Surviving the Holidays with Infertility
When you are infertile, and the one thing you want most in the world – but God isn’t giving to you – is a child, the holidays are incredibly difficult. No one seems to want to acknowledge it.
Category: holidays
Christmas Gifts – A Throwback Post
As a parent, I want to give my son a great knowledge of the Bible, of morals and values, of being an honorable man full of integrity. “Things” are not important.
Christmas is (not) My Favorite
Christmas was…survived. It has been a tough year, 2015. My little family of three is looking forward to ringing in 2016 with our new-as-of-last-year tradition of root beer floats and appetizers, and desperately praying for a better year. We did our traditional four gifts. I’m not going to lie: it was much harder this… Continue reading Christmas is (not) My Favorite
Seven Quick Takes: Post-Holidays Decompression Edition
-1- For Christmas we did four gifts for each other: something you want, something you need, something to play with, and something to read. We got Little Man a set of die cast Blue Angel airplanes (his current obsession after seeing them at an air show in Detroit this past fall), a book and DVD… Continue reading Seven Quick Takes: Post-Holidays Decompression Edition
Advent Activities
Advent starts today. Even though we aren’t Catholic, we do like to focus on the true meaning of Christmas, and I feel like observing Advent will help us a lot this year. We have the four advent candles (three purple, one pink) plus the white Christ candle (it smells like peppermint – yum!). I went… Continue reading Advent Activities
but *I* want…
For Christmas we decided four gifts, like last year: something you want, something you need, something to play with and something to read. Finances are such that Keith and I are foregoing gifts and stockings, but we want Little Man to have a nice Christmas. In theory, and in discussions, this four gift thing is… Continue reading but *I* want…
The Cynical Angel
During Little Man’s last week at Parents’ Day Out, they discussed the story where the angel appears to Mary to tell her she will be Jesus’ mommy. As a craft, they made angels out of Styrofoam cups, gold ribbon, yarn, construction paper and lace doilies. Then the teacher let them draw a face on the cup for… Continue reading The Cynical Angel
Bittersweet Holiday
Today is Mothers’ Day. I have very mixed, bittersweet emotions today. My mother is traveling home from Florida and a visit with my brother. This is the first Mothers’ Day in at least eleven years that we have not spent together. My mother-in-law came over and we went out to lunch, but my husband is… Continue reading Bittersweet Holiday
Time Flies!!
Goodness it has been forever! Let’s see… Sleeping is improving, thank God. I think we have hit upon the right combo of medications and daily physical activity. Little Man takes (generic) Zantac (one dose about an hour before bed), a dose of (generic) claritin about thirty minutes after that, and a few doses of Hyland’s… Continue reading Time Flies!!
Merry Christmas
I have been especially susceptible to the magic of Christmas this year. I am sure it is due to my Little Man, but watching his glee over a simple piece of tissue paper at Friday night’s family gathering almost moved me to tears. Saturday he received a stuffed Larry the Cucumber and a stuffed Bob… Continue reading Merry Christmas
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