Tag Archives: Faith

Last week I made an important confession to you: I am a power freak. And, I think you should be too. I’m going to be perfectly honest with you...the reason I NEED the Power of the Hol...

All moms know the feeling. We get sick, we keep going. We’re tired, we keep moving. We’ve got things to do. We make a list and plow through. And through all of these, we teach our kids per...

Four years ago I made a New Year’s resolution. Normally I’m not very good at them, but this one stuck.  For the entirety of 2011 I was going to bake all of my bread from sc...

I hope that you had a very Merry Christmas! The tinsel and paper is strewn everywhere and the hustle and bustle is now over.   As we head into the New Year with new challenges and blessings ...

Today is Christmas! One of my favorite things is hearing what traditions others have on this holiday. We always ate Chinese food on Christmas Eve and I never even thought that it was odd at all. ...

Out came the Christmas decorations.  Tree.  Lights.  Ornaments.  Nativity.  Our little one was enamored with all the shiny new additions to our home.  At the time he was ...

I received a Christmas card in the mail the other day that was different than the others I had received. It asked me to reflect on some of the words heard during the Christmas season and take in what ...

This year our pocket books are super tight, we are having a family struggle and today is the anniversary of my little sister’s death 13 years ago.  Christmas time is such a joyou...

Last month, I wrote about defining who our neighbors are and the fact that I knew nothing about mine despite living in my house for so long. So, the past three weeks, I have made it a point to change ...

It was supposed to be one of those perfect kinds of Saturdays. We’d tromp through the snow, get our tree, decorate it as a family and start getting the house ready for Christmas. As the day went...