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This year our family shrunk at Christmas. From the overall total of 27 people in our clan, to last year’s Christmas gathering of 10, to this year’s grand total of…

New Year’s traditions are as sacred to many families as their Christmas traditions.  Growing up, our family always gathered with the same group of friends after attending New Year’s Eve…

Ever wonder what to do with all those Christmas photos and photo cards you receive from family and friends? They seem to clutter on the mantle or crowd in my…

Christmas is about Choice. Whoever believes receives opens the door, shall be white as snow adopted heir of God partaker of the Divine Nature lavished with the riches of grace…

Christmas is about Love. For God is Love, unchanging, everlasting, abounding, steadfast love that never ceases. Love beyond comprehension, enduring forever. He set His heart in love on me. Great…

I was throwing myself a holiday pity party. No decorations needed. No one else was invited—I don’t believe in “misery loves company.” Just chocolate and a box of tissues. This…

I love to watch kids open Christmas presents. There is nothing better than a child’s huge grin of anticipation when she grabs a present and tears into it, unless it…

If your belly is lookinglike a bowl full of jelly, welcome to the “Pregnant at Christmas” club, where most of us are shaped a little like a cheeseball right about…

Christmas has changed a great deal since the early days of our marriage. Because we had two full-time professional careers and a marriage later in our twenties, our first home…

I made another mistake. The other day when my 4-year-old was flipping through one of the many toy catalogs that have made their way to our mailbox for the “season” (of…