by Shannon Popkin | Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
My friend, Alice, had been either sick, or caring for sick children, throughout the entire Christmas season. So by December 23rd, she still hadn’t wrapped any gifts. Though she still felt miserable, Alice wanted her little girls to have at least one whole day of...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
“I don’t even care about buying Christmas gifts this year!” Even though I couldn’t see my friend’s tears over the phone, I could hear them in her voice. She’s going through a deeply painful trial, and oh, how I wished I could give...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m writing at True Woman today: Just before we moved into our new house, the previous owners were kind enough to give us a box of Christmas lights. They even pointed out a diagram, penciled onto a wall in the garage that showed which strand of lights went on...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Christmas is supposed to be the time when “All is calm, all is bright.” Really?? My expectations for myself (and everyone else) tend to be highest at Christmas time. And so is the stress. Take last Saturday, for instance. Saturday afternoons at our house...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last year, I came up with a tricky gift tag idea. I formulated this plan because I was frustrated by the way–in years past–my kids had figured out what was inside their packages long before Christmas morning. They had shaken the boxes of legos. They had...