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oh ho ho! week one.

Welcome! Welcome! I’m absolutely giddy with excitement! (Is that redundant?) Who cares! It’s the first week of my bloggy Christmas!

I l-o-v-e Christmas. It’s so big! You transform your house, your food, your clothes (hopefully not to light-up sweaters!), your music and even your words! It’s more than just a holiday. Christmas makes every day things seem magical.

For me, it’s Christmas books. We always had a stack of Christmas books at home when I was little. I loved flipping through them because they seemed new since we only saw them once a year. As an adult, I’ve tried to collect those great Christmas stories and keep them for my family. A new classic I discovered a few years ago is Gideon’s Gift by Karen Kingsbury.

If you’ve ever read anything by Karen Kingsbury you know she’ll make you cry and then make you want to go out and change the world! Gideon’s Gift is a short little novella. Only 12 chapters–one for each of the 12 days of Christmas. (What a great idea! When are the 12 days of Christmas anyway?!) I don’t want to tell you what it’s about because it’s so good. OK, fine…basically, it’s about a little girl with cancer and a crotchety homeless man.

This book is a part of the Red Gloves series. In each book a pair of red gloves make a cameo as an important item in the book. Why red gloves? Red is, of course, a Christmas color but it also symbolizes Jesus’ blood. And it’s with our hands, that we get to serve others and show them Jesus’ love. And because of these books (there are 4 total) people have started Red Gloves service projects–just regular people collecting red gloves for the homeless, a family giving an anonymous present of red gloves and cookies to their neighbor, or a church giving red gloves as a gifts to the community! I love this! (Maybe Lydia and I should do that this year…collect them, not make them, of course.)

Now to the fun part– I’m giving away Gideon’s Gift to one lucky reader! All you have to do is leave me a comment and let me know your favorite Christmas book or story. (Because I’d love to find some more fun books!) I’ll randomly draw a winner…or will I draw a random winner? Anyway, on Friday, November 9th, I’ll announce the winner!

If you’d like an extra entry, just put my yummy oh! ho! ho! button on your blog somewhere and let me know!

Thanks so much for playing. I’ve got more fun stuff planned, so check back! And Happy oh! ho! ho! to you!

Comments

  3. My favorite Christmas story is Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. There’s nothing better than Tiny Tim’s last line.

    *sigh*

    I love Christmas.

  4. It’s A Wonderful Life…my favorite Christmas Story. It just isn’t Christmas without it. I never fail to get teary at the end, either. It is wonderful! Oh, please check out my blog…I’ve put your cute little Christmas button up. And, just to let you know, I am in Australia now, but do have an American address. I’ll be home for the holidays! 🙂 I’m so excited about your Bloggy Christmas!

  5. Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree came by special delivery. Full and fresh and glistening green, it was the biggest tree he’d ever seen!

    🙂

  7. I am going to have to say 2 different stories, even though I know I have more! For movies, my favorite is Miracle on 34th Street. And for books, I’d have to say The Crippled Lamb, since I love reading it to my children.

  8. I think my favorite Christmas story is just the real Christmas story from the Bible. 🙂 That’s the one we read together every Christmas. 🙂

  10. Any book can be my favorite. Sorry-I’m no help there.
    I tried so hard to put your button on my sidebar, but the picture doesn’t come up for me. I’ll try it again, and you go see if you can see it. Let me know. I did do a post linking to ya! 😉
    Enter me for the book-this is one I haven’t read. I {heart} KK!!

  11. oooo, I love Christmas, too! I’ve been trying to decide exactly when all my Christmas stuff can sstart coming out – since I’m thinking it will take me a while to get it all done this year (being almost 8 mths pregnant!)…

    I think my all time favorite Christmas book is The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. My favorite story, though, is the original Christmas story in the Bible – to see how much the Lord loves us is amazing!

    I’ve put your button on my blog: http://lmillasnewthing.blogspot.com

  12. Oh I love Christmas! I started listening to the carols last week!!! LOL!! My favorite Christmas story is the classic tale – ‘Twas the night before christmas! 🙂

  15. One of my fav. Christmas books to read is one that my kids like, its called The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg.
    I also like Its A Wonderful Life.

  17. We always get together and read the true Christmas story from the Bible…And that’s my absolute favorite! I’ve never read Gideon’s Gift, but it sounds like an awesome read! Thanks for the chance to win!

  19. Amanda,
    I put your button on my latest post yesterday!
    My favorite Christmas book is by Max Lucado called The Christmas Candle. I got it at the library last year and loved it. It’s a short book too, I finished it in about an hour!

