Hi everyone! Can I tell you how much I love that so many of our December posts here on Inspy Romance are all about relaxing and remembering that Jesus wants our hearts, not our busyness? And that our families would probably appreciate our presence more than our presents?
This week my husband, son, daughter-in-law, and 3-y-o granddaughter trekked off in the woods to cut Christmas trees. Some years we’ve needed snowshoes, but not this year. Instead, we took advantage of a brief gap in the rain for our adventure! Time together is more valuable than the tree and trimmings.
A vintage Christmas postcard from my parents’ collection.
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On Saturday, Autumn Macarthur shared how God is teaching her to Be Still in the midst of busyness.
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Wednesday: Hallee Bridgeman
Thursday: Lindi Peterson
Friday: Lynette Sowell
Saturday: Kimberly Johnson will talk about the imaginings of a romance writer.
A vintage Christmas postcard from my parents’ collection.
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
Valerie, still loving the vintage postcards and your posts!! Have fun with your 3 year old grandchild this Christmas! It’ll be a fun one for sure!!
Time together with family, is the greatest gift we can give one another. Enjoy, Val!
Our family has wonderful memories of going to the tree farms to cut down our live Christmas tree. We went to the same tree farm for years. There were years of snow, ice, pouring rain and then, heat. But, each Christmas, we were able to take the hayride out to the trees and pick our tree. Now, we have an artificial tree. This year, our son and daughter-in-love decorated the tree for us. Times will change, but, we will always have those wonderful tree memories. God gives us such wonderful blessings. Merry Christmas!
I enjoyed seeing the vintage postcard.. Merry Christmas to you !
She’s the only one who lives right here, but the other two (almost four and almost six) will be here for Christmas, too. What a privilege to see the wonder through a child’s eyes!
Thanks! It is definitely a gift.
Yes, times change, but faith and love and family endure. Blessings!
Thanks, Deanna! There are more postcards were those came from! Check back next week. Merry Christmas!
How wonderful that you got to go cut your Christmas tree with your 3 year old grand-girl! Such a special time to start some good memories with her :-)
3rd year running to cut trees together, and only had snow in the first one! Sigh.