You’d think by the time an issue of Angels on Earth comes out in print, I would have seen enough of it. Think again. It’s always a treat for me to read a new issue like a “real reader” gets to.

This week's contribution was written by Guideposts senior editor Celeste McCauley.

It’s not so out of the ordinary that 18-year-old Ben Breedlove would make his own video and post it on YouTube. After all, he had shot many already, a series of segments dishing out advice to teens.

If you believe in angels, you’re in good company.

A friend sent me a link just before Christmas, and I forgot all about it till this morning: According to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in the beginning of December, 77 percent of Americans believe in angels.

This picture pretty much sums up what I did over the holidays of 2011. Besides being filled with Nativity sets and Christmas angels galore, the Hughes Family living room was filled with cousins. And we were still three cousins short of the whole crew! (We missed you, Fuery, Jesse and Finn.)

The newest member of the group is little Jude, in the navy striped shirt. At almost nine months, he doesn’t quite have the hang of crawling yet, so he rolls to where he wants to go. It works!

Today’s guest-blogger is Angels on Earth editorial assistant Kelly P. Gallagher.

Growing up, our Christmas tree was never decorated with elaborate lights or tons of tinsel. Instead, my mother used mismatched hand-me-down bulbs.

There was one thing that made our tree special, though. Instead of the little angels and stars that everyone else used on their trees, we had a German tree topper called a Christbaumspitze, or spitze for short.

My little angel Evie turns nine years old this Christmas Eve. So far she hasn’t noticed that it’s kind of hard having a December birthday. We’ve been lucky—most of her friends have been able to come to her parties, which we’ve always thrown on Christmas Eve itself. Parents are generally happy to have a few hours to themselves this time of year, to ready the house for holiday company or do very last-minute shopping.

Someone once said, “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”

I’m too much of a shoveler.

Today’s guest-blogger is Angels on Earth editorial assistant Kelly P. Gallagher.

After I learned that I had been hired at Angels on Earth, I was thrilled. But how would I find my way around New York?

As a lifelong upstate resident, the city seemed like a bustling swarm of strangers. I pored over maps and train schedules, planning my new commute down to the minute. I just had to remember to catch the Port Jervis train.

Things I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving: My family, of course—mine’s the best. I’m thankful for my job as editor-in-chief of Angels on Earth, where I have the pleasure of discovering true stories about angels, both heavenly angels and earth angels.

Sometimes I like to surf around the Web in idle moments, and just now I found myself Googling ... take a wild guess ... angels!

I was happy to see that Angels on Earth magazine popped up on all the terms I was searching for, but I wanted to see what else was in store.

Googling “earth angels” got me a cute, contemporary folk-art store, which looks like a really fun place to work, and a dog rescue not-for-profit for those animal angels needing a good home.