All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth Lyrics

Every body stops
and stares at me
These two teeth are
gone as you can see
I don’t know just who
to blame for this catastrophe!
But my one wish on Christmas Eve
is as plain as it can be!
All I want for Christmas
is my two front teeth,
my two front teeth,
see my two front teeth!
Gee, if I could only
have my two front [...]

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Little Drummer Boy Lyrics

Little Drummer Boy!
The words and music to the Christmas song Little Drummer Boy was composed by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone in 1958. The lyrics of Little Drummer Boy consist of no less than 21 rum pum pum pum’ – a major part of the song and therefore presenting an apparently easy [...]

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BOBAL’KI Recipe

Traditional Recipes for Holy Supper

[In case you haven't noticed, I pay attention to the searches that lead you to this blog and try to find the information you want to include here so you have one resource where you can find all this Christmas related info. I always link to the original source, that [...]

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Polish Christmas Traditions

[I am of Polish descent, specifically the Poznan region. In trying to create a meaningful Christmas for my child, I have started mining information on Christmas Traditions in Poland. I don't plan on recreating all of them but the ones that remind me of my Polish father and my childhood will probably make their way [...]

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Russian Christmas Traditions

[taken from http://russian-crafts.com/customs/christmas.html ]
Thirteen days after Western Christmas, on January 7th, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its Christmas, in accordance with the old Julian calendar. It’s a day of both solemn ritual and joyous celebration
After the 1917 [...]

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen : Lyrics

God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
In Bethlehem, in Israel,
This blessed Babe was born
And laid within a manger
Upon this blessed morn
The which His Mother Mary
Did [...]

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Alton Brown’s Eggnog Recipe

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2005

Show:
Good Eats

Episode:
School of Hard Nogs

[I love Alton Brown! We no longer get cable and I miss watching 'Good Eats'.
I haven't tried this yet, I've been meaning to, it's just so much darn easier running to the supermarket!!]

4 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar, plus [...]

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Lyrics

[While this particular song makes me cry every stinking time I hear it, It still is one of my favorites!]

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as [...]

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My Etsy Shops’ New Christmas Wrap!

I’m so excited! I’ve been looking for just the right thing and this is what I decided on
(and Santa told me he would use it on all the baby’s Christmas gifts until whenever!)
I love it!

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Family Traditions

My little one is still too young to really get excited about Christmas, so I am planning our family traditions now while he is so young in hopes that he will acquire the sense of wonder that I had when I was young. I absolutely loved Christmas preparations, decking the halls and baking so many [...]

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