Welcome to the 3rd Annual Pearl Girls™ 12 Pearls of Christmas blogging series, y'all! We've gathered several of today's most beloved authors to share their Christmas "Pearls of Wisdom"! Please follow along beginning tomorrow (Wednesday the 14th) through Christmas day as Tricia Goyer, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Rachel Hauck, Sandy Ralya, Sibella Giorello, Susan May Warren and more, including yours truly, share our heartfelt stories of how God

Hey everyone! Welcome back to the ATS porch! I greet you from Houston where I'm getting tons of baby sugar from our newest addition to the family. My daughter and her husband welcomed Connor Phillip Maher into the family this past Monday, the 5th at 11:46 pm. He is absolutely and completely adorable. You can see for yourself at my blog:http://www.shellierushingtomlinson.wordpress.com or on my Facebook

He was born in 1940 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware by parents who taught their kids to play hard, work harder, and serve others. His first love was baseball. His skills earned him a baseball scholarship to Wake Forest University where he lettered three years and earned a spot in the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame. At age twenty-two he signed with the Philadelphia

Mrs. Bobbie is one of those precious unsung heroes that walk among us. She’s a school teacher and an exceptionally good one. She been teaching second grade over at the elementary school for the last twenty years at least. Mrs. Bobbie looks at her job as more than a profession. She considers it her life’s calling. She invests herself in every child, firmly believing that