And the world continues. The clock ticks on. The days merge. The schedules begin slowly but surely, threatening to fill up once-beautiful grey days of sweet baking, mid-day cuddling, random cleaning, spontaneous card games on the living room floor, late nights watching Sound of Music, house guests returning to their regular lives …. […]
We are ringing in the new year in front of the fire, dressed in our new Christmas p.j.s with some chocolate covered snacks and Downton Abbey and maybe some Mr. Darcy. Sounds rather sad perhaps, but it is actually rather cozy. There’s no where else that I’d rather be than surrounded by my little family, […]
Three batches of sugar cookie dough rolled out on a flour-sprinkled wooden table… Special cookie cutters brought from overseas by a special godmother … butter and sugar and flour that spell out the Amazing Love of a Wonderful God… little hands, rolling, cutting and forming shapes into the most the […]
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I stepped outside this afternoon and made my way down the streets, classical Christmas carols playing on the radio in my car, messy and strewn with lost mittens, church handouts and water bottles … just a quick errand to do for our home…I knew it would be busy in town, but there was no other […]
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“Silent night … Holy night … all is calm … all is bright … This Christmas has been so quiet. Amidst the noise and the bustle of a family of seven, the never-ending Christmas carols being pounded [played sweetly] on our century old piano, the screams, laughs, giggles and protests of a […]
