As we prepare to celebrate Christ’s birth tonight with Christmas Eve festivities and tomorrow on Christmas Day, I want to thank you, my readers, for the time you’ve spent with me this year. Today’s the last day of the Wives of Faith blog carnival and we’re talking about Christmas wishes. So here is mine for

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I don’t take my husband for granted at Christmas time because I know there’s always the chance he may not get to spend it with us next year. I don’t take my house for granted this year; with our unemployment situation in its 18th month, I don’t assume we will always have it. I don’t

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OK, so I was totally late on this carnival post today, but I was working on quite a bit of other stuff for Wives of Faith so I think I have a good excuse. I did want to answer this topic though, because it’s so much fun. Most spouses work very hard to come up

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It’s easy to get caught up in all of the commercial fuss of Christmas these days. When Christmas decorations and merchandising start showing up right next to the Halloween decorations in September, you know things have gone a little too far.  The focus becomes on Stuff, instead of Someone. And yet that Someone is what

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Only five more days to go with the Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival! Today we’re talking about what we want for Christmas, and I’ll admit that this is a pretty easy one for me to respond to because what I wanted for Christmas, I JUST got! Yesterday, after being gone for

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For the Wives of Faith blog carnival post today, we’re talking about Christmas trees. I don’t think there’s ever been a time I can remember having a real Christmas tree. It’s always been artificial. My favorite tree has to be the one we now have and yes, it may be a silly answer and you

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Today’s post in the Wives of Faith Blog Carnival is a pretty personal one for me. I’m sure a lot of the other military wives will have cheerier posts for you to read but I hope mine may touch someone out there who can relate. You see, Christmas has not always been a happy holiday

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We’re talking about funniest Christmas memories over at the Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival today, and the first thing I thought of was the first Christmas Cliff and I ever shared as a married couple. We were living in Zachary, LA, a small town where both our families lived and where

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Today’s Blog Carnival question is all about the military spouse! Three years ago, my husband got a whole lot of Christmas presents under the tree. Most of them, if not all, had to do with his upcoming deployment to Iraq which he left for on Jan. 4 that following year. That was also the year

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Fourteen Christmases ago, I was in love. In love with a boy who stole my heart the moment I met him. Now, the moment I actually met him was on a hot day in June, eighteen months before. My parents moved from Pennsylvania the week after my high school graduation back to Louisiana just a

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