My Christmas Greetings to You {Sallie Video}
I will still be posting here regularly during the Christmas season, but I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to say Merry Christmas before everyone is immersed in parties and gifts and church …
Merry Christmas, Darling – Singleness at Christmas
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 …
Free Printable Christmas Gift Tags
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 …
Free Printable Christmas Advent Calendar
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 …
Christians & Lying To Children About Santa
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 …
Creating Meaningful Christmas Traditions
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 …
4 Tips To Simplify Christmas Gift Giving
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 …
5 Tips For A Great Christmas Letter
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 …
Ministering to Infertile Couples at Christmas
I’ve written before at length about our long experience with childlessness. I know from personal experience that for many couples dealing with infertility, holidays can be tough. Mother’s Day …
Saying “No” To Holiday Pressures
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 …