Follow Well. Lead Well.
The Christmas season isn’t complete for me without the song, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” I know I have mentioned this before, but unlike some songs, I never tire of it during the holidays — playing it over and over on the piano. As a child we usually made it to church during the weeks …
I am sitting here eating my favorite kind of Christmas cookie, an iced sugar cookie in the shape of a gingerbread man. I wonder what gingerbread men have to do with Christmas. There are many Christmas symbols like this– some having closer connections to Christmas than others. My sister recently posted a photo on Instagram …
Don’t you love recipes that are tried and true, delicious, loved by most, and simple to make? For all the above reasons, I love these bar cookies! They go by many names like, “Magic Bars,” or “Hello Dollies.” But since they are made up of seven layers of ingredients, I call them “7 Layer Bars.” …
Every Christmas story, play or nativity includes shepherds. When my kids were small, we dug through the closets to find costumes for our own Christmas story reenactment. Being the only girl, I was, of course, always Mary. The baby at the time was Jesus, and another kid would be a shepherd with a towel or …
It is easy to be surprised by how quickly Christmas seems to creep up. I am not sure why this is, since we are reminded about it daily for quite awhile. It isn’t as if the retail stores have tried to keep it a secret for the last two months! I am also always surprised how …
Peace. Whether as a sentiment in a card or sung at the mall, it adorns the season — like so many other ornaments of the holidays. I don’t really think much about “why” this is, as Christmas surrounds me. I sure have long enough to ponder things like peace, since the store decorations have been …
