What are your Christmas traditions? What makes your family belly laugh? The stuff of legends? Here’s one of ours.
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Gifts
Managing Children’s Expectations At Christmas
“I just know that I want my children to grow up to be adults who seek to help and love other people. To realize that having “things” isn’t everything. So each year I’ll keep working and trying to help them understand. “
The last present
“November of 2018 was my daughter’s eleventh birthday and we had just lost her Grandmother a few weeks prior. Her Grandma was Mrs. Claus reincarnated, and the two of them bonded over shopping, fashion and decorating. Christmas and birthdays always brought her awesome surprises from Grandma.”
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My Favorite Things- Book Reviews
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that one of my favorite things about writing is that I have writer friends who write books and they need people to tell other people about their books. I’m going to share with you 3 new books- Skedaddle, Tune It Out, and The Price of Admission.
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It’s 2020 and I’m Thankful
“Life isn’t perfect right now. It probably never will be. But it will have moments that are better. Moments of joy, happiness and thanksgiving. And 2020 will end.”
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Physics Changed My Perspective Of My World
“Do you have dreams waiting?
It’s time. They are ready for you to reach out and grasp them with both hands. That mountain that looks like Everest is high. But it’s not quite as high as you think. It’s possible!”
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We ALL Need a Hug
“We ALL need a hug right now.
At a time when people are dying due to a pandemic and we are social distancing to protect ourselves and others, how do we meet the emotional and mental health needs that we have?”
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It Doesn’t Take Much to Minister To Others
“Somewhere living in New York there is a Jewish woman who is the best example of ministering to others I have ever known. I’ve never met her yet she ministers to me daily. She is my model of how I should be serving others.”
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Favorite Things- Music
“One of the things that has soothed my soul, given me life, and a way to communicate is music. Music has a power that can’t easily be translated into words. That’s why we have music, so it can speak the language of the soul that mere words can’t. And if I remember to turn it on, it can save me from completely loosing it on my children.”
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Christmas In The Air? Time For A Tree?
My Christmas tree is never picture perfect. But then, I never want it to be. I don’t want a designer tree that sits there and screams perfection. Read more. . .
