It’s Almost Christmas

Christmas is the time of the year when traditions, cultures and beliefs are celebrated out in the open. It doesn’t matter if the traditions looks or sounds silly. Christmas is a reason enough for everyone to go all the way. The following are different Christmas traditions that your family might be observing or want to [...]

Advent is from Latin and means “coming”, so, in effect, it means the time before Jesus comes. The Advent period leading up to Christmas Day is counted in different ways. For churches, it is celebrated on the four Sundays before the 25th of December, while traditional children’s Advent calendars start on the 1st December. [...]

Here’s a wonderful Christmas tradition that you might have missed: the annual Christmas Bird Count or CBC. It is the oldest Citizen Science event in the world and wonderful holiday tradition.
The main goal of the Christmas Bird Count is to literally count the birds in the Northern-hemisphere in early winter for scientific purposes. However, the [...]