After reading yesterday’s post, Suzy said like Paul Harvey you have to tell them the rest of the story: This year I decided to do something different. The grandkids aren’t big fans of my fruit cookies, for them they don’t hold the same magic or believe they give you super powers. I decided to try…
Fruit Cookies
One of my fondest memories of the Advent season was my grandmother baking cakes and cookies, especially fruit cookies. These cookies were special, and I used to imagine they gave me super powers. I would climb my favorite tree with a pocketful of cookies, eat them slowly and imagine how to save the world from…
Inconvenience
A lot of families are trying to come to grips with modifying their normal Christmas traditions with the virus. We certainly are, and it is causing some angst. Although in the grand scheme of things it could be a lot worse. It’s not a bad thing to learn to adjust and/or do things differently. Want…
Stand Firm
…stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us…. — 2 Thessalonians 2:15. Whenever I hear the words tradition I think of the musical Fiddler on the Roof where Tevya deals with the conflicts between his traditions and society’s changes. We all face such dilemmas with our own traditions versus change. Which traditions do we…
Watching What Is Worthless
Turn my eyes from watching what is worthless, give me life in your ways. — Psalm 119:37. If I didn’t know better I would think that they had TV, social media, and video games back in the psalmist’s times. There are so many visual distractions these days one must concentrate and focus to get anything accomplished.…