Announcing the Fourth Annual Carnival of Christmas

UPDATE: The Carnival of Christmas, 2008, is NOW POSTED!

FEATURED POST THROUGH DECEMBER FIRST: PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR NEWER POSTS

This will be the fourth Carnival of Christmas, which was started in 2005 by Adam Graham. He very graciously permitted me to host it last year, and I am honored to continue the tradition.

Here is the general premise: I am calling for submissions from bloggers for their posts which celebrate the joy of this season. Family memories, favorite recipes, Christmas stories, meditations on the birth of Christ, thoughts on how to focus on the true meaning of the season vs. commercialism, and so on. I will happily include Hanukkah posts as well, or even Kwanzaa, so long as everyone remembers to focus on the joy and love and wonder of the season.

I would ask that anyone who sends in a post for inclusion in the Carnival please be respectful of these guidelines; I will not accept political posts, diatribes, or any commercial-type articles. Take a look at last year's Carnival, the one from 2006, or the first one, and you'll have an excellent idea of what the Carnival is all about.

Some things I would love to have - and for which I will give proper credit, of course - are Christmas-themed photos that I can pepper through the post (as I did last year), as well as some more Christmas music entries.

Hard deadline for submissions to the Carnival is December 23rd, and I plan to post the Carnival here on CatHouse Chat sometime on Christmas Eve. At the moment, I do NOT have access to the Blog Carnival account, so please send submissions to my blog e-mail: cathousechat -at- gmail -dot- com (with the proper modifications, of course!). Please note: that e-mail is NOT the e-mail on the right column; I need to keep the Carnival e-mails separate so I can keep track of them properly.

Finally, I would ask that my blog friends help me out and promote the Carnival whenever they can; I had a glorious response last year, and would love to make it an even bigger Carnival this year!

All right? Great! Now, let's get those Christmas-themed posts coming!