christmas tree Archives - Kathryn Whitaker

A Christmas Tree Hunting We Go

Lotta sap, Clark. The weekend after Thanksgiving, we hit the road for Elgin to choose our Christmas tree. Scott and I have always been a real tree kinda family. Well, that first two years, we had our sweet little fake tree while we were graduate students and didn’t have two nickels to rub together. By…

Tree Down! Tree Down!

Oh, this is why I blog. Some moments of motherhood you just can’t make up. I always have people ask me how I come up with writing ideas on the blog. Answer? Will, John Paul, Anna-Laura, Clare and Luke. There is never a shortage people. Honestly, if I blogged about the whole of our life,…

HDYDI: Celebrate the Christmas Season

I suppose this post is really for my children. Long after I’m gone, I want them to know how much they’re loved, how much their lives were celebrated and how important God was in our home. Perhaps it was the events in Connecticut that reminded us all that life really is precious. You won’t find…

Advent: Trees!

I’m not sure how this one failed to jump in the queue, but here are the kids’ trees, along with the family tree. When I was a little girl, my mom made wreaths for each of us in the family and hung them on our bedroom doors. I loved that wreath. It made me feel…