Today’s Christmas discussion is an easy one: What is your favorite Christmas song? This brings out the music teacher in me, but I have two favorites: O Holy Night (but it has to be done well!) and anything from Handel’s Messiah (also needs to be...
I must admit that reading all your wonderful “quick and easy” holiday treats made me so hungry. And I’ve never had the Oreo Truffles that several of you mentioned. Those things sound incredible! I think we’ll have to try those...
In May of last year, I made a trip with Compassion, International, to El Salvador that changed my life. (If you weren’t hanging around my blog last you, you can find the posts from that trip here.) After seeing poverty in such a real way, I knew I would never be...
Wow! I loved hearing about what everyone is going to let go of this Christmas! If you haven’t read the comments from our Day 4 “Let it go!” discussion, you can do so by clicking here. The Day 4 winner is Devin! We’ll be...
Today’s discussion centers around a relevant Christmas version of I Corinthians 13 which is often referred to as the “Love Chapter” in the Bible. After reading this thought-provoking piece, will you create your own line that you would add to...
Congratulations Chantel! You are the Day 3 winner of the My Hearts at Home book! It was great fun to read about everyone’s different tree traditions. I have some new ideas and I hope you do, too!!
Part of the fun of holidays for me is the food. Believe it or not, I enjoy the process of making it all probably even more than eating it. But I will admit that I love eating it, too!We usually do cut-out cookies, dipped pretzels, and cookie press...
Yesterday I found myself humming the song “Let it Snow.” No, it’s not snowing in Illinois…yet. And honestly, I’m not real excited about it snowing either. But I love the song. As I was singing it in my head, I was...
Ok, I think the Day 2 Discussion was a powerful one. If you haven’t read through the “Random Acts of Kindness” you need to! You can read the submissions by clicking here. You just might want to have a box of Kleenex nearby! I shed a...
Listening to my favorite Christian radio station, WCIC, I heard the announcer ask a great question for us to share about today: How does your personality show up in your Christmas tree?I was thinking about that as it pertains to our tree and realized that my tree...
