{"id":464,"date":"2013-07-08T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:57:44","slug":"christmas-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/christmas-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">My sweet Canadian blogging friend and author, Katharine Barrett, is holding Christmas in July on her blog \u00a0all month! One of the books she wrote, a devotional, \u00a0&#8220;Walking To Bethlehem&#8221; was the inspiration for this little foretaste of Christmas to come. I&#8217;m thrilled, because there&#8217;s nothing like a little taste of Christmas in the middle of summer! Break out the hot chocolate and the gingerbread, light a fire and I&#8217;m there!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Please visit her here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katharinesthoughts.net\/2013\/07\/christmas-in-july\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" src=\"images\/1017345_10200919278840759_325606932_n.jpg\" alt=\"1017345 10200919278840759 325606932 n\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Several of us will be contributing throughout this month and if you click on the pic up there you will get a preview of the treats you will find. Oh and there might be a surprise at the end of the month!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">On\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dancingonthedash.wordpress.com\">Wednesday<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0my friend, Lorretta Stembridge (she&#8217;s a Georgia Girl) will be talking about traditions over on her site. But to get you started on the road, Katharine has written a little something that she learned about traditions\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katharinesthoughts.net\/2013\/07\/do-your-traditions-reflect-who-you-are\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We started a new tradition in our family a couple of years ago. On Christmas Eve Eve (December 23) one year I invited the two oldest g&#8217;kids who live here in town to spend the night. We stayed up late, read lots of Christmas Stories, watched a Christmas Video, listened to Carols all through the night, and wrapped a few presents. We stared at the tree and I told them the stories behind some of the ornaments on the tree. The next morning they helped me make Christmas Pancakes-Gingerbread Man shaped. We had so much fun, they asked if we could do it again and we did. Now we have a new tradition just like that!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sweet Canadian blogging friend and author, Katharine Barrett, is holding Christmas in July on her blog \u00a0all month! One of the books she wrote, a devotional, \u00a0&#8220;Walking To Bethlehem&#8221; was the inspiration for this little foretaste of Christmas to come. 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