a white elephant gift idea…
I cannot believe my kids will be bounding in the door any minute with huge smiles across their faces DONE with their first semester. How did that happen so dang…
reading under the Christmas tree
As soon as we pulled out the Christmas tree and lit it up for the first time, we all knew it was time: Time for some Christmas stories under that…
Christmas 2014 in a winter wonderland
We’re only 12 days into 2015 so why does it already feel so ancient to write “2014” in that title? It seems to me that all the world has…
Christmas Eve 2014
I can’t get my Christmas Concert videos to work that I wanted to share to wrap up China so I’m waiting for next week. For now I want to…
thoughts on walls and Christmas decor in China…and temple prints too
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve always been pretty particular about what we put on our walls of our home. (THANK YOU, by the way, for all the great Christ-centered art…
He is the Gift
I thought I could get to the rest of the Japan pictures today but wanted to share this first. We are trying to get ready for Christmas here. So far,…
Christmas day 2012
Although Christmas Eve was my favorite, Christmas day was pretty great too. Santa prepared everything quite well if I do say so myself. I’m sure those little squiggly-writing-because-he’s-so-cold-from-his-sleigh-ride that he…
Christmas Eve
We have some friends who just moved to the desert from the heart of New York City. They came to visit last month and we sat around and picked their…
from our family to yours…
Merry Christmas Eve. I have to share our very favorite Christmas clip: So excited for the giving part of Christmas.