We recently finished a delightful week of Thanksgiving/Christmas celebrations with our family. We loved having everyone here. For me, there is nothing like “eyeball to eyeball” time, hugging and laughing in person. I soak it into my soul. I especially enjoy this every other year tradition in our family – when we combine Thanksgiving and Christmas. [...]
Welcome to December and the Holiday Season. I dearly love Christmas and celebrate all month long. But the season also carries with it a lot of extra things we want to do – decorating, cooking, shopping, wrapping, concerts, gathering with family and friends. It can end up being a super-busy and stressful as well as a [...]
As I write this, Christmas is just 2 days away, I am battling Long COVID, but excited for our extended family celebration time to come. There are few things as precious to me as eyeball-to-eyeball Family Time - playing together, cooking together, talking together, laughing together, sharing life together. I soak it into my soul. In [...]
A question – what difference does Christmas make to you? It’s important to think about... As I write this, Christmas is just 3 days away, I am battling a bad cold, and grateful that the COVID tests I’ve taken every couple days have been negative. But it has been a month of joy – especially singing [...]
It’s been quite a year for me - health challenges and then a great resolution of those challenges as I diligently followed the Whole30 Program. It was amazing to see the dizziness difficulties disappear. I also loved writing the blogposts on the DISC Adult to Child and Adult to Teen Series, sharing the Strengths, Struggles and [...]
It's been a delightful week of Feasting and Gratitude. Our gathering of 24 extended family spanned from the youngest at 2 years old to our eldest at 97. It included the watching of football and playing of football and a ridiculous number of pies. My children and husband kept telling me, "You're making too many pies!!" [...]
