Have a “Mary” Christmas!

Tuesday-  Christmas concert at school, Wednesday- Family Advent Night at church, Thursday-Christmas Party at the “Smith’s.” Send out invitations for an annual Cookie Exchange at our house. Send out invitations for office party. Send out Christmas cards……. Wow! Is your calendar quickly filling up? AND- it’s only the beginning of…

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Familiar Joy

Childhood is wet cement. It hardens through the years and lingers as indelible memories in some remote place waiting to be rediscovered.  The molded  impression a thing makes on you as a youngster remains intact after cobwebs fill the corners and fade the details with the passage of time. When you rediscover it and touch it with wonder…

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