Author: Solveig
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A Unique Christmas Ornament by Gary Wilson | Advent 2018 Day 8
“Hey Gary. This is Mark.” This was a surprise because Mark was the husband of the couple we asked to watch our house and pickup our mail for the week we were to be gone. “Merry, almost-Christmas Mark. What’s up?”
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Scared of tomorrow
And then last Saturday, things went belly up. I managed to buy some flour in the morning but shortly after I got home, I started hearing explosions and the air was thick with the smell of powder and the lingering scent of tear gas. We thought, it is raining, they…
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Christmas Sonnet by David Tremayne-Smith | Advent 2018 Day 7
Christmas Sonnet By David Tremayne-Smith Conscience tells me the season has come around,Here again, the ‘clock’ worked time for giving,Rotating emotion, love of the pound,Instead of really loving, we give in.So much worthless money, blindly misspent,Thrown away to boost the ego’s coffer,Mechanically wrapped, of love not a scent,Another meaningless, “…
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Christmas Traditions by Kelli King | Advent 2018 Day 6
Christmas Traditions By Kelli King I love Christmas music. I especially love songs that make me imagine what Christmas is like in other places. My top places to imagine spending Christmas have always been New York City, London, Paris, some enchanting village in Ireland or Germany, and more recently, I…
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Silent Night by Rowena Curtin | Advent 2018 Day 5
Silent Night By Rowena Curtin “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need…
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Why You Should Learn to Communicate Better With Your Spouse by Holly Geely | Advent 2018 Day 4
Why You Should Learn to Communicate Better With Your Spouse By Holly Geely “I need shortbread, now! At least a hundred!” Will’s shout woke Jerry, who woke up and switched on his bedside lamp. A brief check confirmed it was two o’clock in the morning. “We don’t have any flour,”…
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The Advent Calendar by Geoff Le Pard | Advent 2018 Day 3
The Advent Calendar By Geoff Le Pard ‘What is it, Mum?’ Emily Smith, fourteen, looked up from her book. Gilly, her mother, said, ‘A parcel from Uncle Augustus.’ ‘Who is Uncle Augustus?’ ‘I don’t really know. Someone on your father’s side. Do you remember the man you said looked like…
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Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner | Advent 2018 Day 2 – 1st Sunday of Advent
Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner The postal elve frowned. Something like this had never happened to him since he started his long career many years ago. He called his colleague without taking his eyes of the two neatly written letters on his desk, “Cristel, come and look at this!”…
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In Santa’s Shadow by Trent P. McDonald | Advent 2018 Day 2 | 1st Sunday of Advent
In Santa’s Shadow By Trent P. McDonald Voices where emerging from the kitchen. Loud voices. Chet knew that Mom and Ty were arguing. Again. He couldn’t make out anything more than single words here and there, little blasts of clarity through the heated rumble. His stomach turned over and twisted into knots. Why did they have…
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Chocolate Countdown by Tara Paray | Advent 2018 Day 1
Chocolate Countdown By Tara Paray As this Advent Calendar blog series gets underway (again! — yay!) and Advent for Christians starts tomorrow, I’m beginning my countdown today with a very special calendar. I’ve had Advent calendars made of paper with little date windows you open. I’ve also had the kind…
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A flowery surprise
The teargas had us coughing and crying. Our path was sprinkled with protesters about to engage in a streetfight. When we finally put some distance between us and the angry mob, the fresh air of the empty park was a very good reason to smile. Still, we did not linger,…
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The 4th Edition of the Advent Calendar Needs You!
One month until Christmas It is the 25th of November! And you know that means that in a month from now you’ll be stuffed with nice food, will have gift wrap torn to pieces all over the place (or neatly folded in a corner of the room), you’ll have piles…
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The perfect gift
I always feel that it super tough to come up with the perfect gift, especially if the person, who I want to spoil already has everything and doesn’t want anything in particular or even worse, buys everything they want right away.
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If we were having coffee (17/11/2018)
Don’t look at me like that! I know, I have been a bad coffee sharer lately, I didn’t have the time or energy to visit many blogs the last time I participated. And for some time now my 30 to 31 challenge has been a bit dormant. But what can…
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If we were having coffee (on the 4th of November 2018)
If we were having coffee today, then you’d tell me that I don’t look fresh. I’d reassure you and tell you that I am a whole lot better. But I have been sick for over a week, therefore I did not have you over for coffee last week. You’d probably…
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