Category Archives: Life

We have a love/hate relationship with Christmas lights.  Although the kids and I look forward to setting up the various light displays, I dread checking the lights for problems.  Every year, after the season is over, I very carefully pack the working lights away and every year when we take them out, without fail, there seems to be some kind of problem.  I can’t figure it out.  How can they go from a working strand … Continue reading →

I have always loved the Christmas season with all the beautiful decorations and preparations to celebrate the most important day in history.  It’s the ultimate birthday party.  As a young girl I would listen to Christmas music year round just for the sheer joy that it created in my heart.  My daughter seems to be following in my footsteps, because I have caught her singing carols in the middle of summer.  This weekend I worked … Continue reading →

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Ours was very nice.  We had a bit of a problem with the turkey not cooking properly.  The strangest thing, after 3 ½ hours literally half the bird was cooked and the other half was not.  We put it back in the oven for another hour and still only part of it cooked.  So we ate the cooked part, which was very good and put the other … Continue reading →

Like so many other bloggers this week, we’re going to take the next few days off from the blogging world and concentrate on the Thanksgiving holiday.  There’s baking to do, and the kids are working on their special holiday skit, so there’s also scenery to complete.   I just want to wish anyone who stops by a very blessed Thanksgiving.  May God make this day a special time of reflection on all that He provides.

Well, the cold season has officially hit our home. Usually we are lucky enough that only one of us at a time gets sick, but over the course of this week the kids and I have fallen victim to runny noses and coughs.  This is my third bout with illness in the past 6 weeks, first a really bad cold, then a case of laryngitis, and now another cold.  Though there is never a good … Continue reading →