Category: holidays

An Easy and Happy Valentine’s Day

family, giving, holidays
easy and happy Valentine's day

When I was a child, I loved Valentine’s Day. No, not really just Valentine’s Day. I loved ALL the holidays. I never liked those questions where people ask you which is your favorite. As a kid people often ask you your favorite things. “What’s your favorite color?” “Favorite holiday?” “Favorite food?” I have the same problem with all three of these questions, which no one asks you when you’re an adult, until you have children. Then your children ask you […]

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Global Warming, Honest Abe, and the Best Month Ever

giveaways, holidays

November is quite possibly my favorite month of the year. Why? It all boils down to 2 primary reasons. #1. It is not SUPPOSED to be 90 degrees anymore. I’d do anything to get these temps turned down. ARE humans causing global warming? I don’t know. I don’t care anymore. If there’s a chance it might work, here, take my car keys……. Wait……. Does that mean I have to home  school again? No, never mind. You can have my electricity, […]

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My Pinterest Fail and other funny stories. Bring it, Christmas!

Christmas, family, food, funny stories, holidays

I am excited about the holidays! So excited! Mostly because it means I don’t have to teach as much. Is that wrong? I was at the chiropractor’s office today, when lo and behold, Daniel’s new preschool teacher walked in. I admitted to her that her job was much too hard on the back for me. Just the one day of volunteering had me running home to my hot pack. But you know what? She loves teaching. It’s her calling! I’m […]

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“Handcuffs, A Balloon, and A Car” Let the shopping begin!

Christmas, holidays

It’s the week before Thanksgiving. At our house that means that Alan’s entire family is doing their Christmas shopping. They will be completely finished before the rest of us even start. I just wanted to pass that info on. Maybe it will help motivate other Christmas slackers, like myself. I asked Daniel today, “What do you want for Christmas, sweetie?” “Um…handcuffs..” “Handcuffs?” “Yup. And a balloon!” “Oh, good,” I mused to myself, “I can do all of this boy’s shopping […]

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Guest Post: No Elf on This Shelf

Christmas, friends, funny stories, holidays

My friend Mary is stepping in today to weigh in on this hot trend: the Elf on the Shelf. We don’t have one at our house–mostly because we don’t want the extra work. Is that a good enough reason? 😉 No ill will meant towards the Elf per say, as Mary said, “For those of you who do the whole elf thing, you keep making elf magic. ” Some of us will happily sit this one out. Let’s hear from […]

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Happy Martin Luther Day!!

Bible, God, holidays

October 31. It isn’t just Halloween–a very odd candy holiday in which perfectly happy, normal people throw skeleton decorations in their front yards. I don’t mean to be the Halloween Scrooge, but Halloween gets on my nerves. I passed a house yesterday with three fake tomb stones in the front yard. On the stones, the family had written the names of their children (living children).  Weird, ya’ll. I don’t care what holiday that is. It’s weird. As far as I’m […]

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Easter: The Golden Baptist Standard

babies, blessings, brothers, Easter, family, holidays, little boys

  Remember last Easter, when I was about 7 months pregnant and I totally forgot to prepare for Easter?  I joked that I had fallen very short of the “golden Baptist standard of Easter Sunday.” Well, boo-yah!!!  Look who planned ahead this year!!!!! Are those MATCHING outfits???  Why,yes, they are!  We’ve come a long way, baby. (For a refresher on last Easter, just click here.) (ahem…..that is a joke. Easter is not about clothing, of course….sometimes it may feel like […]

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Our Nightmare Before Christmas

croup, holidays, Raynaud's disease, vacation

Let me tell you a story about the time we had our own real life nightmare before Christmas. There are times when things just don’t go the way that you had hoped.  Embarking on a looong car trip with four children is a foolish brave thing to do. It all began around 10pm the night before we left.  I walked into Dan’s room to get something, and I noticed he had a very wet sounding snore.  “Oh no,” I thought. Around […]

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