots.
2. What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
If I can get good homemade mac and cheese (like my ex's father used to make) I would have to choose that. However, I would have to say that I really enjoy stuffing and also sweet potato casserole.
3. Pumpkin pie or apple pie?
Apple Pie
4. Are you a Christmas minimalist? Or do you go present overboard? :)
We do not want the children to feel that Christmas is all about the presents. We are actually in the middle. 
5. Do you incorporate Christ in Christmas?
Yes we do as it is the celebration of His birth, His first coming to earth. We read the Bible stories on the days leading up to Christmas. We do not have a tree. We make a paper tree that we use as a countdown/Advent chart. Each day we cut off a piece. Underneath we have a picture of a cross. It is supposed to represent needles of the tree falling off a little at a time and then shows that Christ died on a cross, so we don't want to focus on the tree of Christmas.
6. What's your favorite Christmas tradition?
I'm thinking the tree Advent calendar from above. I actually got the idea from a Christmas card I saw years ago.

Learn Something New Tuesday (A couple of days late Oct 6, 2011)

So I find out about this great link up over at The Charming Mad Chatter a couple of weeks ago, and then I forget about it. So, I am linking up once again. If you get the chance I would recommend heading over to Madeline's blog and checking it out. 

Here are the rules for the Learn Something New Tuesday linkup.

YOU MUST answer the questions in order to link up! 

I will delete ALL links that don't follow that guideline! 

Please link up the post and not your whole blog!

Theme: Favorite Foods!

1.  Favorite Ice Cream Flavor?

2.  Favorite Food of all time?

3. Favorite Candy?

4. Favorite Drink?

5. Favorite Lunch Meat?

6. Favorite Cheese? 

1.  Favorite Ice Cream Flavor? Anything that includes chocolate and peanut butter right now. We have Chocolate Panda Paws which is chocolate ice cream with mini peanut butter cups shaped like panda paws, and fudge swirls. I love that fudge, it is so thick in places.

2.  Favorite Food of all time? Don't really have a favorite food of all time. Though Pizza Hut Pan Pizza would be a good choice, with lots of veggies of course.

3. Favorite Candy? Reeses Pieces. 

4. Favorite Drink? Um, water. Really that is about all I drink. Though if we go out to Burger King my favorite drink is the Raspberry Tea. I also like Arizona's Lemon Iced Tea.

5. Favorite Lunch Meat? German Bologna (Wunderbarr brand) sliced thin

6. Favorite Cheese? Love Polly-O mozzarella or fresh mozzarella like my aunt used to get from the Italian deli when I was growing up. Of course, we can't get either of those where I live, so my favorite is Muenster, from the deli, sliced thin and placed on soft pretzels for a midnight snack.  We take the soft frozen pretzels, put a tiny bit of the salt on , and cover with cheese. Bake for 6 minutes. Yummy.

Learn Something New Tuesday Sept 20, 2011

I found this link up over at The Charming Mad Chatter.

It's Learn Something New Tuesday! 

Fall Theme!

1. Do you like candy corn?

2. Do you decorate for Halloween?

3. What's your favorite fall activity?

4. If you craft, do you make any fall crafts?

5. For Halloween, do you do pumpkin carving?

MY ANSWERS

1. Do you like candy corn?

I LOVE the stuff. Luckily we can buy it bulk. Yum yum 

2. Do you decorate for Halloween?

No, we do not celebrate Halloween.

3. What's your favorite fall activity?

I love to go to corn mazes, but we don't get a chance very often. What we do get to do is head on over to the park and collect leaves, last year we tried to catch them in a basket as they fell.

4. If you craft, do you make any fall crafts?

With the girls we have made leaf men before. I think the girls would like to do it again. 

5. For Halloween, do you do pumpkin carving?

Not usually. Sometimes we carve them using the Pumpkin Carving Prayer I learned about when I was working at a daycare center that was in an Alliance Church. 

Dear God,
As I carve my pumpkin help me say this prayer:

Open my mind so I can learn about You;
(Cut the top of the pumpkin)

Take away all my sin and forgive me for the wrong things I do.
(Clean out the inside)

Open my eyes so Your love I will see;
(Cut the eyes out in heart shapes)

I'm so sorry for turning up my nose to all you've given me.
(Cut a nose in the shape of a cross)

Open my ears so your word I will hear.
(Cut the ears shaped like the Bible)-we did rectangles

Open my mouth so I can tell others You're near
(cut the mouth in the shape of a fish)

Let Your light shine in all I say and do! Amen.
(Place a candle inside and light it)

Head on over to The Charming Mad Chatter to link up your answsers.