Some days, it seems like we're just scraping by; our talents and our time are stretched too thin. We're barely making it when Christ has promised us abundant life. I don't know about you, but I definitely want to be doing More Than Just Making It.... Yesterday, I found myself rushing to the ER with my son who needed stitches. A lot of them. As I sat and ...
HOORAY for Books!
Reading Opens Worlds
You may not know it now when reading often feels like work, but reading a book can transport you to another world, immerse you in another culture and broaden your horizons. It's like traveling in an armchair. From the first words of some books, I am gone 'til some tiny hand pulls me back. "It is a truth universally acknowledged…" "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence ...
Review: Mom Made Us Write This in the Summer
I received this book just before Christmas and had hoped to have a review for you long before now. Better late than never, I hope. When the book arrived, it disappeared…which is a good sign because I found my daughter reading it nonstop over the next few days. She loved it from the first page. Mom Made Us Write This in the Summer is the summer journal of twins Maggie and Max ...
Make-It-Yourself Monday: Chicken Enchilada Suizas (Cookbook Review)
I am all about easy dinner because, let's face it, the hours of 4 to 6 p.m. are usually the hardest of the day. Truly, if I haven't planned ahead, my husband usually comes in to find me with a blank face, frozen as solid by panic as the meat I just pulled out of the deep freeze. Meanwhile, my children run around howling very much like the Lost Boys prancing around the fire in Peter Pan. It's ...