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Yes, we absolutely celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n

Khaled and I had our first official date on Christmas Cookie Weekend.\u00a0 Normally, you wouldn\u2019t think much about that fact, but the truth is that I told him we needed a Christmas tree in his apartment not more than two weeks afterwards, and we went out and bought one.\u00a0 The next weekend we were up at Bronners\u2019 Christmas Wonderland buying our name ornaments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the rest of my post from last year over at Christmased.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, we absolutely celebrate Christmas. Khaled and I had our first official date on Christmas Cookie Weekend.\u00a0 Normally, you wouldn\u2019t think much about that fact, but the truth is that I told him we needed a Christmas tree in his apartment not more than two weeks afterwards, and we went out and bought one.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2860,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[24,31,53,60,84,94,113,175,182,213,219,237],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-in-the-house","category-personal","tag-acceptance","tag-american-muslim","tag-children","tag-convert","tag-eid","tag-family","tag-good-vibe","tag-muslim","tag-non-muslim","tag-religion","tag-revert","tag-spiritual"],"yoast_head":"\nJust In Case You Were Wondering...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yes, we absolutely celebrate Christmas. 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