Handpies. Isn’t the name itself enchanting? Because who doesn’t want pie you can hold in your hand?! Well, unless, of course, you don’t care for pie……..then, well, then you’re probably not even reading this post. Because it stands to reason, if you don’t like pie, most likely you aren’t doing long Google searches for pie, […]
In Which I Think About Special Days and Friendship
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for […]
Rejoice! Be Glad! And Give Him Glory.
Rain drip, drip, drops from the sky and the eaves this morning. It sounds companionable and cozy. Gray skies hug around the house and I curl my hands around the warmth of my brightly flowered coffee mug. I sip the coffee, this brew I finally managed to make after wrangling with our Keurig a bit. […]
Ten Of My Favorite Candy Bars
I love all the little fun things life has to offer and for this Tuesday in August, I’m thinking about candy bars! Do you have a favorite candy bar???? I don’t know if I have ONE absolute favorite when it comes to candy bars. I have several I really love, but it can depend […]
I’m Happy Today
🎶🎶 I’m happy today, Oh, yes, I’m happy today, in Jesus Christ, I’m happy today, Because He’s taken all my sins away! And that’s why I’m happy today! 🎶🎶 . . . Yesterday afternoon, I hosted my sister-in-law and a few friends and my four little nieces, of course, to celebrate her 30th birthday. As […]
Tuc and Gramps
Do you know what I see when I look at this picture? I see grace, great grace and beautiful love poured out on me. That’s my Dad. And that’s my son. My little, bitty blondie boy with the best laugh ever, who grew up when I happened to glance away for a millisecond or two. […]
Ten Takes on Book Suggestions for Readers
July has crept into August. Locusts hum outside and the hot hay-aroma of freshly mown grass hangs in the late afternoon air. I’m never quite ready to see summer slip silently towards autumn. And before it does, let’s sneak in a few more days of water splashing and hammock-laying and lazy afternoons of reading. […]
One Favorite Color
I love color. God could have given us a world of black and white, but He didn’t. He spoke it into existence and He splashed it brilliantly and vibrantly with a rainbow of colors and hues upon hues. Isn’t it incredible?! Yes, I love most any and all colors. There are a few I wouldn’t […]
What a Wonderful Day
What a wonderful day! I’ve never seen this one before! ~ Maya Angelou I shared this quote in my Instagram space about a month ago. I love it and the words lingered in my mind. A few days ago, I pulled out my box of gold letters and sorted through and spelled out this beautiful […]
Pages and Projects {Just Open the Door and All The Colors That I See}
This Pages & Project Wednesday finds me with a couple read & review books from B&H/Lifeway. The first one is Just Open the Door by Jen Schmidt. I’ve read her blog occasionally at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam. Isn’t that a fun name? And so true!! She’s written this book about hospitality and letting go of […]
We Never Outgrow the Blessing of an Act of Kindness
I looked forward to my birthday every summer with great anticipation. We’d choose our favorite foods or menu or meal. And we’d choose chocolate or white or yellow cake. Because as Julia Child says, “A party without a cake is just a meeting. My mother would bake up the cake in a 9×13 Pyrex and […]
Celebrating with a Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory Giveaway
It’s our last giveaway for July and it’s a very, very fun and happy one! Sew a Fine Seam is joining us today and giving away this pillow! Thank-you, thank-you Jill! Yay! {To new friends around here who may not know, Jill is my sister and she makes handcrafted and stitched pillows! She’s shared some […]
Placing Rejoice on Repeat
Place Rejoice on repeat. . This is my reminder to myself on this beautiful new Saturday morning. July 28, 2018 has never been here before and won’t be again. Mystery, that. The elusiveness of time and sometimes the elusiveness of rejoicing in every good day the way I long to. . Rejoice. . rejoice for […]
Celebrating With a CSB Womens Study Bible Giveaway
Our month of July giveaways is about to reach the end! We have one more after this one. {Psssttt….it’s sponsored by Sew a Fine Seam!!!} Today, I’m giving away this Study Bible for Women. I’ve had a women’s study Bible I love for a little over nine years. I received this one to review […]
Ten Things I Would Encourage Myself to Press Into Twenty Years Ago
How’s that for a title? 🙂 What would you tell yourself, your younger self, if you could? Here’s the thing. I’m still learning. Perhaps, I would tell myself these things twenty or twenty-five or thirty years ago. And perhaps I would learn them a bit sooner. But I don’t know. I’m still trying to grasp […]
Celebrating With a Summer Blessing Giveaway
SUMMER BLESSING GIVEAWAY 2018 Hello friends! To start off the final week of July, {oh my goodness, in a total aside, WHOOSH, where did July go??? Final week already???? Summer always, always flies by too quickly for me}{ack!!!!}BUT, to start off our final week and our July celebration of giveaways, it’s our Summer Blessing […]
The Grace of Breath
It’s in sunlight streaming around well-loved patio chairs. It’s in rough hard-working hands building tables. It’s in cheerful mockingbird trills and chatter. It’s in good morning kisses. It ripples right through a puppy dog as she drops her favorite green rope at your feet. Shared adventures sing of it and gritty sand and shells do […]
