Christmas is fast approaching? Are you ready? I sometimes feel when people ask the question whether I am ready or not, I feel I have to have this huge checklist checked off, with nothing but Christmas bliss left. Christmas shouldn’t be about a to-do list. Yet that is what we have made it to be….
Sometimes I wonder why certain things happen in life. Why we become passionate about something, to only be derailed and forced to go a different direction. That is the walk of faith. I look back at my “career” in basketball and sometimes I feel it was cut short because of my heart condition. At the…
Gift buying. Gift exchanges. Gifts, gifts, gifts. What is a gift? When I think of a gift, I think of something I was given, out of the thoughtfulness of someone else, out of no obligation, when they expect nothing in return. When Christmas rolls around, do we buy gifts out of obligation because that is what…
What a weekend to be THANKFUL! Tuesday night, after basketball practice, we drove through the night to Michigan. I know, we may be crazy to drive through the night, but we didn’t want to “waste” a day by driving during the day – especially on the busiest traveling day of the year – Wednesday. When…
Organizing for Christmas is a task in and of itself. Where do you even begin? I decided to share with you a few questions, a few thoughts, and a few ideas on how to have a more low-key Christmas season. 1. Think about Christmases of the past. What are some of the traditions you would…
Christmas cards. Some people love them, some people sigh at the thought of sending them out. Ironically, one of the biggest tasks of Christmas, besides buying gifts, can be making/designing/creating/buying/sending out your Christmas cards. Why do you send out a Christmas card? Do you send them out just because you feel like you “have” to?…
