Merry Christmas

  Today is a perfect day for celebrating God and the Gift He gave us so long ago. Last night, on Christmas Eve, our family watched the movie The Nativity Story and we are still talking about it today. As church kids we have heard this story a million times. In the re-telling it sometimes loses its power. This movie, however, put a fresh spin on the ancient tale. Mary was a real young woman with a typical everyday...

Tag: Favorite Christmas Ornament

This story is hilarious! Here is my favorite ornament (for this game today anyway – I actually have a tree full of paper gingerbread men and popsicle-stick Christmas trees from my kids this year and those HAVE to be my real favorites): Since I can’t seem to get that image to flip, it says: “First Born (Mom’s Favorite).” AND, my mom gave it to me so you KNOW it is true. Here’s the...

Music Montage

I am NOT doing a good job of posting right now. But I have a good reason: I am in Music Montage mode. I get this term from my sister. The idea is to imagine your life as a movie. And you know how in the movies there is always that image section where the lead character is shown in short clips doing whatever really hard work it is that they have to do to win whatever it is they are trying to win in the end of the...

Tag: Favorite Shoes

Well, Good Girls, I LOVE shoes! So this was a difficult pick for me. I was going to say that these are my favorite shoes…. but those are actually my husband’s – I just think he looks so cute in them! Then I was going to take a picture of my whole closet floor because it is home to way too many pairs of shoes. But, if I had to choose just one pair of favorites, it would be these… They were...