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Top 5 Things To Do With Your Old Christmas Cards
Even though it’s 107 degrees out today, I can think about Christmas in July. It makes the fact that I can’t get my house below 80 degrees all the more bearable. That being said, what do you do with your old Christmas cards? You know, the ones you aren’t using anymore. Whether you got your cards from Storkie or from the store, there is just so much you can do beside throwing away that old Christmas card.
1. My first recommendation I actually have to give my husband’s Aunt Pat credit for. She is a teacher, and she has her students bring in old Christmas cards. They then take the Christmas card and tell a story about the picture on it. You don’t need to do this at school either! It is just as easy to do at home!
2. Make a collage with all the images. Will and Madison love to take Christmas cards and cut out the pictures. We then take those cut out pictures and glue them onto a piece of construction paper. Sometimes, we tell stories. Other times, we just have fun with it.
3. I love my friend’s Heather suggestion of making card boxes. Now, I’ve done the same with cereal boxes, and I have a feeling these card boxes are about 100 times easier to make.
4. If you have a lot of Christmas cards that have family on it, don’t throw it away. Add it your photo albums or scrapbooks. It is fun 5 and 10 years later to look at how young everybody looked! (Including your own family!).
5. Use them for a craft project like cutting the back of the card and now you have a seasonal post card or cut the Christmas card into strips. You now have bookmarks!
These are a few of the things you can do with old Christmas cards? How do you use old Christmas cards in your home?
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Wednesday’s Hero
This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Mary Ann
Wednesday Hero was started to put a face to the men and women of the American Armed Forces and what they do for us. Vary rarely has there been a member of a foreign military profiled. In fact, in the two years Wednesday Hero’s been going on it’s only been done once before. Here’s the second.
24 years old from Birmingham, England
40 Commando Royal Marines
L/Cpl Matt Croucher is not only one of the bravest men alive, he’s also one of the luckiest men alive. On the morning of February 9, 2008 L/Cpl. and his unit were searching a compound near Sangin in Afghanistan that was suspected of being used to make bombs to be used in attacks on British and Afghan troops. Walking in the darkness among a group of four men, Croucher stepped into a tripwire that pulled the pin from a boobytrap grenade. His patrol commander, Corporal Adam Lesley, remembered Croucher shouting “Grenade!”
As others dived for cover, Croucher did something nobody expected. He lay down on the grenade to smother the blast. Lesley got on the ground, another man got behind a wall, but the last member of the patrol was still standing in the open when the grenade went off.
“My reaction was, ‘My God this can’t be real’,” said Lesley. “Croucher had simply lain back and used his day sack to blunt the force of the explosion. You would expect nine out of 10 people to die in that situation.” L/Cpl. Croucher was that 1/10. Not only did he survive, amazingly he only suffered shock from the blast and a bloody nose. He was saved by the special plating inside his Osprey body armor. The backpack he was wearing was thrown more than 30ft by the blast.
“I felt one of the lads giving me a top to toe check. My head was ringing. Blood was streaming from my nose. It took 30 seconds before I realized I was definitely not dead,” said L/Cpl. Croucher.
For his actions that day, L/Cpl. Croucher was in line for the Victoria Cross, the highest award for a British Serviceman, but it has yet to be awarded.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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