Who doesn’t love a good Christmas cookie? There’s a family recipe that Grandma used to make every year. All throughout the year actually, but especially at Christmas time. We’d all receive tins of prepared Christmas cookies. Getting the tin of cookies in the mail was always a highlight of Christmas. Grandma loved to bake—she said […]
I love fruitcake. You either love it or hate it. I love it. My family hates it. The whole family. There is not one person in my family who likes fruitcake. This year I made myself a homemade fruitcake. I found all the ingrediencies online and eagerly waited for the “fruit” in the fruitcake ingrediencies […]
Here’s some holiday news from our friends at HomeWord… Time to Go! Holiday Guests Officially Overstay Their Welcome After 4 Days, Survey Says By Jim Liebelt The following is excerpted from an online article posted by StudyFinds. A survey of 2,000 Americans (split evenly by generation) finds that 49 percent of people think spending four […]
The Christmas season is magical. Who doesn’t like a good Hallmark movie? It can take us to Magic Land where everything turns out peachy and keen. Always a happy ending. People always work out their differences. Everyone is happy in the end. I think that’s why I like those feel-good movies so much. I like […]
I brought back this post from years ago because my father-in-law graduated to heaven this past year. In remembrance of him this week–Thanksgiving week–I wanted to share this again. Wally Williams was 99 when he passed on and we were so blessed to be with him during his last days. Sometimes you just have to […]
Today’s post is an article by Dr. Jim Burns. I thought it was so impactful and my favorite line in this is “Don’t forget that the difference between kids who make it and kids who don’t is often just one caring adult.” The Blessing (for Parents and Grandparents) by Dr. Jim Burns For years, whenever […]
In the early years of our marriage my husband and I would do things to try and connect to each other. Sometimes these attempts at reaching toward one another would result in fights. One of us would try to connect and we would connect but it would go sideways and turn into fighting connecting. Not […]
I took a recent trip to Texas to visit my son and his family. On one of the days, I got the privilege of picking up the kids from their schools and also bringing lunch to my six-year-old grandson. Grandma went to Chick-fil-A and got lunch and brought it to the school lunchroom—where we had […]
The pain was unbearable. Maybe even the worst pain I had ever felt. Years ago, I had to have major surgery. When I awoke in the recovery room, I was hit with pain I had never experienced before and it was excruciating. Barely able to speak I reached out to the nurse in the room […]
“Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.” –Proverbs 31:30 (NASB) Here are a few thoughts on beauty and growing old… What is beauty anyway? The world may have us believe a woman is beautiful when she is stacked, racked, ripped, nipped, snipped, plucked, tucked, […]
