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Home for Christmas… what thoughts does that inspire for you? Lee Tobin McClain here, thinking about the upcoming holiday season and what it means to be at home for Christmas.
Home for Christmas… what thoughts does that inspire for you? Lee Tobin McClain here, thinking about the upcoming holiday season and what it means to be at home for Christmas.
I’m a little jealous of people who actually go home for
Christmas. It has been many years since I’ve had one particular home place to
go for the holidays, but I imagine an old-fashioned house, like the one pictured on the cover of my Sacred Bond series' prequel novella:
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My own personal Christmas theme is more like “away for Christmas.” For
years, my family travelled to Florida at Christmastime to visit my mother (I
know, cry me a river here—that was so rough!). After she passed on and my husband left, my daughter and I started heading for Ohio to visit my sister’s
family during holidays. Since her husband is a pastor, he has to be “home for
Christmas,” which means that my daughter and I are always away. It also means
that the “home” we go to, my sister’s, has changed with some regularity, since
Methodist pastors move around a lot.
Even though I don’t have the traditional “home” for
Christmas, I recognize that I’m really
lucky to have family to be with. Being surrounded by people you care about is
what makes any holiday special, much more than the physical place where you’re
celebrating.
This year, my prequel novella, A Christmas Bond, is part of a Christmas anthology called “Home for
Christmas.” It's all about a ragtag group of boys, a lonely veteran, an even lonelier single
career woman, and
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So sure, you can buy the novella alone for 99 cents by clicking on the link above. But why would you when you can get it, plus six other wonderful Christmas stories, for the same price?
Thanks for reading! What does going home for Christmas mean to you? Comment for the chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card that will help you get started with some of the amazing Christmas sets that are available already this year. And stop by my website to sign up for my newsletter, grab a free Sacred Bond story, and find out about new releases and giveaways. I'd love to stay in touch!
10 comments:
Being home for Christmas to me means is being surrounding by my family. No matter where we are, just as long as we are together.
campbellamyd at gmail dot com
going home means happy chaos!
alysap at yahoo dot com
I would love to win this one every bit helps out.
heather hgtempaddy@hotmail.com
I know what you mean about Methodist minister's moving around a lot. My grandfather was a minister,growing up, my mother was always in a different town.
For me, home for Christmas is wherever my family is. I'm loving all of these Christmas box set novellas that are coming out!
The longer I am married and the older my children get, "going home" means staying home - The home I share with my husband and teenage children. The mad rush of getting to a few different homes over the course of a couple of days is exhausting. It's fun to see everyone, but I prefer to space it out over the month vs. cramming it all in a short window. The perfect Christmas is going to the Christmas eve service at church, spending the rest of the evening at home enjoying family time, and then waking up on Christmas morning to a yummy breakfast and gifts. What we do with the rest of our day is up to us, but usually enjoyable. - tlhcoupon(at)hotmail(dot)com
Just being home with my husband and my boys is enough for me for Christmas and I'm always so grateful for any time my family is together. Prayers and hugs!
Going home fopr christmas means I would see snow, visit with family and friends and enjoy the season. I live in Arizona, so Christmas to me means snow on the ground and participating in the activities of a snow season. I grew up on the slopes skiing and going sledding.
jwisley8(at)me(dot)com
Wouldn't we all like to "go home" for Christmas when our loved ones were alive and well?
Janet E.
von1janet(at)gmail(dot)com
DH and I have not been able to travel the past 3 Christmases, but our DD/family always come here....what fun!!!!
Would like to win the card.....and buy some Christmas stories!!
jacsmi75 at gmail dot com
As I have gotten older, there is hardly anytime to spend with family. All of my family has moved further and further away and life just gotten busier with deadlines. The Holidays is just the only time when we could get together.
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