"Loving the Little Years"

If you have small children and need encouragement, you need this book!  I read it cover to cover Christmas day after unwrapping it and I am sure it will become the kind of book that I'm regularly picking up for good reminders, wise words, and good encouragement.

This is not some abstract tome on how important little ones are... or some nostalgic musings of a grandmother looking back at her precious little ones (and forgetting all the rough days.)  No - Rachel Jankovic has 5 kids, 5 and under, including 2 year old twins.  She's not looking back to when she had lots of littles, she does right now, and is in the trenches... and giving encouragement to others.


She is one of the co-bloggers over at Femina, as well, if you aren't already a reader over there.  :)



(Full disclosure: Amazon link is an affiliate link. But I'm telling you about the book because I genuinely love it.)

Tis the Week Before Christmas...

 Our Christmas cards this year!  

Paperspring generously sent me a gift certificate and we loved this simple and classy design. 

 ...and this is the closest I'm going to get to a blog post, since I'm up to my elbows in sugar cookie dough, fudge making, and wrapping paper! 

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A very Merry Christmas to all of you!



 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,

   because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
   in the house of his servant David
 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
 salvation from our enemies
   and from the hand of all who hate us—
 to show mercy to our ancestors
   and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
   and to enable us to serve him without fear
 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days."

~ Luke 1