Mini Pizzas

For many years, Friday night has been the night we make pizza. We have hardly tarried from this tradition for as long as I can remember. However, sometimes we just feel like having pizza twice for the week. I made these last week for lunch. Yummy! Very easy.. you shouldn’t need directions once you get […]

Inside the Smocked Sewing Case

Just a rough take of the inside of the sewing case. Still have some ends to tie up or sew up! This project will be in our spring issue. I’m playing with the camera; still trying to master the aperture and shutter! The embroidery is just french knots, chain stitches and straight stitches. Pretty. I

The Story

The article is much longer than this, so I thought I would post the part of her brother’s situation, for the full article go to the link in the previous post. “My brother, Phil Howard, was a missionary up in Northwest Territory in Canada. When he first went up there, he could not gain the

A Challenge

I used to love Elisabeth Elliot’s program Gateway to Joy. Today I ran across one of her shows that talks about something that we have been focusing on, forgiveness. Isn’t it hard? We can choose to forgive the person who hurt us, even though they won’t even think of doing the right thing themselves. I

What Color Do Our Children See?

A short story has come to mind.. I went to check on the children outside one day and caught little Zoe running out of our neighbor’s garage, out of breath, and excited. Before I said anything she said, “They borned a baby, and she is brown, her name is Zoe!” How sweet this girl, what

Whole Grain Oatmeal Cookies

Good morning to all! I thought I would post a recipe this morning. Our family loves nuts, especially pecans. Last week, a friend of mine sent me a whole box of pecans! The children began dutifully snacking and I made some cookies. Oatmeal Cookies In the Bosch mixer with the cookie paddles, place: 3 sticks softened

Forgiveness: Part II

Having some thoughts this morning.. Do you forgive easily? On the spot, take the apology, no questions asked, no rehashing of events, no accusing, wipe the slate clean, forgive? Do you know that Jesus wiped your slate clean? Anything other than doing the same for another will make you miserable. Not only that, one day

Smocking Preview | Favorite Spelt Bread

Here’s a smocking preview of a project for Seasons at Home Magazine, and our favorite Spelt bread recipe. Isn’t smocking pretty? I love hand sewing. It only took me a couple days to do the smocking, and that’s with a lot of children! This project will be in the spring issue of Seasons at Home

Can We Remedy Being Miserable Offenders?

Can We Remedy Being Miserable Offenders? If you haven’t read the works of Elisabeth Elliot, you are missing some great encouragement. I’m not one to have a load of ‘other’ books to read. I have a few wonderful, oldie but goodies in my nightstand. Here is an excerpt from All That Was Ever Ours. “We are

Antique Thoughts

I have a real want to go antique shopping. Don’t get me wrong, I hate clutter when it doesn’t have a purpose. How many of you like to go window shopping in an antique store? Some of the items aren’t really antique, but only replicas, and I really don’t know much about that. It’s interesting

Spicy Pecans

A friend of mine just mentioned to me the other day that her family was getting lots of pecans. My absolute favorite nut! Besides baking with them, we like to mix raw pecans with egg whites, spices and sugar before roasting them for an extra yummy snack. We published one of our recipes for them

New Year’s Snacks

A very belated and Merry Christmas to all of our readers! Due to some sickness that made it’s way around our whole family (and that’s a lot of sick people), we disappeared for a while to get some rest and get well. We did get well and had a lovely Christmas, and we hope you