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Loving My Actual Christmas
Loving My Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season | Alexandra Kuykendall
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The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our schedules stuffed with too much to do in too little time. Following the formula of her successful Loving My Actual Life, Alexandra Kuykendall shares with readers her own personal experiment to be completely present in her life as it is during the holiday season. Addressing the themes of Advent and Christmas, she reflects on hope, love, joy, peace, and relishing the season, with practical pullouts on common Christmas stressors, such as finances, schedules, and extended family. Kuykendall's signature candor helps women go easy on themselves, remember what truly matters, and find joy in their imperfect Christmases.
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intothehallofbooks
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Mehso-so

I read this slowly after seeing it on a list for Advent reading. This is not so much a daily devotional-type read as it is the author‘s experience with trying to change up how her family operates around the holidays. Less busy-ness, more peace. She has great points and reminders, but I think perhaps I‘m not the target audience because I do not have very small children nor an extremely busy (frenzied) life. Others may appreciate it a little more.

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aecawthon
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Great read for busy Christian moms prior to the holiday season. It is a real, and honest approach to how to deal with false holiday expectations and keeping the holiday centered on Christ. Easy to follow and well- laid out. I highly recommend!