It’s the day after Christmas, and my house is still. Everyone else is asleep. And I’m sitting here by the twinkle lights of my tree, thinking about the past couple months. Months of planning. Weeks of shopping and searching for just the right gifts. Hours and hours of baking and wrapping and plotting and planning. Now we’ve opened the packages and ...
I stumbled across what I wrote in my journal on December 22, 2010: Today is awesome – because today I have enough. And tomorrow will be awesome because tomorrow will be just like today! I’m thankful for the Word – it’s an anchor to my soul! The year 2010 was rough for me. We had left the church we were working at ...
How do you celebrate Christmas? What are your family’s traditions? (I have tradition that may shock you.) We open one gift on Christmas Eve, which is always fresh new pj’s. The kids dive into their stockings while we drink our coffee and wake up, and we wrap everything in those stockings so it takes a LOOOONNNNNGGGGG time. We read the Christmas ...