Happy Valentine’s Day friends! I hope your day has been filled with sweet moments! I love Valentine’s Day. I really always have when I stop and think back to the wispy-mists-of-my-childhood-days. 🙂 {My son likes to make jokes on the order of my-first-camera-having-a-hood-to-duck-under-when-taking-photos and “Weren’t you a baby boomer?” 🙂 🙂 NOW. I’m not quite […]
Suffering is Never For Nothing and Even If Not
Is there anyone alive who hasn’t suffered? Brand-new birth and entrance to this world carries a good deal of suffering with it, albeit joy as well. Yet, the suffering precludes the joy of arrival. We enter this world in the throes of pain and suffering, for mama and baby alike. The pains and pangs of […]
The Wonder in Winter
Last week we were living in a fairy frostyland! It was so absolutely beautiful and breathtaking! In part, I’m sure, because I mostly was able to stay inside. 😊 . There’s something enchanting and magical about hoarfrost as it gathers and grows thicker, silently and invisibly. It frosts everything with pointed beauty, a cross between […]
Pages & Project {Girls’ Club}
I’m sharing books and yarn again today! I have a post about six books right over here and I’m sharing a few more pictures in this post. If you want to read the larger descriptions, pop over to the other post. Girls’ Club is a fantastic encouragement towards fostering friendship and relationships. I’ve really loved […]
Ten Things Breathing Life Into Me While Winter Plods Along
Over at The Modern Mrs. Darcy, she posts about what’s saving her life during this season. It’s fun to read what’s helping her and fun to read the comments. I began a comment and it ran much longer than I intended and then I decided it might as well come over here and I’d flesh […]
Ten Ways I Find Contentment
Contentment is found in…………. …delighting in the Lord! …giving grateful thanks! …trusting my God to know best. …choosing to see the beauty in every new day, every good day. …choosing Christ as my foundation. …confidence in Christ, come what may. …seeing the beauty in life, AND seeking it, even when I have to search harder. […]
In Which I Talk About Six Books
Books are so fun and inspiring! Let’s browse through six books on this Saturday morning! They’re all recent books I’ve had either to review or as part of the launch team. Everyday Generosity This book is all about living a lifestyle of generosity. It spurs us to think about giving in a variety of ways […]
Ten Memories I’m Grateful For From 2018
Every year holds its ups and downs, hopes and dreams, joys and disappointments, sorrows and happiness. They just do. 2018 wasn’t any different. We had many, many good, good days and we had days we were very glad to see end. Towards the end of the year, I opened my prayer journal/notebook and began a […]
Editing What Matters
We can edit until the edges are frayed. We can critique until the critics collapse. We can pinch and pull and prod trying to create a perfect pizza dough circle. We can count calories and carbs and check our Fitbit and check boxes trying to create a perfect image. We can pendulum swing from one […]
Wherein I Muse About BrainStorms
{My Definition} {With a Droll Bit of Banter} BrainStorm: | \ ˈbrān-ˌstȯrm (noun)1. A sudden tossing and whirling of everything in my brain, mixing it in a muddle. Happens unexpectedly and periodically without warning.2. Mental confusion and rattled concentration causing the brain to work in fits and starts.3. Sudden lightening flashes followed by booming, spell-binding […]
A Square Peg and Fitting In
Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in? The proverbial square peg… Most of my life, I’ve felt much like the proverbial square peg in a round hole. A rusty tractor in a shiny new lineup of equipment. A knobby-kneed donkey among beautiful, graceful horses. A dandelion set against dahlias. A rough draft stuck […]
Contentment: My Focus Word For 2019
Have you chosen a Focus Word for the Year? Did you have one in 2018? Where do you find your heart led as you consider 2019? Steadfast… 2017 was the first year I locked into a focus word and felt the heartbeat of it.Steadfast was my word and the deep longing of my heart and […]
Ten Handy Helpful Housewife Hints To Start Your Year Out Right
Friends!!! Happy New Year! And along with the New Year of 2019, we bring you another edition of Handy Helpful Housewife Hints!!! This kind of information and research, takes TIME and EFFORT, friends! I hope you realize the sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears that has gone into the compiling of this list. It is […]
The Glory of the Plan of God
Dear, dear Father, Thank you for all your good, good gifts. Help us, Lord, in your strength to fully live into today, this moment, pulling all the joy and happiness from it and seeing it in the people you have blessed us with. May we comprehend a tiny bit more the total unexplainable gift of […]
Our Reel of Time and the Real Highlight Reel
My calendar, my planner and my phone all report to me with today’s date as Thursday, December 20. As always, I want to argue a bit and demand at least one of the trio to tell me, where the days of 2018 have marched away to. Surely we cannot find ourselves only 11 days […]
What is Your Biggest Challenge or Struggle Today?
What is your biggest challenge or struggle right now? I like to hear answers to these types of questions when people want to share, but I confess sometimes I have a question, but am unsure of my OWN answer. 😄 Or, in this case, I may find myself thinking, “Narrow it down to one thing?!” […]
Living Life, Un-Canceled
I sat across from my friend at her kitchen island as we discussed pain. She wasn’t feeling her best and I told her she could’ve cancelled our plans. She looked me in the eye and replied, “You can’t cancel life.” I mulled these words over for a long time. It’s true. You can’t cancel […]
