It’s nearly December, and in spite of putting up my Christmas tree two weeks ago, hanging stockings, listening to Christmas Jazz on Pandora Radio at work all day, and ordering a few Christmas presents online, I’m just not feeling it yet. Four days from now, I’m supposed to begin our countdown to Christmas and IContinueContinue reading “The Cloak of Obligation”
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Advent Day Two: Read a Christmas Book
Each year, opening the Christmas boxes releases magic in our house. The homemade ornaments, treasured angels and globes, snowmen mugs and dishes, candles, Christmas lights, stocking hangers, wreath, and so on cause eruptions of “Oh! Look at this!” from the kids, and honestly, from me, too. I find myself picking up ornaments and carrying themContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Two: Read a Christmas Book”