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12 Pearls of Christmas: Jesus Comforts
How to Cope with Christmas by Stacie Ruth Stoelting Last night, I dreamed that God resurrected my beautiful adopted aunt, Mary Jo Hoffman. But morning renewed my mourning for her: Christmas trees, snow globes, and music greeted my grieving heart. Relate? In previous years, my maternal grandpa (a.k.a. “Papa Ray”) died near Thanksgiving and my…
12 Pearls of Christmas: Just God
A Tangible Reminder by Mary Byers Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer, creator of the Veggie Tales video series. I was interested because my children grew up on Veggie Tales. But I was also interested because somewhere along the way I…
12 Pearls of Christmas: Home
COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Virelle Kidder My mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would come home from teaching school and bake late into the night. I helped clean the house and decorate the tree while my older brother Roger wired the house with Christmas lights, transforming our humble red house…
12 Pearls of Christmas: Life Beautiful
Life Beautiful by Margaret McSweeney During a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents’ stack of love letters that I recently found in a storage box. As a Christmas gift to you, I would like to share my father’s words to my mother written to her during Christmas 1949. This incredible “hug from…
Back to School Giveaway
By now most kids should be back in school, with some homeschool exceptions, but what better way to celebrate the start of school than with a giveaway! Thanks to Mom Central and sponsors for offering these great products for their Back to School Giveaway! And each week they post new giveaways for those part of…
September Book Giveaway
I’m teaming up each month with Valerie Russo, Senior Web Publicist at Hachette Book Group to bring you great book giveaways each month! Contest is open to US and Canada addresses only, but sorry, no PO boxes! Just leave a comment! September books up for grabs are: Two winners will get their choice of two…
Raggs and Dumpster, Here We Come! Paaaws Up!
As you’re reading this my seven year old daughter and I are on a plane (her FIRST plane ride,) heading for North Carolina to tape the Raggs PBS show and get interviewed by Dumpster the Cat. Life has been so crazy I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this yet, but here it goes… Mid…
“What Am I Going to Read for Summer?” CONTEST
My bookshelf is over flowing and somehow I’ve gotten duplicates of my favorites, so that means book giveaway time! Before the summer begins, I’ll be giving a way a stack of books to one or two lucky winners. It all depends how many extra books I collect by then! And in this economy who couldn’t…
LIFE, Love and a Contest!
What are you hoping for this Valentine’s Day? A diamond ring? A dozen roses? A big box of chocolates. How about life insurance? What? Not romantic enough for you. Well, a recent survey by the LIFE Foundation found “that 70 percent of Americans would give up Valentine’s Day in exchange for greater financial peace of…
Win The Ultimate Pepsi Super Bowl Party Pack!
About the only time I watch football is during the Superbowl. And the only time I get excited is when the Giants are playing. (My roots go NY deep.) I don’t even know who’s in the play offs right now, and probably won’t even know who’s playing until the big day, but I know a…