Holiday Giveaway – Sneak Peek – Advent Fun!
Welcome to my December News, Clues, and Reviews Newsletter!
Holiday Giveaway!
This month, my giveaway is exclusively for Newsletter Subscribers!
Only available until December 8th to ensure delivery by Christmas!
Charting the Course is a fun, high-seas adventure, set during the week between Christmas and New Years, so it’s a perfect last minute gift to give!
To enter, just leave a message of your favorite Christmas tradition.
A Sneak Peek!
As a little gift, I’m sharing the opening scene from my upcoming book, Ultimate Blindside. Yep, Jake and Sophie have an all-new adventure coming soon! Click HERE for the preview.
Advent Fun!
Looking for ways to make this advent a little more meaningful? I have two suggestions.
First, visit CatholicTeenBooks.com for our online Advent Calendar. Each day, just click on the day’s number to receive a special gift from one of our authors. We’ve got some fun items such as stories, music, recipes, printable, and games.
Second, I recently wrote a review of 10, Christmas faith-based books for teens. You can find the review HERE.
The Gift of Faith!
You can find all my books HERE. And, just a reminder, if you’ve enjoyed my stories, a wonderful gift you could give to me would be a review or to share with a friend!
Until Next Year – Happy Reading!
My favorite Christmas tradition even though my kids are adults now is filling a personalized stocking for everyone.
How fun to find special items for each person.
My favorite Christmas tradition in our family is our Christmas Eve walk around the neighborhood to see all the decorations. If a child is among us, one adult will carry a jingle bell hidden in a pocket. As we near the end of our walk, the little bell is secretly jingled and the child is informed that the sound means that Santa is nearby and that little ones better get into bed quickly! Works every time!
Oh, that is so sweet!
To win my favorite Christian Tradition is putting up the Nativity and on Christmas Day with family and friends we sing happy birthday 🎂 to Jesus
Hope I Win
I love that you sing Happy Birthday to Jesus – so sweet!
Favorite Tradition is going with family, friends and neighbors to midnight Christmas Eve mass/church services.
I’ve only done midnight Mass once – it was a truly special event!
My favorite tradition is family get together Christmas morning and the excitement for the children
Experiencing the beauty of the season through the eyes of children is such a sweet blessing!
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is when all of my family drive around to look at Christmas decorations. Merry Christmas!
The lights are always so magical!
Playing cards with my family. We can get pretty competitive
Haha! Do you have a specific game you play?
My favorite tradition is reading from Luke 2 on Christmas Eve. Thank you for the opportunity. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. God bless you.
Thanks for sharing! I’m enjoying reading all the traditions!
Picking just one is hard! Singing ‘Silent Night’ by candlelight at church on Christmas Eve, making Jesus’ birthday cake with my kids for His party after church, and eating by candlelight each night in December – they’re all really important to me.
Yes, the season is filled with so many special traditions! I love the idea of eating by candlelight!
My favorite Christmas tradition is collecting new ornaments each year that represent the year we have had. This year, we added an engagement one for our oldest son and a college one for our youngest!
We do that as well – it’s so fun each year to remember all the milestones!
The little ones in my home have always been allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve.
How fun – I’m sure they look forward to it all day!
My favorite Christmas tradition is preparing a traditional Slovak Christmas Eve Feast, then going to midnight mass.
Oh, that sounds delicious! Wonderful to keep family traditions alive!
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with all the ornaments from years past.
Those old ornaments bring back so many memories!
Church on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve service is a special one – all the carols and families!
Christmas dinner with family.
What special memories you’re creating!
My favorite Christmas transition is going to the Celebration of the Nativity and Christmas Eve service at church.
Such a beautiful service!
Dressing up in Christmas shirts and silly head gear every Christmas
haha! That sounds fun!
My favorite tradition is to go to church on Christmas Eve.
The perfect tradition!
My favorite Christmas tradition is arranging a plate of cookies and milk for Santa after Christmas Eve Mass.
That’s sweet! Do you leave anything for the reindeer, too?
My favorite Christmas tradition is counting down the days with our hanging Santa advent calendar.
Advent calendars are always fun. It’s cute to see the kids so excited to count down the day!
We’re going to a relative’s house on Christmas Eve for the day and seeing relatives that we haven’t seen in a while.
That sounds wonderful – gathering with extended family is so special.
Christmas Dinner with my family is my favorite tradition at Christmas,
I’m sure you have special foods you enjoy every year, as well.
My favorite Christmas tradition is candle lit Christmas midnight Mass! We also open our Christmas gifts after Mass in the middle of the night!
Oh, what a special time to open gifts! A candle lit Mass would be so beautiful!
Christmas Eve gingerbread man contest. We pick out of a jar a famous person and decorate the gingerbread to look like the person we drew out. It’s hilarious and so fun!!
Oh my goodness, that sounds hilarious! I’d actually love to see these!
My favorite tradition is the Advent wreath lighting at dinner with prayer and song, saying Night prayers with the tree lights on and the normal overhead lights off, and just having carefree timeless with the kids and hubby celebrating how great our Lord is!
Sounds like a beautiful tradition!
Driving around and looking at all the decorated houses.
We always enjoyed that when the kids were younger!
Just getting together and catching up with family and grandchildren
Family is the best!
Christmas Tradition. Seeing all the beautiful displays with family.
Yes – all those Christmas lights are fun to see!
my favorite is making tamales with my mom and sister
That sounds delicious!
My favorite Christmas tradition is putting Baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas morning,
What a sweet tradition!
Thank you all for participating! It was so much fun reading all the comments and the fun and meaningful holiday traditions!
I entered everyone’s name into the randomizer to select a winner – congratulations Crystal Stewart!
Join me next year for more giveaways! Thank you all so much for your interest in my work and have a very blessed Christmas!
Leslea