Me too

Merry Christmas, Santa Vader

HOW TO: Wrap Gifts

Every Christmas season, I am thankful to QuizWedge's mother who taught me how to wrap gifts at my very first paying job. (I wrapped hundreds of gifts for her clients.) But every year, I have to carefully dig up the lessons from memory and work hard to warm up the old muscle memory. So, as a service to Mod-Bloggers (and everyone else), RealSimple.Com has up a great how-to on wrapping gifts. If your presents always wind up looking like a mish-mash, this may be the key to improving your presentation!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of the Mod-Bloggers out there: writers, readers, and commenters! May the celebration of our savior's birth truly bring you "peace on Earth and goodwill to men".

Human greed knows no bounds... but shame is there right behind it

This story doesn't require much commment.

A British father faked a burglary at his home and claimed his daughter’s Christmas presents were stolen in a bid to get more gifts from sympathetic neighbors, local media reported Monday...

Unemployed Wood then posed for photographs for his local newspaper with his two-year-old daughter Abbey, saying Christmas was ruined.

However, he admitted the scam to police hours after the newspaper story was published, saying he could not live with the shame of using his little girl.

Crimes like this are always found out, whether thru good police work or thru good old feelings of shame. If you're in a tough spot, don't go to the low road. Ask for help. You can usually find someone willing to step up.

Wait, what?!

Ladies Ensemble from Christmas Eve

I thought my Mod-Blog friends might enjoy this little bit from our local Christmas Eve service

Handbells from Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas from the Nomad

May this day bring you joy and peace, as we remember the birth of the Savior of the World. Thank you, Lord, for sending your own Son to live among us, die for us, and rise to show us your victory!

Christmas Cynicism

Preach it, Brother Schultz!

One more Merry, Merry to all Mod-Bloggers

Merry Christmas from the Nomad

Merry Christmas Eve

No, this is NOT the bell choir that CRChair and I take part in, but I appreciate the skill and arrangement here.

Double Standards

Irony, Thy Name is Human Nature

Soothing Nerves

Yesterday's post appears to have frazzled some nerves. Here is a more calming post from this past weekend's Christma concert at our church. Thanks to CRChair for acting as videographer.

A little post-Christmas cynicism

Merry Christmas From Mod-Blog!

And for those who may be lacking a candlelight service or who simply love good Christmas music, enjoy this little clip of "Unto Us a Child Is Born" from Shadowmom.

Photographing Christmas LIghts

For the intrepid photographers among us, Christmas is a great time to shoot interesting light displays. This video does a good job of explaining the way to get the most out of these kinds of shots.