Life, Love, & Laundry — Christmas

Unless you have lived in a cave for the last few years, you know there has been much discussion about using the phrase Merry Christmas.  The more recent trend, that is deemed politically correct, is Happy Holidays.  As you read this, for any of you that know me, you are likely suspecting I will say it should be Merry Christmas, because of my Christian upbringing and that I was a pastor for 12 years.  Some of you may be thinking, Ben is a pretty liberal guy despite his religious views, he is likely going to say we should use the...

Christmas is coming....whether you have started thinking about it or not. Today is our first snowfall that actually has visible snow on the ground here in Notre-Dame. With more in the forecast...So, you may not be ready to think about Christmas, but it is coming none the less.  We have done a few different kinds of Christmas's over the years. One of my favourite was the year we gave the kids something they could do. Andy got a bow and arrow, Adaliah got a sewing machine...that kind of thing. It was nice for them to have something to do after the...