Holidays

The Most Popular Posts of 2011

January 2, 2012

I hope that you've all had a restful and memorable time with your family during the Christmas season! Our holidays were relatively uneventful, but still wonderful.
My husband and I took a couple days away the week before Christmas to do some dreaming and goal-setting for the coming year. Then we spent a quiet week preparing [...]

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Too Many Holiday Sweets? Give Your Body a Sugar Break

December 28, 2011

Am I the only one who finds the holidays a struggle with all of the sugary temptation? I'm over at Simple Organic, talking about an important thing that we can do to help our bodies combat the sugar overload...
Holidays are a time for indulging. We stuff ourselves on turkey feasts, swear that we couldn’t eat [...]

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11 Ways to Celebrate Christ this Christmas

November 25, 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, we’re sharing helpful lists to help you save money, stay healthy, get organized, creatively repurpose, frugally gift-give, intentionally celebrate and more in our “11 Things for 2011” series throughout these holiday months.
Written by Erin Odom, Contributing Writer
As followers of Jesus, keeping Christ as the center of my family's Christmas celebrations [...]

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A Thanksgiving Gift Exchange

December 23, 2010
Season Of Thankfulness Breakfast by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

Written by Sherri Cook, Contributing Writer
The day after Thanksgiving when friends jokingly ask me if I'm finished with my Christmas shopping, I can always surprise them with an answer in the affirmative. At my house, not only have we finished the shopping, we've also finished the wrapping as well as the unwrapping.
How do we do this? [...]

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Whole Foods for the Holidays: A Real Food Progressive Dinner!

October 16, 2010

With both Thanksgiving and Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to begin thinking about holiday menus!
Serving food that is both nourishing and frugal (and still delicious!) is absolutely possible and our family and friends will thank you for it. I’ve paired up with 7 of my favorite real food bloggers and [...]

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Celebrate with Joy: Week 3

December 17, 2009
christmas joy

Image by ishane

For this week's Celebrate with Joy post, I'm going to take a pause from giving more ideas or activities for adding to your Christmas celebration. Instead, I would like for you to be encouraged and inspired as you press on in learning to make these "holy day" celebrations more meaningful and alive for [...]

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