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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OK, today’s topic from our Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival was TOUGH, and I’m the one who chose them! LOL. My most favorite part about gift-giving is wrapping the presents up. Now, I don’t always like the actual wrapping part; in fact, honestly, I’m not very good at it because I’m

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Today’s topic in our Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival is all about food! Now, here is a disclaimer: I do not consider myself a cook at all – I love watching Food Network and my husband and I are beginner “foodies” in the loosest of terms, but I like eating other

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Wives of Faith’s Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival starts today and even though I know I’m not eligible for the fantastic giveaways, I still wanted to share my thoughts on the different topics. Today we’re supposed to write about our favorite Christmas song. One of my favorite things about Christmas over the years has

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