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A Whiff Of Christmas In Prague

Bundled up in wool hats, scarves, mittens, and about two kilos of extra weight in clothes (and admittedly a "few" added grams from the cheese we've been consuming) we wind our way through the woods behind the 12th-century Strahov monastery. I think of Robert Frost's famous lines, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep." Like ...

5 Fun Memories To Create With Your Kids This Christmas

“Have a holly jolly Christmas, It’s the best time of the year,” goes a song on the radio. Sometimes, though, with the hustle and the craziness that the season brings, it’s the most stressful time of the year too. Our lists are never ending and it’s impossible get the to-do’s crossed off as the kids ...

Empty Boxes

Growing up in the 90’s in India, I have many fond memories of Christmas. It was about carol singing into the wee hours of the morning. It was about platefuls of steaming biriyani and brightly coloured paper stars that hung outside homes. It was about homemade plum cake heavy with fruit soaked in alcohol that ...

Making Space – Advent Devotional

Christmas – along it being the most wonderful time of the year, it tends to be the busiest. This Christmas, let’s clear the clutter to make space for Christ. These Advent devotionals, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas, are a small way we can focus on what truly counts. Click here to ...

Making Space for Christ

It's been stuck in my head. Like a line from a song. Oh, wait. It is a line from a song. One that probably topped the charts a little while ago. It's a line from the beloved Christmas hymn, 'Joy to the World.' It's a song of triumph and celebration. It lifts your spirit. And it's just so... joyful (yeah, super ...

Free, Fab, FOB Christmas Art Project

If you told me last week I'd be blogging about an art project created by moi, I would have snickered. I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, crafty (neither in the conniving sense, nor like a sweet, old lady with knitting needles) But when you combine the need to make your fireplace mantle look Christmasy with the budget of ...
MEET SUSAN

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