Archives for “Christmas”
May your horse have plenty of oats and a bed of warm hay. May you look forward to the future with excitement and a smile. And may you always know the love of family and friends. Thanks to all for making Wildflower Junction your second home. Wishing you all the best throughout the coming [...]
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It’s almost time. Time for family, Santa Claus…and the celebration of the baby Jesus. All my life, my family has gathered at church to listen to the Christmas Gospel and sing together. Then the lights go down, a hundred small candles are lit and voices join in my favorite hymn. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, [...]
Merry Christmas from my home to yours! Every year my husband puts up our Christmas lights, and my favorite part is always the Christmas tree he fashions on the roof. It came about when we were going through old strings of lights several years ago, and he decided to get creative with a bunch [...]
For my card, I decided to use a pic I took last year from the end of my driveway. There’s nothing like a white christmas, but if it can’t be white the number one thing that’s a must is very, very simple. I just live for our little family to be snug and together and [...]
Hi everyone! Christmas always brings back wonderful memories of home and family, doesn’t it? One of the things I remember so well about my dad was how he could remember and call forth the perfect quote for just about anything and everything. He always made Christmas a very special time of year around our house [...]
Merry Holidays Friends and Family!! The lights are on, the decorations are up, awaiting Santa’s arrival. We are ready for Christmas! I feel especially blessed his holiday season to have new two additions to our family. Little Everley Frances was born in 2011 and little Kyra Nicole arrived on the scene last June. Their [...]
I have a soft spot for nativity sets, especially vintage ones, and over time I have acquired over two dozen of them. Every year I assure my husband ‘no more’, but every year I break my word and discover another I must have. So for my Christmas card to you, I thought I’d share a [...]
According to Santa the most requested item this year is an Apple iPad. I couldn’t help but smile upon discovering that among the most requested items on letters to Santa in the 1800s was an—apple. Kind of brings to mind that old saying; the more things change, the more they stay the same. The tradition of [...]
One of my favorite things to do in December is sit back and enjoy all those wonderful classic Christmas movies that play every year. The ones that top my list are: Miracle on 34th Street . . . . . . . It’s a Wonderful Life . . . . . . . and White [...]
Miss Prinsella Primm, of Culdesac Corners, California, and Lifestyle Editor of the Courant, is visiting Wildflower Junction today to present her interview with outlaw Jack Ransom, hero of Tanya Hanson’s latest release, Christmas for Ransom. One commenter today will receive a copy of the novella either PDF or Kindle version, so y’all, don’t be strangers. November 30, 1880 MISS [...]
November is NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a novel – or 50,000 words – in a one month span. Writing 50k in that amount of time means you don’t have the luxury of going over everything you’ve written over and over again. You have to keep moving forward. The [...]
I have a book releasing this week. A Christmas novella, two books in one, with Multiple Rita Winner Linda Goodnight. Leave a comment to get your name in the drawing for an Kindle ebook. And the party rages on in Wildflower Junction ONLY TODAY AND TOMORROW TO GET YOUR NAME IN THE DRAWING FOR: Grand Prize–$100 Gift Card [...]
Though this is not a Christmas song. I chose it because the story behind it is incredibly powerful and captures the true REASON FOR THE SEASON It Is Well With My Soul By Horatio Spafford This hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford’s life. The first was the Great Chicago Fire. During the two days the [...]
Snowmen, Santa and angels generally come to mind when thinking of Christmas, but chipmunks? The Chipmunk Christmas song has an interesting story, starting with an imaginary witch doctor and a very stubborn rodent. Song writer Ross Bagdasarian was born in Fresno California in 1918. He co-wrote Rosemary Clooney’s Come-on-a-My-House but failed to score another hit. [...]
When I began plotting my story for A Texas Christmas I knew that my hero was going to be a grouchy old blacksmith who wanted to celebrate Christmas in the only way he knew how … in solitude because of a tragedy he’d experienced during the holidays three years prior. It didn’t take me [...]
JEFFREY KOTERBA’S ARTWORK USED WITH PERMISSION VISIT HIS WEBSITE: http://www.jeffreykoterba.com ‘Twas the night before Christmas in this Junction of ours; The sky over the prairie was ablaze with bright stars; Our boots were lined up by the fire [...]
For centuries, Christmas carols and Christmas hymns were not synonymous. Stately hymns were sung in church, while carols –deriving from the old French “querole” included dancing and were sung to dance tunes. This instantly made carols frowned upon by church leaders. In the thirteenth century, Francis of Assisi is believed to have added instructional hymns [...]
Christmas carols have to be my favorite form of holiday cheer. My husband and I both sang in choir during college as well as in an adult classical chorus a few years ago. My children love to sing too, and one of our friends from church jokingly calls us the family Von Trapp. As soon [...]
Hello, Winnie here. I love Christmas carols. And not just at Christmas time – all year round. I raised my children to love them as well. When they were little, one of our nightly rituals was for me to go to each of their rooms at bedtime and sing them a song. Among the usual [...]
One of the things I love about Christmas is traditions. I’m a farm girl, and I have a lot of “country” based traditions that I remember fondly. Some of them have gone by the wayside as I bring up my own family, but I remember them with a special sense of nostalgia, and one of [...]
First, I want to thank all of you for welcoming me to Petticoats and Pistols. I’ve been sitting here at my desk trying to think of what I would say if I was placing an ad for a spouse. It’s a daunting task, believe me. But hundreds of men and women did just that in [...]
I can’t let a December go by without a blog about Christmas trees. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a nut for beautifully decorated trees. At one time I put up four or five in my home, but since our downsize, I’ve taken to enjoying other people’s trees all the more. In fact I hold [...]
