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Meeting the Claus's
"I want to meet the Claus's," said six-year-old Cade emphatically. "They are such nice people!" I thought this was a very sweet thing for my boy to say. Rather than just happily collecting whatever is placed beneath the tree tonight...
My Christmas-Card-Only Friend
We have a friend whose trajectory in life seems to always be on a steady incline which never dips. Some years ago, he criticized my husband and me because our plotline was, at that point, tanking. This was less than encouraging. It didn't make us...
"I want my own baby Jesus..."
In Hobby Lobby today, a mom and her kids were looking at some little ceramic nativity sets-the kind that you paint. She said, "Oh, let's get this set, you guys! We can all work on it together! Look-there's a baby Jesus, a Mary, a Joseph....
A Christmas Debut
As a tradition, our family attends a play at the Civic Theater each Christmas season. When Cade was four, we decided that he was old enough to come. (Those tickets are expensive, and we wanted to wait until he'd actually watch the play!) True to form...