Gifts for kids {$20 and under}
This year, I went digging in my own Amazon history for suggestions to share with you of great gifts for kids, for twenty dollars or less.
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Savory burgers
Here’s a recipe I’ve been working on recently, a seasoned and savory burger. Our family loves it.
Letters from Grandpa
My father was recently given a set of letters written by his father (now gone these fifty years and more) to a friend in the early 1940’s.
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Canadian jaunt
If you ever find yourself in the regions of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, you might consider a few places of interest along the way.
Farm cake
I had the joy of decorating a birthday cake for a tractor-loving nephew. Usually, cake decorating is a mix of therapy and stress. This time was pure joy.
What (our) marriage is really like
How dare he? This is not the first time he will shave his whiskers for the state, and it will probably not be the last, God forbid.
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Rejuvenate PA 2019
With friends and needy and grieving and isolated and savoring, I went creative: the paintbrush and the hammer and the string making patterns I could follow.
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Controversial controversy
I feel responsible for the discussion that happens here. I am the moderator, and this is my space. However, I am caught in something of a dilemma.
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Very long hair care 101
Being an Anabaptist woman, while fulfilling, presents certain challenges: such as where to buy good fabric and what to do with your long hair.
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To a young mom
Don’t give up too quickly: on your children, on yourself, or on those “other moms” who don’t get it, or don’t talk about it.