title: The Christmas Countdown: Creating 25 days of New Advent Traditions for Families
author:  Margie J. Harding 
description: <DIV><P>Prepare your heart and home for a meaningful Christmas. This guide provides easy-to-use devotionals with Scripture, music, food and fun family activities to prepare your heart and home--and reach out to others--in celebration of Christ&#39;s coming.</P></DIV>
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  Merry Wild West Christmas
  
  Wanda Ann Thomas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Wanda Ann Thomas
  
  Published by Wanda Ann Thomas. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction.
  The characters, incidents and dialogues in this book are of the author’s
  imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual
  events or persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  December 1892
  
  The newest young resident of the sleepy western town of Aurora, Wyoming
  stepped back from the centerpiece of the family’s collection of advent
  calendar boxes of all shapes and sizes. Josephine Hopkins folded her hands
  lest she give into the temptation to rearrange them. Again.
  
  She pivoted toward the door separating the dining room and kitchen. “I knew
  this drafty old place would feel like home once we set out the Christmas
  decorations.”
  
  Yuletide season officially started with the addition to the buffet of the
  heirloom wooden advent calendar featuring a hand-pa