christmas

There is something about wooden spoons that gets to me. I guess any kind of beautiful wooden utensils. They are just so beautiful. (I collect wooden salad tongs if I can find them from any random place I go, and Claire and Elle have both brought me home some favorites…

After that bleary-eyed but spirit-filled Christmas Eve, we woke up to Grace’s Christmas call, her face all aglow with Christmas wonder in the mission field. She told us she had been talking to the other kids who had been up for an hour. Still so weird to sleep past the…

We left the hotel in Cancun in the wee hours of Christmas Eve morning to get home to Elle and Carson who were arriving a couple hours before us. That light in the Houston airport (layover) was so incredibly beautiful bringing in that holy day. We arrived to our rainy,…

Do you ever feel a little let-down after Christmas? It was all so fast and I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that it’s in our wake already. Nutty. While I’m trying to organize all my pictures, I wanted to share two of my very favorite Christmas…

Someone quoted Isaiah 9:6 in church the other week and it made my heart swell when I looked over and saw both Lucy and Claire mouthing the words. Those beautiful names of Christ that we memorized years ago. Wonderful. Counsellor. The mighty God. The everlasting Father. The Prince of Peace.…

Last year, in an effort to try to make our church congregation Christmas gathering more Christ-focused, someone came up with the idea to do a walking nativity. Some people in our congregation live on some farm properties adjacent to our neighborhood complete with horses and sheep and even a couple…

(This post is expanded from my Instagram post a couple days ago.) I am reading such a good book (called Unscripted and I promise to come back to talk about it soon because there’s a lot I like about it). But for today I’ll just say there’s lots of talk…

Claire just told me today that this is her own favorite Christmas tradition too. We love that there is an outlined idea each day. Something easy and doable for everyone. Something that helps us to remember the real reason for this season. To carry light in our own unique ways.…

I talked about Christmas back HERE, but I didn’t expand to the “big kids” Christmases and also some of my favorite gifts. And that it important to document as well! It’s so interesting how we can go from this picture on the left to this picture on the right in…

We had two kids home for Christmas. Our two older kids were tucked safely with their in-laws, and Grace is tucked safely as a missionary in Texas. It was strange to have such a small group, but also a little bit awesome. Oh, we missed our other kids with all…