From the monthly archives:
Life is getting back to normal here in the McLane house. As much as we were all looking forward to Christmas, the break in routine has taken it’s toll. I’m ready to be productive again. For me that means a little bit of laundry, grocery shopping and later tidying up the house. Yesterday I took [...]
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Today started out with Paul throwing up (Merry Christmas, mom!) but I suppose after that he felt better and the rest of the day was free from any sort of illness. Today has been a quiet sort of day. We always spend Christmas at home with just the four of us and we are always [...]
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For the fourth year in a row I have not been able to sit through an entire Christmas Eve service. This despite the excellent service featuring MainStreet followed by worship. The culprit…my son. Every year he finds a way to be distracting enough to leave the service. At least I wasn’t the only parent pacing [...]
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Tomorrow is when my side of the family will come together to exchange gifts. It will be a small crowd made up of my parents, my grandmother visiting from New Jersey and my sister’s family. My family lives over an hour’s drive away making it so that we don’t see each other too frequently. The [...]
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Our family has a few Christmastime traditions. Some are new and some are remnants of our own childhoods. Some are purposeful and some happened quite by accident. The Christmas Tree Thanks to Adam’s mom our tree is decorated in ornaments dating back 31 years to the beginning of Adam’s existence. One ornament for every year [...]
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