Tag: family
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When Reality Mixes With Tradition
We wanted to come up with a tagline for our Christmas this year. With everyone home, the house bursting at the seams with people, laughter, games and drama, we needed a title for the memory. Rogers’ epic Christmas. Celebrating tradition in grandeur and scope. It’s been non-stop motion and talk. Noise levels that have kept…
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When Reindeer Games Meet Family
They’ve been coming in from all over the country. The sheep are returning to the flock. The kids are coming home. We haven’t all been together in over a year. But every other year at Christmas, they come back. Like a pilgrimage. Six kids, five spouses, six grandkids–we fill the house quite nicely. Their coming…
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Picture That
It’s panic time. Two weeks before Christmas, and we haven’t gotten our family picture together for our Christmas cards. We have no cards. So nothing is addressed, signed or stamped. But the picture is the highlight, the one thing that has to be right, even if the cards aren’t exactly what we want. We’ve got…
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That Wouldn’t Have Been My Choice
They didn’t really want to be there. But where else could they have been? Teagan and Isley would have preferred being anywhere other than the soccer field. Neither were playing. Neither wanted to watch their sibs play. Since they’re not of an age to have a driver’s license or to stay home alone (ages 8…
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When Three Of A Kind Beats A Full House
One of my favorite movies of is “White Christmas”. I know. It’s spring. But it’s been really cold. What’s made me think of it lately is a particular scene in the movie. Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen played the Haynes sisters, foils for Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. They were close—working, living and performing together.…
Tip of My Iceberg 