On the third* day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… *I know it’s not the third day of Christmas so work with me 🙂 3 painted faces 2 Santa’s helpers and a tree that was much too tall for our house.
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Twisted Christmas Chain
We put a little twist on the Christmas chain this year. While there are still names of friends and family on the links, we added names of orphans from around the world on the reverse sides. You can see children waiting for forever families at www.adoptuskids.org and www.rainbowkids.com. Here’s the post on our annual Christmas […]
Christmas Preschool Activities
In an effort to encourage Ty in his speech, language, and overall development, I’ve been trying (keyword) to do some basic activities with him. Here’s an example. It’s short and sweet with a beginning and an end and a holiday theme to boot 🙂 Print out the template by clicking the picture above. Gather a […]
Foto Friday
So the problem with taking over 500 pictures during Christmas break is finding time to process, edit, tag, comment, and post them. This is what we were up to last week. (If you click on the event, it will take you to the rest of the pictures from that event. If you’re really a glutton […]
Christmas Collage
Slowly making my way through pictures. The complete set is at our Photos page.
Project :: Tree
Operatives Mission: Search and destroy saw down Gear Phase One: The sawing Phase Two: The dragging Phase Three: The securing Phase Four: The standing Phase Five: The de-icing Phase Six: The lighting Phase Seven: The decorating Project Completion!
Bah Hum Bug
UPDATE: Apprently Our Daily Bread is thinking about this topic, too. Read Presents or Presence?. —————————– Original post follows… My kids: Mom, why don’t we decorate like that? (Pointing to a beautifully lighted house complete with candles in the windows, wreaths on the doors, and an inflatable Santa rocking on horse…yes, it was actually rocking back […]
25 days and counting…
Today marks the first day of our annual Christmas chain. Every year since PJ was 3, we’ve created an old-fashioned, red and green, Christmas-countdown-chain. Actually, it’s an old-fashioned, red and green, Christmas-countdown-prayer-chain. On every link we list friends and family in our life. Every night, the kids take down a link and we pray for the […]