Early in December, I had challenged some friends to pick out an activity out of Northpoint Ministries-Great Date Advent Adventure to do with their husbands and realized I hadn’t lead the way. For shame. So the other night when we were on the hook for picking up a group of kids from driver’s Ed, I asked my husband if we could take a mini date along the way. In my sights was the pick out an…
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Over the years of raising nine children and Navy moves there has been a need to anticipate what experience I want to create for my family at Christmas time. How do I organize Christmas? Check out the video below Christmas Gift Template
1 CommentI believe in working with your strengths. Knowing my strengths has meant I can let go of what other people do well and focus on using my own strength in the service to others. My top strength is input. The reason I mention it is because Christmas is deeply influenced by my need to collect and archive. I am so curious and want to learn as much as I can in general and specifically with the Christmas…
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What you know first you know best. For me, at this time of year, what I knew first and best was a live Christmas tree. Along with that tree, I remember the vinyl records from the Reader’s Digest Collection of Christmas music playing, “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus” and “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth all while we decorated that tree. My first Christmas where I purchased my own tree…
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There are times in your life when you don’t want any attention. You want to just keep your head down and your nose clean. Plebe summer at the United States Naval Academy was one such time in my life. If I could have been invisible that would have been ideal because attention meant correction, some form of humiliation and demerits. It was bad enough being a woman in the earliest years of integration at USNA. Attention…
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