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“Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, ‘Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.’”
This reminds me…I missed last week’s episode of “The Office”! Will have to go to hulu tonight…
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This was originally posted December 16, 2008. I’m busy right now and with nothing inspirational to write, this cracked me up to reread, since most of it is still true today. Additional comments from this year have been made in red.
(I TOTALLY ripped this idea off of my funny friend Karen’s blog, so sue [...]
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Well, we’ve done it! The tree is decorated, the stockings are hung, and hot chocolate has been consumed, all while listening to some lovely Christmas carols. We even decorated outside on Saturday, despite the cold, which doesn’t happen every year but totally makes the kids’ Christmas when we do.
And I’m left feeling just [...]
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aka One of the Stupidest Things I’ve Ever Done.
Gather ’round, kids…it’s story time!
I realized as we were getting the tree out this year that I’ve never told this story on the blog, so I thought now would be a good time. And since I don’t mind humiliating myself, here goes:
When I was a kid, [...]
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Not much time here, since I’m apparently the only person I know who hasn’t decorated her house yet for Christmas! I’m working on making that happen this week, so blogging could continue to be sparse. But, here’s a quick Thanksgiving weekend recap!
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I’m the first to admit that up to this point, we have done a lousy job of teaching our children about the Advent season. We do try to talk about the season being all about Jesus and his birth and what that means for us, but we haven’t done anything tangible in the past [...]
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GIVEAWAY OVER!
You know that I love Sara’s Less Ordinary Designs personalized cards…and I know that many of you love them too, as I’ve gotten some in the mail over the last year!
Sara’s graciously offered to partner up with me again so that I can give one of YOU a free Christmas card design (or birth [...]
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What? You didn’t know that there were deleted scenes floating around?
Many thanks to my husband for thinking of this idea!
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What a fun night! Halloween* has become one of the nights of the year I most look forward to with our kids…it’s just such a fun evening for all of us, and we get to enjoy it with neighbors and my family, too.
The night started off like this:
But it got much, much better.
We had [...]
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One of the first posts I ever wrote on my blog was about how pumpkin carving started mysteriously falling under my responsibility. In my house growing up, my dad took care of this, so I assumed that Matt would be the one pulling guts out of pumpkins, but noooo. The last three years [...]
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