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Top Family-Friendly Christmas Movies Streaming on Netflix and Prime

Top Family-Friendly Christmas Movies Streaming on Netflix and Prime The Christmas season is bearing down on us with welcomed threats of mistletoe and butter-laden cookies (AND the Christmas Blessing Giveaway at the bottom of this post), and I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to one of our favorite traditions: snuggling up with…

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History of Christmas Traditions and the 12 Days of Christmas
History of Christmas Traditions and the 12 Days of Christmas

Merry Christmas to All! It’s that time of year again. My favorite season of all, in spite of the freezing cold and vortex level winter storms that sweep through the Midwest. It’s the time of year for cozy blankets, hot cocoa, and crackling fires. Time for gift giving, comfort foods, and family get-togethers. It’s also…

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Remembering Christ Through The Holidays
Remembering Christ Through The Holidays

The holidays are upon us. What is on everybody’s mind? Christmas. Christmas activities. Christmas decorating. Christmas traditions. Christmas shopping. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. It seems like every year we try to cram more and more into our already busy schedules. After all – Christmas is only the best time of the year when we find time…

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Teen Gift Self-knowledge
Give Your Teen the Gift of Self-Knowledge

All teens are gifted. However, the gifts need to be discovered. Give your teen the gift of self-knowledge.   Sometimes I irritate people when I say that all teens are gifted. They would prefer an idea of giftedness that makes some people privileged and the other people not:   • My teen is intellectually gifted….

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unique gifts
Unique Gifts

A child is a gift from God; Psalm 127:3 says, ”Children are a gift from the Lord;they are a reward from him.” Children are our reward and with that reward comes a responsibility as well. I love the depiction found in Psalm 127:4, where it equates our children to be “like arrows” in the hands…

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