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On the fourth day of Christmas, my Facebook feed is filled with pictures and happy statuses of people who have swept away their Christmas decorations and kicked their trees to the curb. These are also, not coincidentally, the same people who put up their trees two days after Halloween. I get it. If I’d […]

I had a wonderfully blessed Christmas and got many beautiful gifts, but my favorite gift has to be these socks Sprite made for me. They’re so soft and comfortable, I want to wear them all the time. And I have! When I wash them, I’ll be like Jack when his blankets are washed: standing in […]

Wait, what? Isn’t Christmas over? Didn’t we manage to survive (some of us just barely) and now we can look forward to the New Year and resolutions that won’t last the month of January? Why in the world would I still be talking about Christmas? Because “The Twelve Days of Christmas” actually refers to something […]

From the Thompson nerds, er family. Our Christmas Eve tradition is to open one gift, always a graphic t-shirt. They’re usually from Woot, but this year MTG and I got ours from Think Geek, and I just got Sprite’s from Amazon. Oddly, Woot doesn’t carry a lot of softball t-shirts. Weird. Give this medicine to […]

Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heav’n and nature sing, Advent is the season in the Church calendar when Christians prepare their hearts to receive their King. December (well, really starting in November) is the time when we prepare for the […]

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Kids are funny. Their responses are unfiltered by cultural conventions. They say what they mean and they mean what they say. And honestly, if we weren’t allowed to laugh at our kids, none of us would survive parenthood. Gen-Xers*, in particular, seem to make their way through life by mocking most everything, and parenthood is […]

Today is the darkest day of the year — or the shortest anyway. Beyond the astronomical event, it seems like a very dark time in our country and around the world. Our natural instinct is to shut out the darkness. We hole up in our well-lit homes, ignoring the darkness in the world by focusing on […]