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Picture the Holidays – Days Fourteen, Fifteen

December 16, 2011 - No Comments (be the first!) by Mishelle - Picture the Holidays

Sincerely Yours

I love sending holiday cards to family and friends. It’s one of my favorite things to do every December. This year I used Page Stationery and absolutely love the way they turned out. The quality of the cards is spectacular, and I was extremely pleased with the colors and workmanship of their stationery. I will definitely use them in the future!

[Disclosure: Page Stationery provided me with cards to send out this holiday season, and they sent these gorgeous gift tags and some complimentary Thank You cards and Note Cards that are equally wonderful. The opinions stated are purely my own.]

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Got Gifts?

The Babba Box is a really awesome idea. For a monthly subscription of $29.99, you receive a Babba Box every month. Each month there is a specific theme, and the Babba Box focuses on four areas: Create, Explore, Story Tell, and Connect…

Create
Each box contains 3 to 4 projects kids do with their hands. (All the materials are included!)

Explore
Each box includes a theme-based product to facilitate activities where your child will engage with the world & nature.

Story Tell
Carefully curated books to stimulate your kids’ imaginations.

Connect
Interactive learning with prepaid downloads approved by BabbaCo experts.

[Disclosure: I was sent this Babba Box to review, and I think the concept is novel, especially for someone who wasn't born with a crafty bone in her body.]

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Picture the Holidays – Day Thirteen

December 13, 2011 - No Comments (be the first!) by Mishelle - Picture the Holidays

Simply Divine

[The following was written exactly four years ago. I think it's appropriate to repost it today. I get chills every time I read it. I hope you do to. Merry Christmas.]

It’s easy to cry at this time of year. Easy to cry from happiness, from sadness, with an aching heart, out of loneliness; it’s so easy to be engulfed by varying emotions. It happens to me every year. Even more, now that I have my heart, in four pieces, walking around outside of my body.

Last year was very surreal, being pregnant and trying to make the magic happen for the bigger kids. I was worried about going into labor on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. I had talks with them about what would happen if “Dude” were to come on the special day. They all voiced that it would be a great present to the family if he did come and that we’d just have Christmas in my hospital room.

Sometimes I forget about the wonder that is being a mother. I forget sometimes because I have to manage the household, give lessons, cook, and just do all the mom things I have to do –most of the time, lately, on my own. So, I forget, it escapes me that motherhood was given to me. A precious gift and one that is sacred and most treasured.

The kids have been buzzing about how it’s feeling like Christmas to them. I, on-the-other-hand, haven’t been feeling it. Until this evening when the only light in the living room was the light of the tree and mantle. I felt it. Christmas songs were playing on my laptop and we were singing together. I looked around at these little pieces of my heart. These little entities that I care for, day in and day out. These little beings whom I love with all my heart and whom I give my heart to on a daily basis. I hope they remember these little moments. I hope I do, too.

Just as I felt this feelings, I realized that I was smiling. I was feeling Christmas. I was feeling the love that Mary must have felt as she gazed upon her chosen Son.

And, then, this song came on…