Archive for March, 2008

Loose Ends

Women are designed by God to be flexible, but that doesn’t mean it is always easy. Sometimes we have a little stiffness, a little resistance to change. It’s hard to give way when we are accustomed to things as they are. We can feel a little insecure about who we are or what we’re supposed […]

This is not a joke

I know, it does seem a little MacGyvor of me to recommend that you bake bread using your food processor. I am not kidding though, it is the best bread you will ever make at home.

Library Day

Howdy – do! I haven’t posted anything in absolute ages – and most of my excuses had to do with being busy and crazy and heaps of laundry and everything else . . . but today those excuses don’t apply. As a matter of fact, I’m actually in danger of starting to get a touch […]

With all the encouragement we have been getting to celebrate Easter in a big way - to buy new clothes and dress up, make gorgeous meals, and fun activities for the kids, it occurs to me that something has been left out.
We are now officially into Easter weekend, and the time to shop for new […]

Sugar cookie-o-rama

My life has been peppered with bad sugar cookie experiences. I love a good sugar cookie, but they seem like a holiday kind of cookie, so it took me many years of unsatisfactory holiday baking to come across my favorite sugar cookie. Usually it seems that they either break easily, puff too much to decorate […]

Just when we thought we were hitting our stride, my daughter came across a blog post demonstrating that there are Easter parties out there that are way ahead of ours. One family has an wind-up Easter toy race every year, and it sounds like Mom saves the toys from year to year, so she has […]