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My Awesome Christmas Picture Book List With Easiest Ever Picture Book Advent Idea

Posted on December 3, 2025 by treeoflifemama

It’s Christmas picture book time!!!! I’m so excited!!! Here are just some of the books I’ve collected through the decades of being a mom, picture book lover, and Christmas fan. Most of these books I found at thrift stores. Some … Continue reading →

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Jan 2025 Things that Made Me Smile: Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real and Smart Things

Posted on February 26, 2025 by treeoflifemama

This is soooo late, but I’m finally getting it up before February is over! Here are the pretty, happy, funny, smart and/or interesting things I smiled at in January 2025. On New Year’s Day I got to play Settlers of … Continue reading →

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Debriefing My Christmas 2024/Things that Made Me Happy December 2024

Posted on January 27, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Our Christmas 2024 was so fabulous! I am still basking in the loveliness of it. Even though it’s the end of January. I believe in Keeping Christmas in January. I love this podcast here by a Catholic couple, Phil and … Continue reading →

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A New Year of Study for Come, Follow Christ by Studying His Servant, the Prophet Joseph Smith

Posted on January 5, 2025 by treeoflifemama

This year of 2025 the theme of study for my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is church history/the Pearl of Great Price/the Doctrine and Covenants. We get to focus on the restoration of the gospel of … Continue reading →

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Little-known Insights into the Nativity Story for Your Post-Christmas Day Musings

Posted on December 27, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Merry Days after Christmas! I always love to ponder on the real Christmas story for the days leading up to AND after Christmas. I hope you do too. How lovely that in the darkest time of year many people focus … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to A Christmas Carol: Published on December 19, 1843

Posted on December 19, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Happy Birthday to A Christmas Carol! Charles Dickens first published this book on December 19, 1843. Did you know he wrote it to encourage Londoners to donate money to the poor? He also wrote it to earn money to get … Continue reading →

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A Christ-Centered Family Christmas Tradition: Counting Down the Week Before With a Nativity Set

Posted on December 15, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Today I’m sharing both a picture book, that you can read alone or as part of a Christmas Picture Book Advent series, and a NEW-for-me set of family traditions I’m doing this year. Both are based on this book for … Continue reading →

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2024 Picture Book Advent: The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree

Posted on December 13, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Today I’m sharing this beautiful Christmas picture book, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, by Gloria Houston, illustrated by Barbara Cooney. If you don’t know who Barbara Cooney, is, go here. She is a famous, amazing illustrator! I got … Continue reading →

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How to Simplify Christmas So You Have Less Stress, More Peace, and More Joy!

Posted on December 11, 2024 by treeoflifemama

If walking through the aisles of Christmas stuff at Target or Hobby Lobby at Christmastime makes you feel overwhelmed, this is for you! At the risk of sounding like a Grinch with the middle name of Scrooge, I’m sharing this … Continue reading →

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Things that Made Me Smile in November 2024: Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real, Kind and Smart

Posted on December 9, 2024 by treeoflifemama

We’re over a week into December, so it’s high time I did this! Welcome to my monthly recap of the previous month of November 2024. This is where I share, inspired by this blog over here by Leila Lawler, the … Continue reading →

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