“Does Jesus want dolls for his birthday?” asked my four year old, clutching her Frozen Elsa doll, which used to sing (loudly) several bars of “Let It Be,” until the batteries died. Ever since she finally grasped that Christmas is Jesus’ birthday, she has been working hard to settle the most important birthday matter: What gifts does he want? “No,…
(Photo credit: My 5 year old) Shortly before I came down with the Thanksgiving bug (I’m much better now, whew!) I brought up all the holiday books from our lower level. That sounds like a straightforward, ten-minute task, doesn’t it? Naturally, it snowballed into a week-long, FEMA-level cleanup effort. Okay, sure, I never should have let our family room devolve…
Every November, our family tradition of shopping for fancy Christmas dresses officially marks the start of the holiday season. We load up the kids and trek out to the mall, where the kids marvel at “so many Christmas things!” as my two year old exclaimed this past Saturday. Craning their necks, they take it all in: the Christmas trees decorated…
It’s Christmas tree time! It’s Christmas tree time! We don’t mind the wet and the cold. We whisk through the rows where the perfect one grows… We’ll find it and make it our own! It’s Christmas tree time! It’s Christmas tree time time! We want to decorate now! We’ll find things to hang, we’ll do what we can. We’ll…
Did you have a perfect Christmas? As moms, we work hard to make the holidays “perfect.” Into our already crazy busy routines, we squeeze in hours of shopping for the right gifts, menu planning, cooking, baking, cleaning, wrapping… Exhausting, isn’t it? And for the Schairer family, taking and then mailing out the perfect Christmas family photo. It was beautiful…