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Monthly Archives: December 2010
7 Quick Takes Fridays: Christmastide Edition
I hope you are enjoying the 12 Days of Christmas. Traditionally known as Christmastide, these twelve days start on December 25th and end on the evening of January 5th, Twelfth Night. The next day celebrates Epiphany, when the Magi visited … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Family, Self, Simplify
Tagged christmas cookie recipes, simple pleasures
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Wordless Wednesday: Fun with Frosty
Here is my oldest daughter having fun with her Daddy. It rarely snows in Tidewater Virginia, and NEVER this much at Christmastime. I know this will be a special memory for her. Speaking of memories, today is my Mother’s birthday. She would have … Continue reading
Why I Love Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a throughly British holiday celebrated the first workday after Christmas. In Victorian times, people would fill up small boxes with money and give them to those who helped them through the year such as merchants or their … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas to All
I wish you and your family peace and joy as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This year has been filled with many milestones for my family.
Posted in Adoption, Coping with change, Faith, Family, Friends, Money, Simplify
Tagged christmas card, christmas greetings, Gratitude
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Happy Birthday, Grandma
Today would have been my mother-in-law’s 72nd birthday. We lost her last year just before Christmas after a seven-year battle with a rare form of cancer called thymoma.
Posted in Adoption, Coping with change, Family
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Wordless Wednesday: Christmas Cookie Tray
A sampling of our cookie tray: Top: Scotch Shortbreads Middle: Thumbprint Cookies Bottom: Chocolate Spritz (cut into circles instead) Side: Toffee-Nut Bars What’s your favorite Christmas cookie recipe? For more Wordless Wednesdays, click here.
Cookies of Christmas: Toffee-Nut Bars
This is our last week in the series, the 12 Cookies of Christmas, as we baked our way through my Mom’s Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook she received as a wedding present in 1959. Some of these recipes were holiday favorites in … Continue reading
How was your day, honey?
Since I became a parent five years ago, making the time and finding the energy to enrich and develop my marriage has been a struggle for me. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have a great husband and I love him deeply. And … Continue reading
7 Quick Takes Friday Volume 24
For more Quick Takes, please check out Jennifer at the Conversion Diary. 1. We are having a wonderful Advent. Thanks to our cool Advent calendar activity set, we are learning every day about the journey of Mary and Joseph from Nazareth and the … Continue reading
