Tag: God is With Us
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On the Fifth Day of Christmas

Go ahead you know you want to finish that verse… “My true love gave to me, five gold rings”. 🙂 I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and you were able to spend it with loved ones. We made it to Indiana to spend the holiday with family, and although not everyone could be there…
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So Much to be Thankful For

We started out a few days ago to head north to visit our family for Christmas. Unlike most trips, we’ve planned it out to make several stops and not do the “all nighter” we might have done when we were younger. Well, yesterday we had a little setback, and let’s just say we stayed an…
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Mary Did You Know?

Here we are, just six days away from Christmas, and if you’re like me, you’ve been playin’ the Christmas tunes quite non-stop 🙂 . I’ve put together a little playlist of favorites for this year and this song, Mary Did You Know, has been running through my head. I can’t even imagine the weight that…
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Happy Start to the Day

This morning’s little blog, is pretty, short and simple actually, 🙂 . Last night while making dinner we had Christmas music playing and one of my all-time favorites came on. I’ve been singing it to myself ever since, ya, I woke up with it in my head. I feel like I’ve been writing quite a…
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No Gifts This Year – Well Maybe Just One

We’re closing in on Christmas and if you’re like me you are probably not even close to ready. Our annual writing of cards is not complete, finalizing ideas for Christmas day snacks not done, oh and getting needed gifts, ya that’s not complete yet either. Stress, stress, stress…sound familiar? Over the past few days, I’ve…
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Let it Snow

Well, you are surely wondering where I might be going with today’s little blog. I mean, I live in SW Florida and I’m saying let it snow… There are many things curious about that title 🙂 Last night we participated in the Marco Island Christmas Parade. Those who know me, know of my love for…
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A Prayer for Joy

The weeks are sure flying by and we are already into this third week of Advent. As you recall from a previous post in this little blog about the Colors of Advent, the third week is about joy. So today I just wanted to share a prayer of Joy for Advent. Hope it makes a…
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A Picture is Worth

We’ve all heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Well, many times a picture is simply priceless, meaning you can’t even put a value on it, it’s so amazing. I came across these incredible pictures yesterday in a FB group that I’m part of. I’ll let you decide what you think of…
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Advent – Did You Know

I mentioned I’ve been reading about Advent trying to learn new things this year. Well, how about ten quick facts you may, or may not have known. Yes, just a quick lesson as you enjoy your coffee to begin the week 🙂 So there you go, a quick lesson in some simple Advent facts to…
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The Calendar

So it’s December 1st and you know what that means? Yep, we get to start opening those windows or boxes on the Advent Calendar. When our kids were young it was a tradition to pick out our favorite design from the church bookstore. It was always difficult to decide because there were so many designs…