{"id":4565,"date":"2023-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:49:33","slug":"making-it-through-the-holidays-with-little-ones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/making-it-through-the-holidays-with-little-ones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it Through the Holidays with Little Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This post is written from the perspective of looking back through the years on a spectrum of holiday memories; some make me smile while others I’m glad are in my rearview mirror. Christmas on the horizon (okay, just eight weeks away) doesn’t cause a panic attack anymore. I must admit; however, during those intense child-rearing years there were times I didn’t think I would make it to the end of the day much less the end of the season . . . but I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song, Christmas Shoes, came out the year after my husband died. The story in these lyrics hit tender places for many causing it to soar to the top of the charts for years. The line that always pulled at my emotions was, “Mama made Christmas good at our house.” If I didn’t already feel the need to meet this expectation in myself and my family, there was now a song to confirm my responsibility. As moms, we are the memory makers. As a single or widow-mom, the weight of this can be very heavy. Stress doesn’t look good on anyone. Grief plus stress can be an emotional train wreck waiting to happen. Christmas will be different without your loved one. There is no way to pretend that it won\u2019t be tender and downright hard. It is with this in mind that I share an accumulated basket of ideas for not only surviving the holidays but practical ways to prepare so that Christmas really is a special time for you and your children. Don\u2019t try to accomplish all of these in your first year. Pick and choose thoughts that might work for your family keeping in mind that I was making Christmas good at our house<\/em> for eight children. The best suggestion is to hold on tight to the Lord trusting in His promise to be with you. He will carry you through. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.”<\/em> Isaiah 26:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This post is written from the perspective of looking back through the years on a spectrum of holiday memories; some make me smile while others I’m glad are in my rearview mirror. Christmas on the horizon (okay, just eight weeks away) doesn’t cause a panic attack anymore. I must admit; however, during those intense child-rearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,29],"tags":[],"blog_author":[30],"authors_name":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"blog_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_author?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"authors_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectiveministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors_name?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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