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Darkest Night of The Year 2011

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Adriene took a new job this year so she did not have very much vacation time. The girls are in preschool so this week I’ve had the whole house to myself during the day. I gotta admit, selfishly, it’s been incredible. I love my family but I don’t get much time to myself anymore to [...]

Imperfection on The Darkest Night of The Year

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

I’m not a tree-hugging cosmic hippie, mind you, but for some reason I do like to do something special around Winter Solstice. This year I had a fine day planned out. We would take the girls out for our annual drive around the nearby neighborhoods, pick up some coffee, maybe even get the girls some [...]

Songs for the Day After Christmas

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I love the buildup to Christmas. I love the anticipation during the month of December. I love all of the music, TV specials, and Advent services at church before Christmas. I’m finding, though, that one of my favorite times during Christmas is the day and days after Christmas. This year we had Christmas at our [...]

The Darkest Night of The Year… With Kids

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Ten years ago today I was in the process of deconstructing myself down to the foundation. I had to figure out what I wanted and what God wanted to do with me. I really had no idea about either of those two things, so I spent a lot of time alone. I guess at the [...]

Behold The Lamb of God, 2006

Monday, December 11th, 2006

For the last couple of years, we’ve made it an annual tradition to travel to Nashville to see Andrew Peterson’s Christmas show. We would travel to the city for a couple of days and hang out in places like Fido and Bookman, gawk at all of the decorations at the Opryland Hotel, and then wrap [...]