Last night’s posting was a bit dark, and I do apologize. Chalk it up to the pregnancy hormones! Anyway, so I looked at Direction for Our Times this morning to see the message for January, and lo and behold: Abandon yourself to My providence completely. Serve with discipline in this moment and I will care … [Read more…]
Is it New Year’s Eve Already? Wow… time is just flying by! I hope you are all continuing to have a blessed Christmas! Before this year officially ends, I want to issue a belated congratulations to my sister, who graduated this December. She got her BS degree several years ago, but wanted to go back … [Read more…]
First try… great picture, except for sweet little Grace who decided to have a moment… …and a not-quite-as-good picture, but at least Grace is back into the spirit of things!
Nothing starts your day off right quite like a a good breakfast. (well, of course there’s the “spending time with the Lord” aspect which REALLY starts the day off right, but I’m talking food, here.) Over the years, my ideas of the perfect breakfast have changed. Growing up, I chose toast and tea every morning … [Read more…]
Where have I been??? Good grief… I turn around and a week has gone by already! I’m sorry I left such a depressing post up at the top for so long. I had no intention of doing that, and yet with all the inevitable bustling of this season, computer time had to fall by the … [Read more…]
I’m hesitant to even post this, but I take great comfort in the fact that (a) writing things down usually makes it better and (b) there aren’t many people reading this anyway, so the whole world isn’t going to think I’m some sort of freak. Only a few of you will, but I think I … [Read more…]
‘Cause seriously, I need to. This man deserves SERIOUS accolades. Remember how we’ve been doing that whole “keeping the Sabbath day holy” thing by getting all our work done on Saturday? And how Saturday has turned into a somewhat frantic dash at times to get all the stuff done (so I won’t go nuts on … [Read more…]
Three weeks of illness running through the family.Two solid days of rain.One tired Mommy who just can’t whip up another lunch out of leftovers, and is stranded without a car. We punt! A little pizza delivered to our front door and “Little House…” should do the trick! (Or, as my kids have taken to calling … [Read more…]
I know most of you don’t know Allison. That’s OK. She’s a dear friend of mine, however, and I dearly wanted to celebrate her birthday with her today. With sick kids… alas… ’twas not meant to be. So, in honor of her birthday, I’m posting this clip which hopefully will bring a smile to her … [Read more…]
(picture taken from Cooking Light magazine) You asked for it, you got it! It looks heavenly, doesn’t it? If you can’t wait for the chance to try this recipe (and believe me, it tastes even better than it looks, if that were possible!), make your way over to Cooking Light and see just how easy … [Read more…]