Welcome new subscribers! At the bottom of this email or rss feed, you’ll find the link to the printable Family Bible Reading Plan! Hello friends, it has simply been one of those crazy seasons where you go, go, go and then fall into bed each night wondering where the day went… Except that most of […]
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Please Help! Plus My Most Favorite Crock Pot Dish!
In a shameless plea for help, I wanted to ask you for your most favorite crock pot dishes. I’m in the process of revising my 6 week meal rotation and I need to up the ante with crockpot dishes and bean dishes. My problem: the last 10 or so recipes we’ve tried have all failed […]
10 Cool Salads for HOT Summer Days
To say that I don’t want to cook in the summertime is an understatement. It is hot and the idea of heating up my kitchen just doesn’t appeal to me. So we grill and/or eat a lot of salads this time of year. I had a rather unfortunate incident with our grill a few […]
Harnessing the Power of Pinterest to Grow Creativity in our Children
It has been one full week. You know the kind of week where when you get the kids down each evening, you look at your husband and can’t put two coherant thoughts together… Each time I’ve sat down to write, there is simply nothing there. And so I head for bed because I know this […]
Teatime Talk and Popcorn Reading
Any other tea drinkers out there? Winter weather, even here in the Arizona desert, has a way of bringing out the teapots. In this B.O.Y. heavy house, I try every once in a while to help civilize them. My husband just rolls his eyes. I look at it as a way to not only prepare them for marriage […]
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
Memories are still quite vivid of my mom repeating this mantra to me over and over again during my homeschool journey as a child. Whenever I would be tempted to give up or frustrated, she would start reciting this little poem until I found myself doing it without her prompting. That habit still remains. Thanks […]