Priorities: What have you lost in the bustle of Christmas? I can’t find my glasses!

2 stockings hanging by fireplace

Priorities and Christmas Time

The two concepts almost don’t seem to go together. What have you lost in the bustle of Christmas?  So far this year, it has been my glasses!  I am going to have to make finding my glasses one of my priorities. I am afraid that I have boxed them off and mailed them to Denver.  Fortunately, I mailed them early enough that they should arrive at my daughter’s for Christmas.  And she is kind enough that she will mail them back.

We are so trying to be the Mom.  You know, the Mom who has it all together.  The Mom whose house is clean.  The Mom whose house people want to come to.  The house of peace and calmness. The Mom who bakes delicious food from scratch everyday and everyone loves it.

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Working with Hearing Impaired: 14 Ideas to Help Your Communication

Large group of people eating: one on one conversations are easier for the hearing impaired to understand

This article is entitled, ’14 ideas to help your communication with the hearing impaired’ but this article could also be called, “How to be a good wife when your husband is going deaf.” This is our story. It’s personal.

It is hard to go from hearing well to being hearing impaired. Are you or someone you love facing this?

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