Posts under ‘Holidays’

Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed using the feedburner link to the right.  I usually get 2 boxes of chocolate for Valentine’s Day. Are you wishing you did too?
Notice that I said “for”, not “on” Valentine’s Day. You get it now, right?
My husband goes [...]

Dear God, one day is far too short
To mark the birthday of your Son.
The sounds of bells and carols fade,
And even the tallest tapers run
Their lovely course of light.  The tree
Has had its hour, and time is swift.
Is Christmas Day now ended? No,
It lasts as long as spirits lift
In joy at mention of His name
Or [...]

By this time [10 AM] you are probably done opening presents, if you have small children.
We even have the wrapping paper cleaned up and breakfast ready to eat. [Rolls - yum!]
I pray that you have a joyous celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth.
I leave you with Ron Hamilton’s chorus from the song Born in a Manger:
Born [...]

For several years I have not saved the Christmas cards that were sent to me. [Shh, don't tell all those frugal mothers in the blogosphere!] I just didn’t know of a good use for them. Even though I hated just throwing them in the trash, that’s where they ended up about the [...]

It’s finished! Now if the kids will just leave the ornaments on.
Just for the record - I am not one of those mothers that rearranges the tree after the kids go to bed. I leave the ornaments where the kids hung them; no matter how un-perfect it looks. This was a big step for me, [...]

 Thankful may I ever be for everything that God bestows.  Thankful for the joys and sorrows, for the blessings and the blows.  Thankful for the wisdom gained through hardships and adversity.  Thankful for the undertones as well as for the melody.
Thankful may I ever be for benefits both great and small — and never fail [...]

My second child is three years old today. Truly the days are long and the years short.
I wrote the second part of this post yesterday - getting it all ready to just post today after I added a picture.
Then I had a very frustrating experience with her today and I’m ready to put her [...]