Pages: Look at the darling book I have to share today! It’s a heartwarming story with charming pictures. Reagandoodle & Little Buddy. The true story of a Labradoodle and His Toddler Best Friend. Here’s what the back cover says: An uplifting tail tale of friendship, foster care, adoption, and hope. The moment Reagandoodle first set […]
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Braided Yeast Roll Wreaths
We had snow over the weekend and it made everything so pretty and made an instant Christmas-ey feel! There were icicles hanging along the edges of the porch and they were beautiful in the morning sunlight. They fascinate me with their glassy shimmer and splendid shine. It started warming up and they began to […]
Hooray For A Photo Canvas Giveaway
Making me happy right now…………this shelf of color and artwork and a photo canvas and memories and favorites! You know I love books and pictures and bright, happy colors and creativity and this shelf is holding it all at the moment! Yay! 🙂 The stack of books are Thornton W. Burgess’ books weaving tales about […]
Make the Memories Because We Can
In the rhythms and routines of life, The day-to-day, The simple tasks. The have-tos and must-be-dones. Along the edges and cracks. We find ourselves creating. Creating though we do not see it forming at the time. We mold memories. Traditions arise and unfold in the threads and edges. Unplanned, really. One day we tell. We […]
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 a GraceLaced Print Giveaway
July. July always summons up memories and pictures of hot sunshine, water spraying, and long days. It carries me back to childhood and carefree days and summertime living. Stirring up lemonade or Kool-Aid in the burnt orange Tupperware pitcher and wedging the lid on top. Eating popsicles, orange or red, purple or green….licking them […]
Pages and Projects {The 4 Wills of God, Great & Small Bible, The Life-Giving Parent}
Whew! I’m taking a deep breath as I sit down and type this. The last couple of weeks and last month have been fun and busy and a flurry of prep and busy and plans and busy and baking and busy and looking forward to and busy and gathering and busy and outside work and […]
Pages and Projects {Simple Organizing and Tell Me About Easter}
My knitting needles have gone missing…………not really…………..they just haven’t been picked up by me in a number of days! My projects in January and February have been an interesting mixture of carpets torn out upstairs, on-going sorting and organizing, books, pictures, and a couple of parties thrown in! I have two lovely books to […]
Pages and Projects {The Star DVD and If You Only Knew}
Favorite quote for the week……….. “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~ Robert McCloskey This quote nails how I too often feel! Ha! Communication and relationships and how we each perceive and hear and […]
Ten Favorites in February
Here are ten of my favorite things I’ve either been WEARING… USING….DOING….READING…. or CRUSHING ON in February…… 1. This shirt from Union 28 Marriage Apparel ~ He Captured My Heart. I won it in a giveaway over at Jenifer Metzger’s blog. Yay!!! So excited! 2. This blush letterboard from Letterfolk. I could own two or […]
A Grocery Cart Gone Missing, A Bit of Bewilderment and a Good Dose of Inspiration
The sky hangs low this morning and if you could squint close enough I’m quite sure you would see the word WINTER etched across it in wispy, weathered handlettering. As it is, I read my thermometer instead and it says seventeen degrees. I give a shiver and I pull out my long, navy coat and […]
Ten “Coffee Date with a Friend” Ideas
A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and can sing it back when you’ve forgotten the words. ~ unknown My sister and I, we text back and forth soon after I return from spending time with my family at Christmas. We find ourselves challenging each other to aim for a once-month-coffee-date […]
Pages and Projects {Spurgeon Journal, A Family Shaped By Grace and a Pom-pom Wreath}
I’m listening to the windchime on my front porch as I type this. There’s a bit of a brisk breeze today and it’s swinging my windchime in a merry dance. It’s really pretty outside my windows. Sunshine and warmer temps, but when I stepped outdoors earlier, I thought the moving air had a winter chill […]
Pages and Projects {Christ Chronological}
This is my latest book to review from B&H/Lifeway. Christ Chronological. This book takes the four Gospels and combines all of them in a parallel format as it shares the accounts of Christ’s life. Each Gospel is assigned a different color of print to tell you which book it’s from if you care to take […]
Wherein I Will Once Again Be Grateful For Dirty Dishes and Laundry {After I Complain}
Last night, all I could see were dirty dishes and laundry that needed folded. I was tired and irritable and it looked like too much. I can not take one more dirty dish or laundry that never ends. I have a mini meltdown and exclaim to my husband that I am so tired of dirty […]
My Ten Favorite Reads From 2017
Books and reading! Reading and books! I love words and inspiration and beautiful book covers! Here are ten of my personal top picks of the books I opened the covers on in 2017. You’ll find my Library List for 2017 of books I read on this Pinterest Board right here. Most of them on the […]