The alt title of this post is The Best Cinnamon Rolls I've Ever Made. When I was in second grade I borrowed a book from our public school library and proceeded to, when my mom was out of the house, make a loaf of bread. Being 8 or 9 at the time I'm certain the … Continue reading Merry Christmas Dear Ones
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Advent, Lent, Rote, and Renewal
Ya know how you do something over, and over, and over again and it becomes rote. Part of who you are, the core of your being. There are many things we do sing, breathe, blink, stretch, contort our faces in ways that show the underlying sentiment, or not. My face has a mind all it's … Continue reading Advent, Lent, Rote, and Renewal
Christmas
Merry Christmas dear ones. Thoughts of Christmas and this Season whirl around in my head, like snowflakes in a light wind. Frittering to and fro before landing and becoming part of the overall landscape of things. Thoughts of Mary giving birth to her only child in a barn, and laying him in a manger filled … Continue reading Christmas
Journey into 2015
Here we are still in the throes of the 12 days of Christmas. My sweetie and I are finishing up Christmas cards. (As of this post - they are done and in the mail) I'm planning out the next few days that I have here at home to do some quilt "work" related stuff. Stuff … Continue reading Journey into 2015
Christmas Traditions
The other day a friend asked what my sweetie and I are doing for Christmas, what are our traditions, how do we celebrate the birth of our Lord? For the first fifteen years of our marriage we were involved in Church ministry so the people we served were the priority. We spent Christmas Eve (always) and … Continue reading Christmas Traditions
Giving thought to Emotions and Difficult Times
It's Advent. A time of waiting, quietude, expectancy. It's hard to walk quietly through Advent and not anticipate too much what comes next. Christmas is in our faces from late summer/early fall. "Christmas! Christmas! Time is here!" When I wrote Come to the Quiet, about grief it was just a few days shy of the … Continue reading Giving thought to Emotions and Difficult Times