We started our week with cold and shivers and ended our week with beautiful weather and upper sixties. I liked the end of the week weather the very bestest!! November ended in a mild lovely way and December started in the same manner. So, so lovely~I’m just not that in to bundling up every time […]
Pumpkin Cake
I like sheet cakes and this Pumpkin Cake is another of our family favorites. It is simple, yummy and moist. I like sheet cakes because they make a good bit and don’t take a lot of time to make! Along with apple dumplings and apple crisp and pumpkin pie, I find myself thinking about this […]
Sales and Deals~Lilla Rose and Deborah & Co!
Black Friday has arrived and lots of sales and deals and shops to shop! {affiliate links included} I’m highlighting a few things that I love! Lilla Rose flexis!! BIG SALE!! Did you see that part? Lilla Rose is having a big, ginormous sale! 🙂 It truly is one of the best sales ever, since […]
Thankful Thursday 4 ~ Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s Thanksgiving Day! Wishing you a very blessed day. I am truly thankful for the multitudes of comforts and conveniences that are in our lives. I should never complain, but I do. YET, I am so very thankful. Sometimes I can feel guilty because of all that we have, but I also think […]
Playing Popcorn on the Trampoline
I’m not sure when or how this game got started, but my kiddos have played it for quite a while now. They came up with it and gave it the name. Popcorn on the Trampoline. My mother took some really fun pictures of the kiddos playing this game while she was here. You will need: […]
Memoir Monday {No. 6} Link-Up
This week is going to wrap November up for us! What did November hold for you? Come link up below… Hello cold mornings and hot drinks~ Hello to an early arrival for December’s flexi! Renae drew some flexi designs for fun and she made one with a snowflake centerpiece design very similar to this! 🙂 […]
Buy a Girl’s Ruffled Skirt and Get a Free One for Your Doll!
Deborah & Co. is offering a sale today and tomorrow as a prelude leading up to Black Friday sales! {Affiliate links in this post} This Friday and Saturday, November 22 and 23 for every girl’s Ruffled Skirt you purchase you will receive a free matching doll skirt! {$12.00 savings!} This would make a pretty […]
Thankful Thursday 3
The God of harvest praise, With loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, hearts, and voice, The valleys laugh and sing, Forests and mountains ring, The plains their tribute bring, The streams rejoice. This song comes to mind every time we are in the fields harvesting the grains and crop. It’s so beautiful and it captures the […]
Time to Cut the Milo
We started cutting milo the end of last week. Today my farmer man is racing against the weather. We were waiting for the moisture to go down in the grain, so we could cut. Now we’re hoping to get the most of it cut before the weather changes. We’re supposed to get rain tonight, with […]
Memoir Monday {No. 5}
A new week! Come link up your memories and everyday happenings below! Hello to this photo of my man and our baby niece who doesn’t live nearby! She’s grown so much since we saw her last! She’s such a dolly and so cuddly and roly-poly! Hello Legos! Hello to school and Playmobil and lots […]
Of Trees and Climbing and God {Five-Minute Friday}
We live in a land of wheat and sand and dirt roads and wind and cedar tree rows. Of cottonwood trees along the creek and hedge and chinese elm. The trees here are different than a lot of the trees in the east where I grew up. One thing is the same as I watch […]
Thankful Thursday 2
Take time to be holy, Speak oft with Thy Lord, Abide in Him always, And feed on His Word. Wait thou in His presence, Submissive and meek, Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek. William Dunn Longstaff Today I’m thankful for: the beauty in so many things around me the gleaming rays of sunshine […]
Down a Dirt Road
I grew up in the country. Unless you ask my husband. He says we didn’t live in the country. There were too many houses around. Not country, Kansas style, but for the east, it was country to us. I lived along a back road. A narrow, paved road. It was home. When I got married […]
Memoir Monday {No. 4}
I am always so puzzled at how how a week can seem long and short all at the same time! My parents and my middle niece from Ohio came to visit! Plus, we celebrated our baby niece’s first birthday. Speaking of weeks seeming long and short, years do that too!! Hello to a versatile piece…placemat […]
Apple Dumplings
We used to get together with an aunt and uncle and cousins almost every fall and make apple dumplings. My mother would peel apples and my aunt would make the pastry and wrap the apples. We cousins would hoot and holler and play, and wait to devour apple dumplings. It seems like memories can be […]
Truth Reigns! {Five Minute Friday}
John 14:15-17 “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will […]