Have you read Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis? My Book Club Society is currently reading it. Fascinating. I’m still undecided on all my thoughts and feelings about it, but we have had some GLORIOUS discussions. So thought-provoking. At the end of the fifteenth chapter, I placed myself in Orual’s robes and these are […]
My Favorite Delightful Books Read in 2022
Another year of reading is almost to the finish line.And then we get to begin again!Reading forever! 🙂I’m quite convinced my TBR and TBRR {to-be-re-read} stacks and lists are going to long outlive me. On the one hand this is so sad, on the other it’s so good to know I have so many books […]
Bits and Pieces to Delight In {September}
“Being scared isn’t really that much different than being scarred.” I read it on Ann Voskamp’s blog. It’s true. I nod my head. Read further.Tears prick my eyelids and squeeze at the corners. Scared and scarred both carry trauma and pain. Truth is, it doesn’t even have to be big or deeper traumas. It shows […]
Ann Voskamp Bookset Giveaway {Reading for Your Summer}
{affliate links in this post, friends. thank-you!} Comrades ~ it’s a bookstack day!Kansas is showing off a perfect summer day today.Blue, blue skies, white puffy clouds. 103 degrees.Combines gobbling the wheat as harvest rolls along. It’s lemonade in sweating glasses.It’s float in the pool.It’s grab a book and head for the hammock in the evening […]
The Flirtation Experiment
affiliate links in this post, comrades! thank you! Just in time for Valentine’s Day! It’s a giveaway for a copy of The Flirtation Experiment.This book is authored by Lisa Jacobsen and Phylicia Masonheimer. I appreciate the dual perspective we receive. Lisa has been married for nearly thirty years and Phylicia married for seven. Both bring […]
The Growing Season Giveaway
One of my favorite autumn colors is baby wheat shining green. We’re right in the midst of wheat drilling. The freshly cultivated fields with the lines and furrows in the dirt are ever a source of beauty to me. We had a few fields sowed and then, as It Does, the rain fell. We have […]
May Musings
Let’s chat about beauty and gratitude and all the places and books where we’re finding hope and encouragement and anticipation these days of May! I’ll go first. 🙂 1. ANTICIPATE At this very moment, as write these words, I’m anticipating my parents coming to visit and a graduation celebration for Tucker. We’re in the throes […]
Twas The Morning Of Easter Picture Book
Have you had winter and cold temperatures in your part of the country? We certainly have! Today it’s in the forties and sounds like we’re supposed to see sixties this week. I won’t turn that down. After below zero lows and gray, icy days, I’m doubly grateful for sunshine. Friday’s sunshine gave me pangs for […]
Tested and Approved
“Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.” ~ Proverbs 19:20-21 These two verses are on the inside front cover flap in the book I bring us today.We […]
Little Mole’s Christmas Gift
This Thursday brings us a super sweet book with a great big lesson in generosity and kindness. Little Mole’s Christmas Gift.Little Mole has found the absolutely perfect Christmas gift for his dear mama. But as he makes his journey home, he encounters his woodland friends who need a helping hand until his gift for mama […]
Holy Land Illustrated Bible
I’m a homebody much, much, much of the time. I deeply love and appreciate cozy home. Thus, I’m not a world traveler nor have ever aspired to become one. Still, I do have a list of places I’d love to visit and Israel is one of them. On this note, I’m happy to announce……….. ToDaY, […]
Beautiful Word Coloring Bible For Girls
As the calendar counts off the days in November, I’ve been counting gratefulness AND I’ve been anticipating Christmas. As I anticipate, I’ve been contemplating the HOPE Christmastime represents. If I were asked to describe the season in one word, that would be the word right now. Christmas embodies hope.Christmas gives the best gift by offering […]
Read a Bit {The Key to Love}
When this book title popped into my inbox as one to review, several details caught my attention and drew me in. A bakery named The Pastry Puff Set in Kansas! In a town named Story. Petit fours A Book Club discussing Pride & Prejudice A love of Paris French macarons thanks to Revell for sending […]
Though the Fig Tree Does Not Bud {Habakkuk Bible Study}
The words were beautiful.They spoke of such hope. Of deep faithfulness. Of choosing gratitude, despite.Perhaps they resonated because of my perchance to wince and complain, grumble and frown. The dishes had stacked up. While my back was turned. I’d only left the kitchen to lay wooden track in place and help my little son arrange […]
Pages and Project {Dayspring Journaling Bible, Awaking Wonder, and The Lazy Genius Way}
Happy September my friends and comrades! I have so many things to share with you in this first post for September. Two books, two journaling Bibles, two new flexis and the coming Gracie flexi for September, keychains and enamel pins from Gracelaced, a current board book giveaway, my felt hats project, new stickers from The […]
Grandma Snuggles
Snuggles and cuddles and hugs, oh my! This book is bringing them! Each two-page spread in this board book by Glenys Nellist features an animal with rhyming words about snuggling intermingled with the way God cares for us. Let’s look inside! {Plus, a giveaway for a copy of this book at the bottom of the […]
Read a Bit {Gracie’s Garden}
I’ve been crushing on this children’s book ever since it arrived in my mailbox as a review from B&H/Lifeway. It has a multitude of delightful details. There’s truly oodles of things to love about the components of this picture book. Thinking about them makes me happy. Typing this out to share with you makes me […]
