Keeping Christmas

Having a live Christmas tree in your home during the holidays can greatly enhance your holiday atmosphere with the smells of pine and the natural beauty of a freshly cut tree.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you willing... to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you;

Keeping the Twelve Days of Christmas. Everywhere we go from the end of November right up to Christmas Day, we are bombarded with Christmas music.

A note of caution: Christmas customs are hard to pin down and harder still to identify as verifiably in use during the Elizabethan era. (The past is not all the same place.)

The man accused of keeping Jayme Closs locked up in his house for three months reportedly held a family gathering Christmas Day in the same home in which he was keeping the teen imprisoned. Jake ...

In 1966 when Kwanzaa was invented by its creator, Maulana Karenga, he intended Kwanzaa to be celebrated in place of Christmas. The good news is that Kwanzaa is celebrated the day after Christmas ...

We asked tree farmers for their tips and tricks on how to keep your Christmas tree fresh through the month of December, including how to water, care for, and trim the tree.

“Are you ready for Christmas?” Whenever someone asks that question, my heartrate accelerates as I remember all the things yet to do. However, if we thought about Advent a little differently, our “getting ready” could be more of a holy time. Most of us strive to “keep Christ in Christmas ...

Bad news, folks: While you may want your fresh Christmas tree to last well into the new year, it's almost too easy to prevent that from happening. Just a few days of heat and neglect can be all it ...

The conundrum of putting it up a month early is, figuring out how to keep a Christmas tree fresh for that long! It’s quite disheartening to choose the perfect tree, decorating it just so, then have the needles fall to the ground prior to Christmas day!