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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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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