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Christmas is a time of traditions and family. We have activities that we have done for years. Tom takes Colleen to Long Grove to shop. If I'm available I go also, and recently we have added Deer Park to our stop. The Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving. We bake sugar cookies on Christmas Eve. In addition to the cookie cutter shapes, many interesting characters have come out of our oven. We deliver fudge to our neighbors and until recently, sang them a Christmas Carol. Our dinner plans and the mass that we attend has changed depending on the year. But the one thing that has yet to change is our Christmas Craft. Each year we have created a craft, sometimes frustration occurs, but with assistance they are completed. Click on the year to see a picture of the crafts and how we made them. It starts with 1995, but we started making ornaments out of dough earlier, but those did not last.

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