Hope everyone has a merry and wonderful Christmas day! It feels like the hustle and bustle of the holidays slows down after Christmas eve and the actual Christmas day.
Wishing everyone takes the time to sleep in, drink hot cocoa, love each other, and savor the last bit of Christmas lights and fun.
Also, thank you for sending me your encouraging thoughts and comments after last night’s post. Having this cold for days has put me in a funk with less patience, thinking negatively, and getting irritated too quickly. I did have that mini discussion with Elliot today: I reminded him that I don’t willfully try to make his life miserable by telling him to do things. As we were talking, I realized my word choice of “telling” and that made me realize that I need to do less telling. We need to work as a team and that I will be more mindful to have more patience and be less frustrated.
It’s hard to have these talks, but once we do it creates space for peace at home. Whew, glad we had that talk.
And of course this holiday season:
Happy birthday to Jesus!!
Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world. – C.S. Lewis
Categories: Personal growth
singlikewildflowers
Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I'm so happy you are here. I'm an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature's beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child's heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you'll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you'll find some interesting posts to read!
sing like wildflowers 
Merry Christmas to you and your family from T and me. 🙂
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Thank you for the Christmas wishes!! Hope you had a lovely one too. Always good to hear from you. Happy to have made a new blogging friend!
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Merry Christmas from Croatia. 🙂
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Merry Christmas to you and your family!! Thank you for stopping by. I hope Felipe is having a great Christmas and in good health. 🙂
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Merry Christmas! I agree, the hustle does seem to disappear quickly. I hope you are feeling much better ! Blessings!
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Thank you! Our Christmas is pretty mellow with this cold. It inevitably slows me down, but it’s nice that nothing is on the agenda. Just staying home. Yes, doesn’t it seem that the busyness phases out. Happy about that…too much shopping lures. I didn’t know I needed so many things until I saw them. lol
I hope you are having a good day and a memorable Christmas. Happy new year and take care!
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Yes! I’m sure the malls will be busy the next few days w/ returns, using gift cards etc. Thank you for your kind words; all the same to you! 🙂
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I think the malls will be crazy, more so the lines. But it does sound like fun too. It’s not gonna happen though with two kids and a hubs who hates going to the mall. lol.
Happy new year to you and take care!
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