Loving My Actual Christmas, Alexandra Kuykendall
Loving My Actual Christmas, Alexandra Kuykendall
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Loving My Actual Christmas
An Experiment in Relishing the Season

Author: Alexandra Kuykendall

Narrator: Alexandra Kuykendall

Unabridged: 3 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Alexandra Kuykendall

Alexandra Kuykendall is the author of Loving My Actual Life, Loving My Actual Christmas, and The Artist's Daughter. She is also cohost of The Open Door Sisterhood podcast. A popular writer and speaker for moms around the country, Alexandra has been featured on Good Morning America and Focus on the Family's daily broadcast. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, Derek, and their four daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Callie

4.5/5 stars. A little confession: I've struggled for the last several years to really enjoy the Christmas season. Maybe it's the extra pressure that comes from being a mom and having more people to juggle, maybe expectations outside our immediate family have ramped up...I don't know, but no matter ho......more

I chose to read this one because I saw it on a list of suggested Advent readings. This isn’t really a daily devotional-type reading, like I expected. Instead, it reads like the author’s personal experience with overhauling her holiday experiences in order to avoid burnout and over budgeting, and to......more

Goodreads review by Jayna

Nice practical look at someone balancing a Christ driven Christmas.......more

Goodreads review by Anne

"I am assuming we are alike in that yours is not a holiday filled with perfect gifts, impeccable decorations, and seamless relationships. That it is filled with constraints on time and money, and flawed people... And you want to enjoy this Christmas. The one right in front of you. This will be about......more

Goodreads review by Beth

Well thought out book that provides the reader with a good sense of how to go through the Christmas season without losing their mind. The first two-thirds of the book focus on Kuykendall's experience through one Advent and Christmas season. The last third is practical application of her experience t......more