Today is the Twelfth Day of Christmas.  It is also Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany.  According to Wikipedia: Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, and is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the [...]

Today is the Eleventh Day of Christmas.  It is also my cousin Katie’s birthday.  Happy birthday, Katie! This is also my 100th blog post. Congratulations to me! Jeremy says, “But there are only 77 comments.  Y’all need to work harder!”  I did 100 posts in 58 weeks.  Hmm…maybe I need to work harder too.  I [...]

Today is the Tenth Day of Christmas.  Today is my last day of “vacation.”  I go back to work tomorrow.  Today Jeremy and I went to our friends from church’s house.  They have two small boys.  Mark is seven and Daniel is three.  It was a lot of fun playing with the children. Here’s today’s [...]

Today is the Ninth Day of Christmas.  I remember as a kid January 2nd was often the day we returned to school after Christmas break.  At least if it was at the beginning of the week–maybe not on a Friday–I can’t remember that exactly.  Did any kids go back to school today? I never liked [...]

Today is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  It is also New Year’s Day. I hope you’ve been having a wonderful start to this new year. As mentioned, it is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  We are still in the period of time known as Christmastide.  And so it is still the holidays, and I will [...]

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope all of you are having a blessed start to your new year. I didn’t see the ball drop in New York.  I woke up too late to turn the TV on and watch it.  Yes, folks, around here the ball drops at 8:00 a.m., and I was asleep.  I [...]