It’s Christmas Eve and I’m sitting here on my couch gazing at the Christmas tree that my girls so lovingly decorated and redecorated over the past few days, sipping my Amaretto coffee and eating too many hazelnut truffles. The twinsies are both napping thankfully (doesn’t happen every day lately), and I am not feeling very motivated. Usually, I have everything…
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Sometimes It’s Just a Blue Christmas
A Christmas Letter to My Brother in Heaven
Hey bro, It’s almost Christmas. We are getting ready to celebrate at mom and dad’s on Christmas Day like we always do as a family, but my heart isn’t in it as much this year. It will be the first Christmas ever that I can remember having without you. I feel a strange mixture of dread and anticipation-because it’s still…
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The Day I Became “that person”
That day grief knocked on my door and I unsuspectingly opened, the crushing force of pain threw off my rose-colored glasses and I finally knew the true meaning of the word sorrow. It started out like any other normal August day. It was a warm and sunny Monday, and the girls were excited to have my mom over to play….
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Family Dinner-The Lost Art of Ceremony
One of the things I have been challenged to do more lately is to make family dinner together more of an effort, especially our evening dinner time when we are together as a family. One of my favourite authors in her book, Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry, talks about the importance of making some mealtimes…
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5 Ways Your Child Can Help Celebrate Family Mealtime
As a mom of twin toddlers I often overlook the importance and significance of family mealtime for my children. When you are making and serving three meals a day plus three or four snacks (is it just me or do toddlers eat all day long??), the very act of sitting down at the table and taking time to eat properly…
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