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Matti Mattila (This is a re-post from January 2012 when the twins were just six months old and my older kids were 3 and 5. It was a crazy time. This January I’m working full time and my kids are sick (as is par for the course come January) – it...
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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. – Carl Sandburg // In the long, dark winter evenings, the older kids and I read our way through the Chronicles of Narnia. In them Aslan, the...
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(#SmallWonder friends, this post is late! My apologies. We will be taking a break from linking up next Monday (12/28) and I’ll see you back here again January 4th.) I tried to make Christmas cookies twice this December. The first was a batch of...
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Legend claims at midnight Christmas Eve animals received the gift of speech, but I imagine it was the other way around that first starlight night. Animals didn’t gain but humans lost, for once, their words....
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(Our truck isn’t nearly this old, but some days it feels like it . . . ) See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is...
