When I was a little girl visiting relatives in rural north Georgia, I couldn’t help but notice that my great aunt Edith (we called her EE) had a working well in her backyard. (She also had an outhouse, but let’s not go there.) My sister Cindy and I would often toss pebbles into the well just ...
Stress-mas Survival
Hey BBFFs, I loved your comments after I introduced the topic of Stress-mas in my last post and asked how you handle the the performance pressure and general mayhem. (You always make my day when you take the time to respond!) Now, I’d like to make a few suggestions that I’ve found invaluable in freeing ...
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Stress-mas
Yep. Once again it’s that most wonderful time of the year. Have you noticed the stress level rising steadily everywhere you go? We haven’t quite reached melt-your-earrings stress level yet. That’s reserved for the day before the day before Christmas when you realize that the hideous sweater you’d planned to regift your sister was actually ...
When It Just Ain’t Joyful
Here I sit a week before Christmas, exhausted, not a single Christmas card in the mail, the living room strewn with wrapping paper and bows, taped boxes containing gifts to whom I can’t remember (we ran out of gift tags and no time to run to the store), while a swarm of workmen bang away ...
Christmas Glow
So happy to have you join me for Day 5 of the 7 Days of Christmas, a fun week of stories, thoughts, and scripture leading up to Christmas Day. May your blessings outweigh your stressings as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Click on the subscribe button to automatically receive tomorrow’s post. “Let the ...
A Place for Jesus
Glad you’re back for the third day of the 7 Days of Christmas, a fun week of stories, thoughts and scripture leading up to Christmas Day. If you haven’t already subscribed to my blog, be sure to (button on the right of your screen) so tomorrow’s post will automatically pop up in your inbox. “Then ...
Decom-Stressing Christmas
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the everyday blessings we enjoy: health, family, home, old friends, Cadbury milk chocolate bars with almonds … You know, I’d just like to saver this lovely tranquility – this peaceful contentment, this quiet pre-Christmas-madness moment – a little longer. Before the stress begins. Ahhh. Okay. It’s over. Here ...
