Christmas Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/christmas/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:01:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/lisapullenkent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-daisies-2485064_1920-1-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christmas Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/christmas/ 32 32 52246340 The Greatest Gift https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:52:12 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2022 When I was young, I married my best friend. It’s a cliché easy to dismiss as sentimental until it happens to you. In my husband, I found my home. Now, ensconced in midlife and traversing the terrain of family life, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/feed/ 2 2022 And So This Is Christmas … Let The Grief In https://lisapullenkent.com/and-so-this-is-christmas-let-the-grief-in/ https://lisapullenkent.com/and-so-this-is-christmas-let-the-grief-in/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:45:18 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1818 It’s late December, only days to Christmas. The kids are out of school and it’s dark already at 4:30 pm. All the lights burn in the kitchen where my husband is busy making sugar cookies with our girls. Flour dusts … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/and-so-this-is-christmas-let-the-grief-in/feed/ 6 1818 To Believe or Not to Believe https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:26:37 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1548 “Mom, is Santa real?” My youngest shouts this over the top of Katy Perry’s “Roar” playing on the radio as I’m dodging traffic on Providence Road, trying to get to gymnastics. I shouldn’t be surprised that questions of this magnitude … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/feed/ 0 1548 Enough https://lisapullenkent.com/enough/ https://lisapullenkent.com/enough/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:05:51 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1539 I actually did it. For once I followed through on a threat. I’ve battled my children for years — no, decades — over the condition of their bedrooms. When the eldest two were teens, I all but conceded the fight. … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/enough/feed/ 0 1539 Snow Day https://lisapullenkent.com/snow-day/ https://lisapullenkent.com/snow-day/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:09:25 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1029 I fall for it every time; I get sucked in as soon as the text buzzes on my cell phone, the email lands in my inbox, and the answering machine picks up the recording (no more need to check the … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/snow-day/feed/ 0 1029 Just Like That https://lisapullenkent.com/just-like-that/ https://lisapullenkent.com/just-like-that/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:40:50 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=980 Aaaaaaand just like that, Christmas is over.  The preparation, the anticipation, the actualization; come and gone for another year.  My beautiful live tree adorned in sparkling red and gold is dead, morphed into an endearing Dr. Suess caricature; its pliant … Continue reading →

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