Hello to family and fun and laughter and playing with cousins! Hello to togetherness and hello to time to go home. Hello to too many miles and hello to the ability to travel. Hello to my family all spending Christmas in Kansas with us! Hello to Legos and hours spent playing. Hello to kiddos bundling […]
After Christmas Sale at Lilla Rose
After Christmas Sale!! Today only, December 26, Lilla Rose is offering 10% off everything and FREE shipping if you spend $24. If you’ve been wanting to try a flexiclip from Lilla Rose or add to your collection, now is a great time. I really like my flexi-clips and I also like my hair bands […]
I Want To See The Baby
Gazing at the Baby in the Manger I want to see the baby in the manger, yes, I do, I want to gaze upon him with a child’s eyes and view, I want to see him all wrapped up in his swaddling clothes, I want to gaze upon his little fingers and his toes, I […]
Christmas Touches
Some of the touches of Christmas around here! Baby cousins to hold!! Precious sweet. A dear Lego nativity on display on my coffee table, built by my son, of course! Nativity Lots of good help wrapping up presents and parcels! Pretty Packages! O Come Let Us Adore Him! Christ the Lord! Bring your gifts of […]
Christmas Shopping
It’s here, the Christmas shopping time of year! I love Christmas, I love giving gifts, and I even love opening gifts. I don’t always love coming up with gift ideas. We are so burdened aren’t we? We all have so much “stuff”, we don’t know what to gift someone with. 🙂 Or I find that many […]
A Great Giveaway Coming Soon…and a Giveaway Winner!
Announcing the winner of The Confident Mom 2013 Planner! Shannon F., you won! Hooray! You should be receiving an e-mail! Shannon F. says: November 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM I’m the least organized person I know so I would love to win this! Thanks for the chance! If you didn’t win and you’d like […]
Bags and an Italian Measure Pitcher
I brought home some really cute bags after Christmas! My mother gave this one to me and it came from Sew a Fine Seam. Red is one of my favorite colors and this bag holds a lot and is easy to grab. I’m loving it! This one is also from Sew a Fine Seam and my […]
Three Things:Family Togetherness
Three things I love about being with family over the holidays… the jokes and laughter…watching cousins play together…eating,chatting,relaxing… Three things I wish we had a maid for… the cooking…the dishes…the laundry… What do you love about family togetherness?!
Some of the Fun,New Things Showing Up At Our House That Arrived in the Form of Gifts
Christ, Our Savior Is Born!
Blessed Christmas!
Nativity
Luke 2:9-12 And lo the angel of the Lord, came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not:for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day […]
A Visit from the Christ Child
Twas the morning of Christmas, when all through the house All the family was frantic, including my spouse, For each of them had only one thing in mind, To examine the presents St. Nick left behind. The boxes and wrapping and ribbons and toys Were strewn on the floor, and the volume of noise, Increased […]
Questions for Mary
Mary, what did you think as you held your Son? The King, The Messiah, The Promised One, As you kissed His cheeks and counted His toes, The One who would save us from this world’s woes. How did He feel as you cuddled Him close? The One who would die, the One who […]
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of thee shall he come forth […]
The Story of the Birth of Jesus
An angel told Mary that she was going to have a special son from God. Then the angel went and told Joseph. Then Joseph got upset because- well I’m not sure why- and then they got married. Then Caesar Augustus charged taxes and everybody had to go where they were born. So Joseph and Mary got […]