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I first published Merry Christmas, Darling in 2005 when I was a brand new blogger. I bumped it up from time to time on my previous blog (2009 and 2013). It wasn't on this website and it is a story I want to share my readers. Interestingly, just a few weeks after I first wrote it we discovered we were finally expecting a baby - on our ninth …
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If you are looking for some cute free printable Christmas gift tags, you've come to the right place! These tags coordinate with the free printable Christmas advent calendar I shared yesterday so be sure to use both of them this Christmas. These Christmas gift tags are for all families to enjoy so I am happy to have you share this link so other …
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Some children need visuals to help them count down to important days (such as this school year countdown printable Caroline designed a few years ago). This is a free printable Christmas Advent calendar you can use with your children this season to help them manage the important task of counting down to Christmas. The Countdown to Christmas …
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This collection of Thanksgiving activities will make it easy for you to put together a fun and educational Thanksgiving themed unit. I've included all kinds of ideas related to Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving traditions. The resources include videos, printables, books, play, and more. If learning with themes is new to you, …
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In the hustle and bustle of shopping, wrapping gifts, sending cards and attending special events, it is easy for families to miss the entire point of Christmas – Christ himself. It's especially important to focus on keeping Christ in Christmas with children. Here are several simple ways to focus on Christ during this special season of the …
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We don't do Santa. It was a very deliberate choice. In fact, it was a choice David and I made before we ever had a child. For us, it came down to the exact same reason my parents did not do Santa with my brother and me when I was a little girl. It is lying. And we don't lie in our home. Period. Here is why I think doing Santa has the …
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Christmas is a time when each family enjoys its unique traditions. While some Christmas traditions are passed on from generation to generation, others are born out of a desire to do something new and meaningful. If you are looking for ways to create new Christmas traditions for your family, then you are in the right place. I've collected a …
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There are seasons in everyone’s life when gift giving is made more challenging by a lack of time. Whether there is a new baby in the house, illness, travel or an overload at work, the task of shopping at a variety of stores over several days or even weeks is daunting. If you are having one of those years and need to simplify Christmas gift …
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One of my favorite parts of Christmas is reading the personal notes and Christmas letters that come in the mail. I enjoy catching up with people I haven't seen in a long time. I started reflecting on what makes a great Christmas letter. The best Christmas letters are easy to read and contain memorable information. They are written well, get to …
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May 11 is an official holiday in our home! We celebrate It's a Girl! Day to commemorate finding out via ultrasound that we were at very long last expecting a girl. We had prayed specifically for a daughter all of those years and experienced a mixture of joy and tears and relief when the technician told us we were having a girl. Our celebration …
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So how were your holidays? Were they enjoyable? Meaningful? Special? Or were they (as Peggy called hers in a comment on another post) a "tightly-choreographed death march"? Did you and your family end up stressed, sick or burned out? Were you so busy doing the things you felt obligated to do that you didn't do the things that truly mean the …
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Through the many long years we prayed for a child, we prayed specifically for a girl. I had always known I wanted a girl and David was also inclined to pray that way. When we found out on our ninth anniversary that we were finally expecting a baby, we were naturally very excited. But the wait to find out what we were having at the twenty week …
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Homeschool moms spend their days focusing on and caring for the needs of others. They are both mom and teacher. They also wear various other hats that can include wife, daughter, business owner, and homemaker. I think the best Christmas gifts for homeschool moms are those that nurture her personally, allow her a little bit of pampering, and that …
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As is evident by the topics I write about here on my site, I am committed to simplicity, making deliberate choices, etc. But there is one area in my life where I do not wish to practice simplifying and downsizing. It is Christmas. I can tell you all the reasons why it is good to do a simple Christmas, why giving less gifts is good, why Christmas …
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It seems almost sacrilegious to write about Christmas not being completely and totally merry. Blogs are full of joyful posts about anticipating the holiday, making plans, secrets, and fun. Gorgeous photo spreads of merry activities adorn many blogs. Many people, women in particular, consider this to be the crowning moment of all moments throughout …
