Every family seems to have them.  Traditions.  The momentous events that help to create the memories of the season that we cling to year after year.  For our family those range from cutting our tree down together at a local tree farm to baking cookies with our family. Church Christmas Eve afternoon ... read more

I love to read and I love Christmas.  I love small intimate bookstores and I love Christmas.  See a pattern forming here?  So for me there is nothing better than combining the two...well add I love Christian book stores and Jesus and Christmas, there is my ultimate combination.  One town over from ... read more

This year as the week of Thanksgiving approached I started to realize that I don't really have a lot of memories of Thanksgiving as a child.  I have a memory of the traditional food my mother always made, that continues to adorn our family Thanksgiving table, and watching the Macy's Day Parade with ... read more

I am so thankful we don't have cable because I find election commercials so annoying.  Yes, I'm more of the rosy glasses kind of person so all the tearing down instead of building up gets to me.  No worries, I had my fill on social media which I also got to the point of turning off some days.  And ... read more

As I tuck my kids in bed, I leave them with a 'goodnight' and an 'I love you'.  Sometimes they say it back, depending on the child, and other times they do not.  I could care less.  I tell my husband I love him daily and he back to me.  Sometimes he prompts it and says it first.  Why do we say it ... read more