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Advent Day 8: Keeping the US Postal Service in business
Today’s Advent celebration is sending out holiday cards. I love holiday cards. I think I’ve saved every one I’ve received over the last decade or so. (Not that I could find them or anything, but I know...
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Advent Day 9: Light and prayer
The holidays, for all the wonderful things they can bring, can also be a really hard time for me. I pull out the glass ornaments my mother had for years and remember her. I hear Perry Como singing The...
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Advent Day 10: go to Krispy Kreme for treats
The end of November, I curled up on the couch and brainstormed ideas for Advent. I ran through the obvious ones when I asked Pat what he thought we should do. He said, IMMEDIATELY!, “Go to Krispy...
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Advent weekend, plus Monday: trees, lights (and the stomach bug)
First, let’s just say that we’ve been stricken by multiple colds and stomach bugs over the last couple of weeks — the latest round over the weekend — so it’s essentially our first Christmas miracle...
View ArticleAdvent Day 14: Uh, hmmm…
I was about to ask you if you have one of those days when nothing seems to be going right and you can’t get out the door in time or find your shoes and your cellphone isn’t charged (or you forgot it to...
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Advent Days 15 and 16: Gingerbread houses and Charlie Brown Christmas
Woah, the combination of work, family, holiday busyness is intense right now! The end-of-December trifecta, I suppose. We did manage to keep up with our Advent celebrations, though, and they continue...
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Advent Day 17: Here we come a-wrapping, among the paper so green
I love wrapping presents. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that makes me love it so. The snap of the paper? Getting to use scissors (I’m suddenly realizing a pattern here…)? Constantly loosing the...
View ArticleGoodbye Christmas, hello New Year!
Am I the only one who feels that once the hub-bub of Christmas is over, it’s time to get on with it and start the New Year? The days between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 just seem like a waste of time, like...
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Playing with our food
I’m a person who likes physical order. I like a clean house. I like having clean laundry. I like a crumb-free floor. I suppose I get this honestly, really. My mother would, every Saturday, come hell or...
View ArticleA list: My life, our life
I don’t know why, really, but I’ve resisted listing out all the things I’d like to do/accomplish/attempt in my lifetime. But the other night, as I pulled the covers close, my mind filled with all the...
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