On holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the 4th of July, we (the Coghlans) all sit at the table and discuss why we celebrate. Dad always tells us that we don't actually know the date of Christ's birth. The reason we celebrate Christmas on December 25th is that on December 25th there was a pagan holiday. So the apostles said, "Hey guys. How about instead of doing that, you celebrate this!" And they said, "Yeah!" I'll have to say my favorite Christmas story is called, "Christmas Every Day." It's about a little girl writing a letter to the "Christmas fairy." She asks her to make it Christmas every day. So the first Christmas comes. Then the next morning her brothers and sisters rushed into her room, woke her up, and said, "It's Christmas again! There's a bunch of presents in the library!" The little girl was so excited! She got up and ran down to the library. And her wish had come true! but after about 100-200 Christmases everyone got tiered of it! So the little girl even though she did not want to sound ungrateful wrote to the "Christmas fairy" and asked her to stop Christmas! So she did.

I think that my sisters and I finally figured out what Texas snow is. The other day we were burning a fire and there was a whole bunch of newspaper and the ashes from the newspaper were flying up in the air. "Look Texas snow!" said Lydia.

I think that cold in Texas is like a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips.
Because you get a lot of the cold but absolutely NO snow!

Kaitlyn

P.S. My mom likes it with no snow that's one of the reasons we moved here. She also prefers her chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate chips. She likes to eat the chocolate chips plain.

The curious discovery was a kiddy pool. That looks like fun we all thought so we started playing with it my aunt Carlie did not care though. The little kids were playing that it was there "club" the under pool walk club when they told me I said "Ooooh" then walked away and told Mom she laughed we had a nice vistit and after we were done playing out side we tryed to take a picture but everyone was tyered and gruby.

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