🎅🏼Santa Pic 2019🎅🏼 in the books! Thank you @thefigtreerestaurant and @miravialife for a delicious brunch, great fellowship, and fun with Santa and Mrs. Claus! 🎅🏼🎄❤️ .
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Every Advent I seem to get it backwards... . ...leading up to this amazing season I’m always so focused on all the things I want to do for my kids and my family. The Advent Bucket List. The Jesse Tree. The Giving Manger. The Advent book baskets. The baking. The feast day foods... and I always always burn out somewhere between Saint Nick’s Day and Saint Lucy’s feast. .
Today’s entry from “The Greatest Gift” by @annvoskamp always brings me back to the hard truth that filling the house and the kids up during Advent isn’t my most important task or most worthy focus. It’s preparing ME for Christ - putting my oxygen mask on first before helping the ones God has put into my life to bless. .
Here’s to an Advent re-set and heart check like 5 days in (Although I still need to go get chocolate coins for tomorrow... 😉🎅🏼) .
FROM THE GREATEST GIFT:
“But the weight of everything melts like thinning snow in the heart of his words: “I will bless you.” He will not burden you. He will not break you. He will bless you - the God of invincible reliability, the God who has infinite resources, the God who is insistent love. You can always breathe when you know all is Grace. That is the order of Grace... The personal blessing envelops you first. Then you are the blessing sent to the world. YOU WILL BE EXPERIENCED AS A BLESSING TO THE EXTENT YOU HAVE FIRST EXPERIENCED YOURSELF AS BLESSED. You must feel the fullness of your own pitcher before you trust the pouring out of yourself.” - Ann Voskamp, The Greatest Gift, p. 40 .
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✨PTL✨...for a new liturgical season (hello Advent!)... a new week (hi Monday!)... a new month (how’d you get here December?!?)... a new devotional (LOVING “O Radiant Dawn by @takeupandread !!) ... a new to me delicious tea (#traderjoes Winter Wake Up flavor)... a new sweater that’s so cozy I’m never taking it off (Costco find, gift from my sister Anne)... .
What are you praising the Lord for today? How can I pray for you? 💕👇🏻 .
PS. My hat is a gift from Jennifer at @graceandgritdesignco - her store is the best! .
PPS. Beautycounter extended their Black Friday sale for Cyber Monday! 15% off all individual items and free shipping over $50. Message me if I can help you shop the sale today! 😘 .
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🍁HAPPY THANKSGIVING!🍁 .
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One month ago today I got to meet him. It’s funny how quickly you fall in love. How quickly you can’t imagine your life any different. How quickly you know you couldn’t breathe without the smell of him near your heart. .
Happy One Month, Beckett Martin.
Wow we sure love you. .
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🇬🇧 POLDARK! 🇬🇧....
Anyone else devastated the epic masterpiece series is officially over? .
My husband and I have been cult followers since the show first came out on PBS years ago. We also discovered the Poldark series of books by Winston Graham and have loved those too! .
Did you know the TV series is based on a set of twelve novels about the Poldark family? The books begin with Ross and end by telling the stories and adventures of their adult children. Peter read the entire series (yes, all twelve!) last winter, and I’m slowly trying to catch up (I’m in Book 5). .
If you love historical fiction with action, adventure, wit, romance, and everything in between (that’s also clean!) definitely check out Winston Graham’s series. (They’d make excellent Christmas gifts too!) .
Where are my Poldark fan peeps?! Have you checked out the books yet? Also tell us what to watch next now that the series is over! 🙏🏻👇🏻 .
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