A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
My brother-in-law gets the credit for matching us up, but I know the story began long before he said to Kris, “You should meet Becky’s sister.” A long, long, time ago there were a couple of mothers who prayed for their children to find godly spouses. On two very different peninsula states, one in Michigan…
I grew up in a small town in Michigan. Small town as in, one blinker light, a public school with all the kids from Kindergarten through 12th grade in the same building, and a little downtown where folks gathered at the little restaurant my parents owned and ran, for coffee and homemade cinnamon rolls. My…
I have never been a big fan of squash, but I found this recipe a year or two ago and I absolutely love it. It’s filling, yummy, and good for me.
This week’s topic was Healthy Eating. We can go at this in a lot of different ways, but one thing I wanted to focus on was our motivation and discipline. I think it’s easy to simply and generally want to eat healthy, but what is it that will actually drive us to it. We have…
The most requested information from our first week together was for some pointers on meal planning. I’m not an expert on this, but I have learned a lot over the last few years and below is everything I could think of that might make things run more smoothly for other meal makers.
This is the handout I gave our participants Thursday night…I am simply copying and pasting here and you can do the same. Copy this into a Word doc. and print as needed.
This first week we discussed the threats facing our kids in our current society. We made quesadillas and I handed out these 10 “health threats” on little strips of paper to discuss as we eat, just as a family could around a dinner table. The discussion notes in the following outline were in my notes,…
“Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.” Psalm 84:3 We have been looking at houses. The search has taken us to the heights of excitement and to the lows of disappointment.
Winter in Tennessee is not our best time for offering beauty. The grasses are mostly brown, the trees are bare and the sky is more often gray than blue. Thankfully, seasons change, they don’t last, and though I wish fall lasted longer, and that spring would come earlier, and that summer weren’t so hot, and…