I love getting in the holiday spirit long before Christmas arrives. I can remember as a child anxiously awaiting my favorite holiday shows to be aired on television and playing my Christmas records to make it festive.
Veggie Tales has the perfect Christmas collection for your family this year. The Ultimate Christmas Collection has 6 holiday favorites and 25 songs sung by the Veggie Characters on a CD.
Even though they are made for kids, as an adult, I gain a lot of entertainment from them. I find the stories so touching and such a wonderful reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. There is plenty of humor in this collection and I found myself chuckling more than a few times while watching.
I have to admit one day last week I was getting a little anxious about the holidays and all the things to bake, decorate and buy. I could feel the stress taking hold. I sat down and watched the DVD selections in this volume and loved the messages they held. Once again I was reminded that Christmas was all about giving and showing love. It certainly isn’t about buying the biggest and best present but being together as a family and celebrating the day for the greatest gift given us by God, his son.
All the stories on the DVD set of stories are great but I particularly loved the story of ‘It’s A Meaningful Life.’ So often I think we all have experienced moments where we just don’t feel or were robbed our path in life and consider “What If”. This story brings everything back into perspective and uplifts. It is a wonderful reminder that God directs our steps and has the best plan for us.
To add to the festivities of the season, The Veggie’s serenade and kick off the season with 25 wonderful songs including Oh Christmas Tree, Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Greensleeves and 22 more of your favorite Christmas Classics. Singing along with the Veggie Tales is a wonderful way for children to learn the lyrics of the songs and get into the holiday spirit.
Playing this CD while the grand kids are here and while we bake cookies, prepare holiday favorite foods or decorate together builds the memories and closeness of family. Thanks to the Veggie Tales you too may add extra memories in your holidays with their DVD.
about gracehodgin
Grandma Blogger encouraging grand parents to remain active in the lives of their grand children and to inspire imagination and creativity.
When Grace is not writing articles for her blog then she morphs into GracieLoo and is off to ZombieZoo where she is the resident Grandma who hands out cookies, kisses, band-aids for booboos and reads stories to her beloved ZombieZoo Residents.
My favorite holiday tradition is the reading of the story of Jesus’ birth on Christmas Eve.
My favorite tradition is attending midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
spending xmas eve with my family!
My favorite tradition is putting up the tree to Christmas music and baking cookies with my family.
Opening one present on Christmas Eve and driving to see Christmas lights.
We do not have a Holiday Tradition , we do need one though
Currently, it’s simply opening the gifts christmas morning 
I love taking a family photo in front of the tree each year.
having a football game.
All the family getting together Christmas Eve and opening presents from each other.
We live next door to my brother and sister-in-law, so each Christmas morning we carry our gifts down. Their living room is huge, so my parents and families come over too, and we all have a HUGE breakfast. Grits, cinnamon rolls, different kinds of eggs, sausage, fruits, you name it! We all sit around and enjoy each other for a while before we open things. It’s wonderful.
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spending time with family
I really enjoy cooking a feast for everyone and watching them eat till their heart is content
As a family we enjoy sitting by the fire on Christmas Eve with new pajamas and hot chocolate and watching It’s A Wonderful Life.
Putting up the Christmas tree together.
Spending time with Family.
Goulash dinner on Christmas Eve with family/friends, then late Mass with my husband and son.
fav is opening gifts with family
Driving around looking at christmas lights.
Watching Christmas movies and baking!
baking cookie and trimming the tree with my children
I like decorating for Christmas
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going black friday shopping!
Getting together with the entire family and having a big meal.
I love going to the Farm picking out a tree with all the gbabies & children. Cutting it down, and bringing it home to decorate. This is my favorite tradition.
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i love spending time with my family expecialy because im have a new addition for the holidays
We spend Christmas day dressed up as an elf(me) and a clown(hubby and whatever grandkids come w/us). We serve a turkey dinner to mentally and physically developmentally disabled people and have a big party! Live band after dinner and we dance w/everyone and they take turns singing parts of requested songs into the mic themselves. It is ABSOLUTELY my favorite new tradition we have (only 4 years, but I hope I never have anything else to do on Christmas Day!)
my favorite Christmas tradition is going to Christmas eve service with my husband and our 5 children then afterwards going to look at Christmas lights together, its just such a great tradition and just a great way to spend with the family singing Christmas carols and enjoying, the beauty of the lights and family:)
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Building a snow man!
I am the oldest of 3. We are all in our 30′s now and married. We still all spend the night at my parents house on Christmas Eve and we play fun games, eat great food, and my mom passes out matching pajamas for the girls and guys:)
Family Photo on Christmas Day
buying present and wrapping them
Family being together.
I love decorating the tree.
Spending time with all the extended family – the more the better.
I love that we decorate the tree as a family!
Cutting down the Christmas tree and having a huge pot of stew while decorating the tree!! I cant wait!!
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Opening gifts with all of my family around me.
decorating the tree
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my fav. christmas tradition is watching ruldolph the red nosed reindeer with my family the night before christmas
My favorite tradition is making baked apples every Christmas morning.
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Choosing a Christmas tree and decorating it together as a family.
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going to get the tree
Spending Time with family
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Spending Christmas with my family
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Spending Christmas with family and friends at parties and dinners
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parents open gifts first
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Frosting cookies with my children!
I like our tradition of having a big lamb dinner on Christmas Eve.
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making christmas cookies
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Christmas caroling and spending time with family.
We love to open our stockings on Christmas eve.
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cutting down the tree the day after thx gvung
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Leaving milk and cookies out for Santa!
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Driving around looking at the Christmas lights.
Decorating the tree
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decorating the tree
Driving around looking at Christmas lights is one of my favorite traditions.
the big holiday dinner!
lighting of the tree!
Putting up the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving day!
Going to our church’s candlelight service
baking and decorating with my kids
Our favorite tradition is opening new pajamas and reading the Night before Christmas on Christmas eve
One Holiday tradition in our family is to bake cookies together & hand them out to our neighbors.
I like making gingerbread men!
Midnight mass.
Making cookies for Santa
I love picking out the tree.
I love the decorating, sewing/craft making and eating. LOL
Baking and cooking and reflecting on the meaning of the holiday
I love decorating the tree with my kids.
we love to bake goodie baskets for family and friends on christmas eve
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We go out the first week of December and cut down a Christmas tree on our property. We only cut down unhealthy trees so it’s always an adventure looking for one.
Baking cookies with the family!
Fasting on Christmas Eve until dinner eating no meat on that day
Decorating the tree together!
Putting up the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving dinner.
We like driving around to look at Christmas decoration lights.
spending time with family!
We have two traditions, the first is; on Christmas Eve we get together and cook a dinner and we sit down and watch a Christmas movie! The other is that my kids get a new ornament every year for Christmas.
Decorating the trees together
waking up christmas morning, sitting around the tree in our jammies and watching each and everyone open their gifts, one by one
We usually watch It’s A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve and open one of our gifts.
Opening one present on Christmas eve
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about movies for
kids. Regards