The rustling of wrapping paper and the sharp sound of Scotch tape tearing greeted me as I stepped through the basement door. I inhaled the scent of sugar cookies, my Grandma’s classic treat. No one made them like she did. Her basement was a busy bustle as aunts and cousins gathered to lend a hand […]
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 […]
In Which We Look Inside the Inspire Prayer Bible
Bible study. Beauty. Bible Journaling. Interacting with the text. Coloring. Creativity. Focusing on prayer. Writing out prayers. This beautiful Inspire Prayer Bible brings them all together. I’m so happily delighted to bring us this Bible + a giveaway this week. Tyndale sent me these Bibles to review. There are so many lovely details and features […]
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 […]
Gifting A Neighbor As They Re-Establish Hearth and Home
This morning I’m considering… What would I especially wish for if I had to replace all my earthly possessions? In the Kingdom of God, we know value and life and eternal significance lies in things unseen and beyond our physical realm of life here. However, many of us are given lives filled with dishes and […]
Half the Battle
The wind blew in fierce yesterday afternoon. It was sunshine and ninety degrees with a very large side of windy. It calmed in the evening and then hit again about nightfall in full, shrieking fierceness. I’d left a couple of windows open in the kitchen. Before anyone had the presence of mind to close them, […]
The Beauty of Little Acts of Kindness Matters
Last week, in the middle of a few busy days, my son slid the mail pile onto my kitchen island. It’d been bumping around in the farm pickup. My farmer man had plucked it all out of the mailbox right after lunch. Now, late afternoon found me flipping through it. Smack in the middle was […]
Pages & Projects {Felt Party Hats and Little Mole’s Christmas Gift}
Happy October!We’ve been utterly and completely blessed with GOING-ON-THREE-WEEKS of absolutely gorgeous autumn weather. There’s been little wind, cool nights, and seventy to eighty degree days. It’s warmed right up several afternoons, but if I’ve closed the house up it stays cool enough and then I throw the front door and windows back open as […]
Wherein We Have a Cozy Autumn Movie Giveaway
Ushering in Autumn My front door is happily open and the white screen door with the pretty bric-a-brac, stands more smartly at attention, proud to usher merry little breezes across the threshold. They pull and tug at the ribbon tails fluttering above the geometric golden wreath adorning the happily open door. Distant barking echoes across […]
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 […]
In Which I Muse About Assurance
Assurance could look like a signed contract. It might be in the number of place value holders stamped on our bank statement. Assurance may feel like meal plans or lesson plans, vacation plans or run-away-from-Nineveh-plans. Assurance sometimes disdainfully and smugly plants itself in the territory of how-right-I-am. Perhaps assurance comes in the form of a […]
A Simple Tuesday in 2020
On a simple Tuesday morning, in the midst of August, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty… I’m anticipating… • that life will not always be as it is today. In an upheaval and uncertainty of days. In a madness of strong opinions and fears on either end of the pendulum. In […]
Pages and Projects {Stand All the Way Up}
My parents and niece visited us for a little over a week at the end of July. It was so good to have them here again. We cooked a cajun boil and worked on a puzzle. {Completed puzzle picture below} We ordered food at a drive-thru a couple of times and motored over to eat […]
Seven Feasts Bible Study
Hey friends! What are you looking forward to this week? I’ve told Matthew several times how strange I find it for this year to feel loooong in some ways, yet at the same time here we are closing July out already! I’m quite delighted to bring you a giveaway today for a new Bible study […]
