Dewey's Treehouse: Christmas Past, Christmas Present(s)

Making it Christmas (2012)

Christmas Books Quiz 2012

Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs (ongoing through December)

Plans for Presents (Family Keep Out)

A Month of Favourite Holiday Books

2011 Christmas Book Quiz
2009 Book Quiz
2006 Book Quiz
"The Homeschoolers' Christmas"
What Christmas Is: From the Mind of a Kindergartner

Our Global Advent Calendar, 2006
All Kinds of Advent Posts

Gift Baskets. More ideas here.
Making Stuff, 2010
"December Is" posts, 2009
"A Non-Stupid Christmas"
"Keep it Simple, Sisters"
"Christmas is Only Beginning"
"Christmas is About Grace," 2008
"Grace in Shepherds Abiding", 2007
"Play it Again, Eric"
"What a Six-Year-Old Wants for Christmas," 2007
"Frugal Christmas," 2006
"Favourite Things at Christmas," 2005

"What to Give to the Strugglehards, 1886"

Remembering Christmas 2011. Also here. And here. More decorations here.
Remembering Christmas 2009.
2007: The Year We Broke the Rules
Gifts for 2007

Great Holiday Expectations (and keeping your sanity), from 2007
Favourite Treehouse Ornaments
Glitzy Gift Sacks, 2008

Cookies 2010, with links
A Cookie Roundup, 2009
All Kinds of Cookie Posts!
Christmas Day Lunch

Carols and Hymns

New Year's Eve Posts
New Year's Day Posts
Epiphany Posts

Mama Squirrel's Reading List 2013 (R means rereading, § means done)

The King Arthur Trilogy, By Rosemary Sutcliff §
The Herb of Grace, by Elizabeth Goudge §
The Divine Comedy: III. Paradise, translated by Sayers and Reynolds
Over My Dead Body, by Rex Stout §
Champagne for One, by Rex Stout §
The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder §
Through a Glass Darkly, by Jostein Gaarder §
The Fields of Noon, by Sheila Burnford
No Little People, by Francis Schaeffer
Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr
"An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit," by George Meredith (free online)
MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book, by John Rember
Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford
How to Read a Poem (and fall in love with poetry), by Edward Hirsch
When I Whistle, by Shusako Endo §
The Wormling #1: The Book of the King, by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry §
"Training of the Imagination," by James Rhoades (free online) §
Towards a Philosophy of Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
School Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, by Barbara Reynolds §
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, by David Coomes §
The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner (R) §
Euthyphro, by Plato §
Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton §
Greybeards at Play, by G.K. Chesterton §
The Trees of Pride, by G.K. Chesterton §
St. Peter's Fair, by Ellis Peters §
Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart, by Ellis Peters §
The Skeleton in the Clock, by Carter Dickson §
The Chinese Nail Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
The Chinese Lake Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
Till Death Do Us Purl, by Anne Canadeo §
Heaven Preserve Us: A Home Crafting Mystery, by Cricket McRae §

On the Treehouse fridge

"To try to teach literature by starting with the applied use of words, or 'effective communication', as it's often called, then gradually work into literature through the more documentary forms of prose fiction and finally into poetry, seems to me a futile procedure. If literature is to be properly taught, we have to start at its centre, which is poetry, then work outwards to literary prose, then outwards from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life."--Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination