Tag: christmas
member name: Corina Carrasco
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December 05, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
When my kids were little, we used to drive around looking at Christmas decorations. We lived in Glendale in southern California, near Pasadena. Before the kids were born, my husband and I would drive . . .
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December 23, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
Note: This is a particularly difficult Christmas story to tell. I wrote it some years ago but I have only shared it with a very few people. It was written as an assignment for a writing . . .
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December 23, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
When my kids were in elementary school, there was a dad that would put on the Santa suit each year and he'd be driven in on a fire truck during the middle of a fire drill when the entire student body . . .
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December 21, 2008 07:18 PM EST --
Two of my favorite Christmases were when I was pregnant.
Early during my first pregnancy, I was told that my baby was due on January 15. However, during my routine visit on December fourth, the doctor . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:13 PM EST --
[This is a retelling of the traditional legend of the poinsettia. I have read many versions and have worded this one in my own words, from a number of variations on the traditional legend.] . . .
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December 16, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
This is my favorite Christmas story. It's about the night that I was born. I posted this on Gather last year and am posting it again. I'm hoping this will inspire me to write a new Christmas . . .
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December 19, 2006 02:42 AM EST --
My kids and I have always wanted to go up to the mountains to cut down our own Christmas tree but living in Los Angeles made it impractical. Truthfully, the past fourteen years have rendered only . . .
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December 15, 2006 04:06 PM EST --
Early this morning I went to the local Mexican market to get the ingredients to make tamales, which is a Christmas tradition for our family. This year, because of everyone’s schedule, we are . . .
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December 21, 2008 11:12 PM EST --
(Originally posted on my blog http://corinajoyc.wordpress.com last week.)
Growing up, we ate tamales only at Christmas and New Years. We made our own and I think that’s why we only had them . . .
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December 25, 2008 03:56 PM EST --
This is my favorite Christmas story. It’s about the night that I was born. I have posted this elsewhere over the years.
DECEMBER 25, 1955
María lay in bed exhausted, yet unable to sleep. She’d . . .
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December 18, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
My family had always had real Christmas trees, not artificial. As a child I wanted an artificial one because of the fact that we never had one. My parents would go out in the car and come back with a . . .
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December 14, 2006 12:09 AM EST --
María lay in bed exhausted, yet unable to sleep. She’d had an endless day and had just finished putting out the gifts for her four children. Tomorrow would be . . .
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