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The Workbasket – January 1952
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Workbasket post… and I still have quite a few I haven’t share with you yet. I know you’re just so excited about that, aren’t you? This one is from January 1952, and as you can see, the cover was torn off. For some reason, this issue seemed to have more than its share…
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Sweet 16
Has it really been 16 years since I first held her in my arms that snowy January evening? It seemed we had waited so long… we had been married 7 years. That was a long time? Then tell me how 16 years could possibly have gone by so fast? When I was about 16 I discovered this poem that stuck…
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The Christmas Story in Candy
My daughter plans to present the “Christmas Story in Candy” when we have my brother-in-law’s family over for a Christmas get-together this weekend. She will put each kind of candy (enough for everyone to have a piece) in a festive Christmas bag along with the corresponding Bible verse. She will ask each person to read one of the verses and…
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Vintage Christmas Radio Shows
Our family has been enjoying listening to a wide variety of Christmas episodes of old time radio shows this year. It seems that the “holidays” are so politically correct these days that it’s almost an effort to remember the true meaning of Christmas. The old radio dramas and comedies from the “golden age of radio” take us back to a…
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Christmas Goody Bags
Last year my daughters started a tradition of making holiday goodies for Daddy’s co-workers and other friends. We covered boxes with wrapping paper last year, but this year I found these fun “lunch bags” at Dollar Tree, and that simplified things greatly!Each bag contains a popcorn ball, a baggy of Chex Mix, and 4 or 5 cookies. The popcorn balls…
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Happy Birthday, Dad!
As I was looking through some old pictures, I came across this one of my dad when he was a teenager. He was probably 17 or 18 in this picture, and it was obviously taken in December. It was probably not too long before he went away to Bible college. (Or maybe he was home from college for Christmas break.)What…
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My Calendar Plate
My mother always uses her “good china” for special occasions — Thanksgiving, Christmas, company dinners — and when I was a little girl, any time the table was set with Mother’s good china, I had the privilege of eating from this “special” plate. See? It’s a calendar of my birth year!I have four siblings and none of them had a…
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Family Fun on the Oregon Coast
It didn’t work out for us to get together with extended family this year for Thanksgiving, so we decided to have a mini-vacation on the Oregon coast. We got up early Thanksgiving morning and drove all day, arriving at our hotel just before it got dark. Here is a view of the beach that was just outside our room. It…
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A Birth Announcement
Thank you, Mother and Dad!I’m glad God chose you to be my parents!
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Turkey for Thanksgiving
I’ll be roasting a Thanksgiving turkey breast this year, rather than a full-size turkey. My family plans to spend the holiday weekend at the Oregon coast, and as there are only 4 of us I decided just a breast would be plenty. My daughter and I plan to do most of the cooking ahead of time. We can just reheat…
