Ever since I became a wife and homemaker in 1997, and set up housekeeping in our first cozy, rental home, I’ve enjoy burning candles. Well, even before that I liked it. My sis and I shared a room and we had candle holders and would burn candles in the evenings, while we read our books, and many […]
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Christmas Joy
All the bells, all the balls, All the pretty colored walls, White, green, red and blue, Joyful colors for me and you! Christmastime is finally here, Such an awesome time of year! We play in snow that’s sparkly white, Sit by the fire when it’s night. Laughs and jokes and cookies too, There’s […]
A Touch of Christmas and Style for the Season
I enjoy the Christmas season. The lights and colors and hot drinks and pretty packages and nativity scenes and traditions and snacks and family and secrets and whispers and ribbon and tape and Christmas carols~to name just a few elements of the season. I also enjoy dressing for the season or putting together an outfit […]
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 […]
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 […]
Three Things:Christmas
Three things I love about Christmas… Lovely nativities… the twinkling lights… the contagious excitement of children… What is among your favorites during the Christmas season?
Wherein We Find My Favorite Books Read in 2025
One of my delights in December is reading booklists compiled by readers of their favorite books from this year of reading. I’ve read Emily P. Freeman’s and Lore Wilbert’s and Anne Bogel’s and other lists from bookstore newsletters, Insta accounts, and Substack. It’s fun to see the same titles popping up on numerous lists. Particularly […]
A Reflection on What Worked For Me in 2024
I like making lists. I like reading lists. I’ve followed a practice for a number of years held by the Modern Mrs. Darcy and Emily P. Freeman. They ask the questions “What worked for me?” “What didn’t?” Today, I’m pecking away at my keyboard to join in on this reflection. Another variation to consider in […]
Gifts, Hope, Bells, Green, Star
GIFTS December 1, 2023🎁🎀🎄 Right here.Two of the very best gifts to ever happen to me.And as funny as the “puppies” are, I don’t mean Jackie and Theodore. 😄😉It’s true. Childcare is demanding and exhausting and needy.It revealed so much in me that I really hated coming face to face with.Sad truth.If I could get […]
Our Fourth Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things
Heaven Hugging Earth What creative brilliance to paint a sky every morning and evening.A cycle of sameness, over and over.Yet unbelievably different each and every time.Every skyscape influenced by perspective and place.Running ribbons of orange and mauve, swirled strokes of gold blended with violet and aqua.Heaven hugging earth. A Christmas Miracle A Christmas miracle on […]
Journey To Bethlehem Movie Tickets Giveaway
Musicals. Live Theater. Movies. Stories.I love these works of creativity, this method of bringing messages, a way of sharing words.There are many genres or storylines that aren’t for me or don’t resonate.But for the many that don’t, other productions, do. For the ones where I am not the captive audience or ideal reader, other people […]
In Which We Have A Peripeti Home Candle Giveaway
Look what arrived along with November?! I’m delighted to share Peripeti Home candles with you. Not only do I have candles to share through our screens, Peripeti Home has partnered with us for a giveaway! Hurrah! And Ta-da!!!!Look at these two lovely fragrances they packaged with care and sent my way. Peripeti Home offers seasonal […]
A Bundle of Beauty and Books Giveaway
I love July. I always have. I’m sure this is in part because it is my birth month. As a kid, it was wonderful to have my birthday halfway through the year and Christmas in the second half. Obviously, this equates to gifts and celebrations! But I love the summer sun and the summer heat […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {December}
Friends in the Fog Sometimes the fog in the wilderness obscurs the beauty still abounding around us. At first glance a wilderness looks bleak. Feels forsaken. Even a deeper look brings confusion and lack of direction. Barrenness has a way of disorienting. Broken places pierce. Brambles, sharp with thorns, menacingly snarl.Our feet catch, knees buckle, […]
Breathing Life
What breathes life into you? What offers an exhale of refreshing? Who do you breathe easier around? Here’s one of mine: Spring of 2022 brought the formation of a Book Club Society into my life. It’s been one of my very favorite parts of this year. Life-giving + breathing joy in + delight = a […]