by Molly Huggins | Nov 20, 2015 | Affiliates, Christmas, Combating Human Slavery, Fair Trade Fridays, Free The Slaves
So here is the real truth. I am a FIRM post-Thanksgiving Christmas decorator. Christmas Creep is the WORST. (Except in certain pre-deployment situations. We have had Christmas in October twice now. Twice. Such is the Army life.) But, I am going to talk about it today....
by Molly Huggins | Dec 15, 2014 | Christmas, deployment, Fear, Hope, Photos
I love Christmas. Sometimes I talk about Mary. Once, I talked about shepherds (one of my favorites). Two years ago, I told you about Second Son. Last year, I talked about how Christmas was hard. The kids watched a lot of television. I mentioned Jesus a few times...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 25, 2013 | Christmas, Faith, Photos
I’ve lost two babes at two different times in the days before Christmas. And so I revel in the humanity of the players in that first Nativity. I empathize with young Mary, of course. I keep thinking of her physical feelings, her emotions at being a first-time mother....
by Molly Huggins | Nov 30, 2013 | All Things Crafty, Army Life, Christmas, Decorating, Faith, Photos, The Dailies, Wee Man
So I put up my decorations on or around November 18. Don’t judge me. Usually I am a vocal critic of Christmas Creep. People. Seriously. Wait until after Thanksgiving. Except for me, this year. But you know what? I was bored and alone, and knew I wouldn’t...
by Molly Huggins | Jan 1, 2013 | Blogging, Christmas, Faith
Happy New Year friends {I hope yours started with less vomiting, colds, and headaches than ours did}. I sort of took an accidental hiatus from blogging and the interweb in general the last three weeks… I mean, I was still FB creeping, and posting the occasional...
by Molly Huggins | Dec 3, 2012 | Bug, Christmas, Faith, Hope, Mommy Heart
I’m reposting something I wrote last Christmas {still raw from the loss of Bug} … something that still is so very precious to me. For at least half of the Christmas seasons I have spent as married woman, I’ve been newly pregnant or fresh-grieving the...
