“The christmas stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there," reads the passage from that timeless “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” poem that people my age used to recite out loud in school come Christmas time. So indeed, hanging stockings over the chimney has long been [...]
In the Christmas USA, one of the traditional Christmas Wreath practices we still like to observe is hanging around our homes wreaths made with real or artificial evergreen branches which are decorated with bows, leaves, flowers, fruits, nuts and other ornaments. The places where we commonly hang such wreaths are on the doors, walls and [...]
At his home somewhere at the North Pole, Santas reindeer Clause has a stable where he keeps his team of flying reindeer which he uses to pull his sleigh through the air whenever he delivers gifts to all the nice little boys and little girls on Christmas eve. Literature professor Clement C. Moore's 1823 poem [...]
A Christmas trees is a designed shrub, usually an all time natural conifer such as brighten, or maple or fir, generally associated with the party of Xmas. The Xmas shrub is one of the most well known and respected Xmas customs. Each year, a thousand live plants are purchased and designed .Evergreen coniferous plants stand [...]
While there may be some minor regional differences in the type or cut of santas suit that Santa Claus wears, here in the United States, he is typically garbed in a white fur trimmed red jacket and pants with a broad buckled belt, a matching hat and black boots. Garb him any other way and [...]
Did you know that the use of evergreen trees to celebrate the winter season occurred before the birth of Christ or before the first Christmas, that the first recorded reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. That using small candles to light a Christmas tree dates back to the middle of the 17th [...]
Christmas elves have long been a part of American Christmas folklore. They are often depicted as tiny magical beings with pointy ears and long noses. They are also typically shown garbed in green or red and wearing pointy hats and pointy shoes. They live with Santa Claus and act as his helpers at the North [...]
On Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, it is customary for most families to get together for that special traditional Christmas dinner. Considering that for much of the season, we have been very busy buying gifts, wrapping them, writing greeting cards, and so forth, come Christmas dinner time, we take pause, sit back a while. yes, [...]
As far back as I can remember, come Christmas season, there's that lovely, jaunty song playing almost everywhere we go telling that story about a Frosty Snowman named Frosty. As we all know, the song goes this way – Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corn cob pipe and a button [...]
Can you imagine Christmas without candy canes? Typically white with red stripes and often peppermint-flavored, these cane-shaped hard candy sticks have long been as much a part of American Christmas tradition as Christmas trees and mistletoe. In fact, they have become so popular, so well-loved in our part of the world that we now even [...]
