By Her View From Home When You Just Don’t Feel Like Christmas
It's hard to admit, but some years I have to force myself to decorate for Christmas. Some years the lights…
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By Renee Emerson Let Grandma Bring the Sugar, It’s Extra Love
The teacups lined the counter—our yellow chicken mug (my personal favorite), the floral rose, the black hand-made, the one we…
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By Karen Johnson Amazon’s Holiday Ad Will Hit You Right in the Nostalgic Feels
There’s a reason we call it holiday “magic.” Something happens around this time of year— maybe it’s the nostalgia of…
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Mommy, Will You Color with Me?
She turns four this month. How did that happen so quickly? Wasn’t I just watching her tiny profile on the…
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By Vicki Bahr With Grandkids, It’s The Little Things
We had just pulled into the driveway when our youngest grandtwins, 3-year-old Ellis and Brady, came running out the front…
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By Leslie Means Another Piece of My Childhood Died with Bob Barker
“Mom, why are you crying?” my daughter asked me. “Because Bob Barker died,” I said through tears. I didn’t know…
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I Gave My Kids Another Mediocre Summer
I’m an elder millennial—meaning I grew up with non-extravagant summers filled with Slip 'N Slides hooked up to water hoses,…
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By Lizzy Christian Time Is Precious—Don’t Wish It Away
Time. It's a weird thing. It passes ever-so-quickly. It’s a thief in the night. Yet somehow it stands still. It never…
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A Kitchen Doesn’t Have to Be Fancy to Be the Heart of a Home
The kitchen in my home is a sacred place. This humble place of mine has held the moments of our…
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By Sarah Lewis Even by Her Deathbed, I Question If I Was Enough for My Mother
The beeping of the machine yelling to the nurses about the occluded IV snaps my mind back to the present.…
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By Amanda Crews Kids Remember Love, Not Perfection
When I was younger, I am sure my mother yelled or lost it from time to time though I can’t…
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By Amy Keyes I’ll Always Remember the Little Boys They Were
I have a lot of gray hair. More than most people my age, and probably no less than my mom,…
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