and Christmas trees in Amish homes are a rarity. You will find mantels adorned with colorful Christmas cards (often homemade) and gifts are often exchanged for the holiday, but usually gifts are ...

the Amish love to wrap the gifts beautifully. They will use, shiny papers and ribbons to decorate them. They then place them somewhere special in the home, such as the hearth, until Christmas Day ...

Lovina’s Christmas table set for 42. After everyone was done eating, we put all the leftovers in a roaster to make a casserole so nothing got wasted. After brunch we all exchanged gifts ...

Andrea, 11 months, was in a booster seat, and Denzel, 6 months, was in the highchair. Family Christmas gifts and stockings waiting to be opened. As the children arrived, they were attracted to the ...

For many people, Christmas serves as a joyous celebration ... After we eat, we hand out gifts to one another, and because Amish families tend to be large, and because families often have so ...

In our Amish culture we don’t celebrate Christmas exactly like our “English ... A smorgasbord of unwrapped gifts will be on the table and whoever gets Bingo will get to choose a gift.

The author shares how her family celebrates Christmas in their Amish community in Southern Illinois. The author's mother makes Christmas special with caroling, gifts, and gatherings. The author's ...

Amish Christmas is about dialing down ... and they all are relying on holiday tourists to buy lots of gifts in the lushly holiday-decorated shops — even though the Amish themselves tend to ...