  20. Oooh! Please enter me! A favorite Christmas book that my girls and I enjoy is Alabaster’s Song by Max Lucado.

    Thanks for hosting this contest. I’m including your oh ho ho thingy on my sidebar under “Links.”

    (If you email me, you’ll have to remove NOSPAM before sending.)

  21. I have two favorites, both I’m going to look up on ebay or amazon today LOL

    It’s a Wonderful Life and a Christmas Story.

    please enter me, I also added your button to my side abr! thanks

  22. Thanks for sharing about the Red Gloves Series; I have seen the books before, but I have never picked them up. This sounds like a series that I “need” to read. I love stories like these. 🙂

    I too, have recently started a tradition of keeping good reads for my family as well. One of my favorite books is a small book about how to do simple things for CHRISTmas that cost nothing(or very little), but mean so much. (I can’t remember the title…sorry. It was available through Focus on the Family.) It includes things like: smiling, saying Merry CHRISTmas to everyone you meet, telling someone what they mean to you…the very basics, but POWERFUL reminders about loving others.

    Thanks for the entry to your contest!

    Be BLESSED!

  25. I’d love to win, so count me in! My favorite Christmas story is “The Christmas Story.” I love all the classic cartoon movies, too! I have tried since yesterday to post your button on my blog & the picture doesn’t come up. I’ll keep trying!!!

  26. I always enjoyed “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, a sweet story about sacrificial giving. I’ve put your button up on my blog.

  27. My kids favorite story is “OLIVE, the Other Reindeer!”

    I’ve put your button up!
    Please put my name in. This book sounds like a wonderful way to start the Holiday Season off.

  30. Favorite Christmas Story- The Gift of the Magi

    Favorite Christmas Movie- Little House on the Prairie: Christmas at Plum Creek

    Ironically, both the same basic plot which I didn’t even realize until this moment. I cry every year when I watch that Christmas episode!

  33. the 12 days of christmas are the days from chirstmas to epiphany, when the three wise men come …..

    i LOVE christmas books too…

    and…best of all, christmas comes early to you, cause you’ve won a gift on my blog ….. come over and see …. elizabeth

  34. wait!!
    i forgot to tell you my favorite christmas book …or one of my recent faves anyway….is the handmaid and the carpenter by elizabeth berg …… i loved it last christmas …..

  35. My favorite Christmas book is “Christmas is a Gift” by Chris Shea. It is a tiny little gift book, and the drawings are so cute!
    Love your contest!

  36. I have to be honest, I can’t think of a favorite christmas book that I like, but I love Santa’s Scrapbook for kids. It is really nice book for kids to look through!

  38. I put your button on my sidebar:)

    Obviously, the REAL Bible story is the best, but I like all the rest too. And the movies. I box all of our holiday movies and books up after the holidays and bring them out when we put up the tree Thanksgiving afternoon:) I LOVE having the tree up! We watch It’s A Wonderful Life while we decorate. The boys like all the Santa Clause movies, and the cartoons. On Christmas Eve we start watching The Christmas Story on TNT:) Thanks!

  39. My favorite Christmas books are “No Holly for Miss Quinn” and “Great Expectations”. Iknow the last one is wierd but in high school we did a big unit right at Christmas time on this book and every year I think of it and want to reread it to get in the Christmas mood. 🙂
    Enter me please.

  41. Hi Amanda,
    My favorite Christmas story( well it is really a movie but I bet there is a book too) Is the Christmas Story movie. It comes on at Christmas eve for exactly 24 hours and we leave it on the tv and don’t turn it off or change it all 24 hours. If I had to pick a book, I would pick The Christmas Box. I put your button on my page too .

  42. Picking a favorite is definitely hard…I love Christmas and all it’s traditions. I have to say that I love Miracle on 34th street…the revised version. I also love watching the Veggie Tales the Toy that Saved Christmas with my kids.

    As for books….so many. IT’s a tradition for us to read the night before Christmas on Christmas Eve…I love that!
    Thanks

  46. Wow, it is really hard for me to pick a favorite Christmas story! I love so many, but I think I’ll go with two of my faves: The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Silver Packages. Silver Packages is based on a train that comes through my area each December (remote Appalachia). If you don’t know it, you must check it out!! It is by Cynthia Rylant.

  48. I can’t recall reading any Christmas storybooks (gasp!). Maybe I can if I win!! (hint hint, pick me!). But if movies count, I love It’s A Wonderful Life. 🙂

  49. The Night Before Christmas. I buy almost every version I find. I love books and Christmas books are my favorite. I love the illustrations, the comfort they bring…everything. Please enter me!

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