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 […]
Celebrating With a Young Living Giveaway
I’ve been using essential oils for five years now! I can’t believe it’s been that long. I don’t think I’ve ever held a giveaway for oils. When I was thinking about celebrating through July with giveaway favorites, it occurred to me to definitely give away some oils! I really love my oils and use them […]
Ten Quick Memories Of My Years With My Man and My Kiddos
Ok, gang! {That was the first greeting that popped in my head as I set out to type this post. Then, it made me giggle! But I went with it, all the same. Maybe, because of the giggle. I find beginning and ending blogposts a bit challenging at times. Not always. But sometimes. I think […]
Celebrating With Stickers From The MeadowLarke and Bible Journaling
How about some succulents and tacos to get our week started out right…….even if they come in the form of hand drawn sticker sheets!!! Woot! Woot! This is our giveaway today! These stickers are hand drawn by my niece, Larke. To say I love them is to say it in a very understated way. […]
Celebrating With a Lilla Rose Symphony Flexi Giveaway
Every Friday I find myself asking in my head, “Where HAS the week gone?” And every time I turn the calendar page to a new month, I wonder the same thing. Except, “month” instead of “week”. July is sneaking towards half over! We have winners for our GraceLaced giveaway and our Magnolia Journal giveaway. Yay! […]
Ten Favorite Childhood Memories
Last week I walked down memory lane and posted ten birthday gifts I received and loved SO MUCH when I was a kid. This week I have ten childhood memories. These things were often part of our daily life and were some of the little things I loved then. 1. Going to town to get […]
Celebrating With a Giveaway From Livvie + Hazel
Good morning! Good Monday! Good new week! Continuing on with our July celebration, here’s our third giveaway! {Hop over here if you haven’t read the “why” of celebrating our way through July!} For those that have read the why, Carry On! 🙂 Livvie + Hazel just launched their beautiful, new line of jewelry! It […]
His Workmanship
The handiwork of God snuggled securely in a little seed. It grows. Roots. Shoots. Reaches. Slowly, interceptibly becoming. Stronger. Taller. Ready to produce. And then tiny buds emerge. Linger. Lengthen. Begin to bloom in edged, intricate detail. Tiny flower + tiny flower + tiny flower coming together in one glorious hydrangea display. […]
Play On
Play on. . . Bow hums across the violin. Fingers press piano keys. Guitar pick finds guitar strings. . . Play on. . . Pen pressed on paper. Keyboard taps. Canvas waiting, empty, blank. . . Play on. . . Scrubbing at the stuck on spots. Corralling clutter everywhere. Folding tidy washcloth squares. . . […]
Celebrating with a Magnolia Journal Giveaway
Hey friends! The second giveaway to celebrate our way through July! This giveaway is for……………… wait for it…….wait for it………. a set of four Magnolia Journal magazines! This set is Volume two through five….. the premier issue stands alone! This magazine looked fun to me last year and I decided to give it a try. […]