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  • Day 22: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Christmas Day is almost here! Here’s your assignment for Day 22: Play Christmas carols and light candles while preparing dinner. Keep the music and candles going during dinner and have each person share one of their favorite carols.   Enjoy …  See you tomorrow.

  • Day 21: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Christmas Day is almost here! Here’s your assignment for Day 21: Be a secret Santa. Give someone a simple gift and don’t take credit. You could leave baked goods, candy or a sweet anonymous note on a neighbor’s doorstep.   Enjoy spreading cheer…  See you tomorrow.

  • Day 20: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Christmas vacation has begun for the kiddos! Let’s have a party at home. Here’s your assignment for Day 20: Have a hot chocolate and game night tonight… heat up a few cups, add marshmallows and stir with a candy cane. Here’s a crockpot recipe if you’re inviting more than a few… Give your games a Christmas…

  • Day 19: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Wow! Christmas is almost here! Today is my kiddos’ last day of school until 2009. Here’s your assignment for Day 19: Pray for your children’s teachers and school administration. (If that is you, then pray for your teaching and your role as your child’s teacher.)   Enjoy…  See you tomorrow.

  • Hospitalty? Special events? He can get it covered!

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    Scripture: John 2:3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” John 2:9 And the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine… Observation: Jesus turned water into wine for this wedding celebration, in order to continue the host’s hospitality. This was Jesus’…

  • Day 18: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Wow! We are one week away! Here’s your assignment for Day 18: Pray for a person with whom you have a strained relationship.   Hope you find this prayer time enlightening…  See you tomorrow.

  • Know Him and receive glory and goodness

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    Scripture 2 Peter: 3 As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! –New Living Translation Observation: To live a godly life, it is imperative to get to know Jesus better. Then he will give…

  • Day 17: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Hope you’ve been enjoying this season of advent. Here’s your assignment for Day 17: Get ready for Christmas part 3: Ask your kids what they would like to do over the school break. Make a point to do at least one realistic request.   Enjoy planning some fun…  See you tomorrow.

  • A Virtual Cookie Exchange

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    Getting ready to bake for Christmas and need some tried and true, really yummy cookie recipes? Or do you have a recipe to share? Below you’ll find a sampling of cookies my friends and I have baked through the years for Karen’s Annual Cookie Competition Exchange. If you have any cookie recipes to share, please post on…

  • NPR’s Holiday Reading List

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    Since I now so often have little ears in the car with me, I don’t get to listen to NPR in the mornings or evenings as I did in my pre-mom days. Tonight my husband came home and asked me to listen to a beautiful story that aired today on NPR about a family who sets…

  • Must schedule better to be more clear-minded

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    Scripture: 1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Observation: Don’t just pray haphazardly. Prayer is important so be intentional about it. Application:I really need to get back in the habit of waking before everyone else and praying, reading and journaling. I…

  • Day 16: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Hope you’ve been enjoying this season of advent. Here’s your assignment for Day 16: Pray for our country.   Enjoy your prayer time…  See you tomorrow.

  • Menu Plan for December 15- 21

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    Dinner: Honey Pecan Chicken, brocolli Honey Pecan Chicken ½ cup pecans 2 Tablespoons cornflake crumbs 2 Tablespoons honey 1 Tablespoon reduced sodium soy sauce 4 5-ounce chicken breasts Non-stick spray 1 Preheat oven to 425. Line baking sheet with foil. 2. Finely chop pecans in food processor. Combine with cornflake crumbs and sprinkle onto waxed…

  • Ya gotta take some steps for change to happen

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    Scripture: James 4:8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Observation: If you want God in your life, go to him and change your ways. Application: You can’t expect God to make all the effort and make all the change.…

  • Day 15: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Hope you’ve been enjoying this season of advent. Here’s your assignment for Day 15: Take a bubble bath tonight and listen to instrumental Christmas carols … or put it on your calendar for another date this week and do not cancel.   Relax and enjoy…  See you tomorrow.