Something that has always fascinated me about Father’s Day is the movies trotted out in the weeks leading up to that Sunday in June, filling a shelf or two at Walmart, Costco and other stores that carry DVDs. Typically, they are westerns and war films. How’s that for fulfilling a stereotype? And they are often […]
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My husband wanted to pray together when we married, and I thought it was a lovely idea. It quickly became habitone which is still alive 36 years later. Our children learned to kneel for prayer as toddlers, and it quickly became a special time of the day for us. Family prayer is not always easy.
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Early on in our parenting days, someone told my husband “the days are long, the years are short.” When there’s a child involved, it certainly seems like we were changing diapers one day and sending our son to pre-school the next day. Time is fleeting so we celebrate the little moments in the everyday. We
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Amazon on the other hand has always been about changing the model. It tends to be a slow burning process that erases small chunks of the model at a time but over time (and Amazon has had time) those chunks add up. It is a direct and fierce competitor of physical bookstores and ideally would
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Activity 1: What’s a Wonder? A Christmas Wonder may be as simple as a Christmas memory that makes you smile, or as life changing as discovering you are loved by our Savior. In Christmas Wonders Carma explains the basic premise for the town’s traditional holiday greeting, “Have a wonder-filled Christmas.” She says, “A Christmas
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Share these table ideas with your friends! Poinsettia by HGTV Tree star name card by Martha Stewart Red tree plate Winter in the garden Upside down wine glasses Dollar store stockings Share these table ideas with your friends! Like the article? We bet you’ll love this book: Christmas is a time for family and there’s
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Each week I participate in a parenting podcast where parents submit questions. There is one topic my co-host and I get week after week: “Help, I’m losing my teen.” To give you an idea, here is a question I received last week: “Help! I feel like I’m losing my 17 yr old son to rebellion…I’ve
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Sharing what we are thankful for on a daily basis is uncommon, mainly because we get in the routine of living life and not appreciating the little things that make us happy. November is a great month to spend sharing with the people closest to you what you are most thankful for. Every day of
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Do you ever wonder why your child behaves the way she does? How many times in a single day do you ask yourself, “Why did she do that?” Even little things can throw you. Your three-year-old lies about brushing his teeth. He lied? At age three? Sometimes it’s subtle. For example, your teenage daughter tells
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Potatoes Chili-glazed sweet potatoes Cheddar mashed potatoes Caramelized onion and gorgonzola mashed potatoes Healthy potato gratin with herbs Mashed winter squash with spices Sweet potatoes with bourbon glaze Mini herbed pommes Anna Mashed pumpkin potatoes Honey cinnamon roasted sweet potatoes Parmesan roasted potatoes Stuffing Sausage apple brie stuffing Herbed bread stuffing Wild rice stuffing Marble rye
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