christmas

Gotta eek this in before it morphs into MARCH. Time flies when you’re having fun. And also when you’re stressed out. Ha! Let’s go back to December for a minute though. Because it was a good one. We reluctantly pulled down all our Thanksgiving stuff: And turned ourselves into Christmas…

It is overwhelming to be a mother at Christmas-time. So much to gather and prepare and so many thoughts to organize in my brain. Every year it makes me appreciate my mother exponentially more. How did she calmly and quietly do so much, never asking for praise or acknowledgement? I…

To me, there is so much beauty in religion: people striving to connect with God. I think it is interesting that once we find a religion that we cherish and love, we are more apt to close out the others. I think mostly we just get comfortable. But how sad…

We watched this together for Christmas Eve last night and I loved it even more the second time around. Maybe because of Lucy’s comments delving deeper: And I always love this one that reminds me the true reason for this glorious Christmas Day: Sending lots of love and wishes for…

One of the things that rolls through my heart and mind at Christmas-time (when I stop long enough to let it), is from Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” I love to think about Mary. Who she was. The thoughts that she…

When we put away Thanksgiving and pulled out Christmas, I had Claire write my favorite Christmas saying on our little board: It’s from Matthew 6:33 where it says “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” And it’s…

I wrote about Christmas Eve (my very favorite part of Christmas) back HERE. But Christmas was pretty great too. Our biggest Christmas gift this year to our kids was that we packed up on Christmas Day and headed out on our last (last of the “lasts” 😉 family trip with…

We waited for Max to go see the temple lights too. …and got some hot cocoa to keep us warm on the way.  I mean, how else do we combat these fifty degree temps?! 🙂  Ha.  We are wimpy as can be here in the desert. Do you think that…

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!   Oh how I love new beginnings.   But I’m not really ready for the “new beginning” that is going to hit us like a truck tomorrow morning when our alarm clocks knock us into reality!   Yikes. Every single person in our family…

I love Christmas Day. But Christmas Eve is even better in my opinion. It’s chock-full of LOVE. LOVE for the Savior with the Nativity helping us remember the true meaning of Christmas, and LOVE for each other because that’s when our kids give each other their gifts. Favorite part of…