New Year’s Eve morning in the Groomes Family looks quite different than most as anywhere from 60-80 people (ranging from 6 months to 80 years-old) cycle through our home chatting together while tasting roughly 3 dozen different varieties of pie. We call this Pie Breakfast, and it is our most treasured family tradition. 

The holidays bring people together, and the main events are usually special meals or gift exchanges. What about after the meal when the turkey tryptophan food coma sets in and the phones come out? While backyard football is fun for the ones who are still awake, it may not be something your great-aunt Sandy can do. There is a free way to wake up your guests and bring everyone together: Comedy Improv Games.

He erupted into the world—encapsulated Himself in flesh and blood, subjected Himself to time in order to live the perfect life for us, so that… He could obliterate the bounds of time and flesh and meet us Spirit to spirit, dwell in and among each of us forever and always. Paul’s explanation of what the Holy Spirit means for us overwhelms me when I hold it up against the feelings of inadequacy I have as a mother to be everything to my children.