Thank you so much for your responses! I am in email dialogue with a few of you. Computing… Computing… Compiling… Soon, some more thoughts on blogging. For tonight, Jesus is telling me to publish this, for one of you. ***** What does complete surrender look like? I always thought it meant an open book. An […]
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Today I made my first butter ever. I am absurdly proud of this little pat. I blended and rinsed and squeezed and rinsed. Well well. And it tastes not so bad as I thought, after the smell of the ripened cream prepared me for the worst. But it’s doughy white. Like Ma in Little House
Confession: The weather is 13 degrees Fahrenheit in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and according to weather.com it feels like 1°. But it’s March 5, and today I saw the robins. Here’s a sweet idea for welcoming spring. Your favorite cupcake recipe + green-tinted frosting + sugared marshmallow Peeps = kiddo happiness, big time. Pretty self-explanatory, really. If
I apologize for the delay. I have learned my lesson and from now on will substitute “more next time” in place of “more tomorrow.” Where was I? Ah yes. What if instead of arranging our goals around our weight, we arranged them around our habits? ***** There are several facts of the matter that I
What do you think a godly woman should look like? Should she be a model of self-denial, at the perfect weight? Or comfortable with wearing the shape that time and life impose on her? ***** Perhaps both. Remember that scales are a recent phenomenon, and until the last century were not put into use as
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A question for you: What is it with women and food? I’ve been having fun conversations lately with people like me who love chocolate, and who in snowy weather want to sit around eating all the time. Oh me. What do you think a godly woman should look like? Should she be a model of
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Confession: I didn’t feed my kids that chocolate cake. I fully intended to, I really did. But… I found I was perfectly able to eat it all by myself. And now I’m eating something even better. Look. A strawberry field is strangely like the sea. Your voice carries too far. The horizon is flat, and
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So I have an idea and the idea that I have is this. Let’s each say what we cook All The Time… the booooring stuff. And if we want, let’s say what we do when we want to make it special. Because to somebody reading this blog, it won’t be boring, it’ll be delightfully fresh:
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Today I did not feed my kids enough, I guess. They asked for food every fifteen minutes. Mommy, can I have a snack? as I was washing up the lunch dishes… Hmm. Thought you would be makin supper by now… at 3:30 in the afternoon. Mom, I’m gonna DIE… at 5:00, after plenty of snacks.
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The other day, looking for some Valentine treats, I stumbled across the prettiest website! I have been there on occasion before, but never explored much. Glorious Treats is one of the loveliest food blogs I have found: beautiful, accessible, and tasteful. Her pictures are breathtaking. Her ideas are creative. Her treats are fashionably seasonal, yet usually