"Lala salama." It's one of the Kiswhahili phrases I love and not just because it rolls off the tongue so easily. Sleep peacefully. Who doesn't want to do that? I know I do, and nothing short of a sick kid wakes me up more quickly than having the fitted sheet on my bed come off during the night. It drives me crazy, and because our bed sheets were getting on in ...
House & Home
Holy Hospitality: Opening Your Home & Heart to Others
Do you struggle to practice hospitality? I know I do sometimes. 1 Peter 4:9 tells us to "offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." But how can we do it? Read on to find out! "Wakati wa chai (Time for tea)," I would say as I walked through the door of our organization's regional office. Holding roasted maize or pastries and looking forward to ...
Easy Peppermint Mocha & How to Set Up the *PERFECT* Holiday Hot Beverage Station
Be ready for guests with the Perfect Holiday Hot Beverage Station and whip up a quick and easy Peppermint Mocha anytime! I love having friends over for coffee and what my son calls "chitty chat chat." I love to linger over a warm beverage and ponder life with some of my besties. (My preteen would DIE...or at least roll her eyes...if she read that I called ...
Sneezin’ Season
So, I received an email that informed me a recent study says that Jackson, MS tops the list of cities with the worst allergies, and I thought: I didn't need a study to tell me that. Seriously….We don't have an allergy season here, do we? It's ALWAYS allergy season here. In fact, I find that when someone I know is complaining about having allergies or sinus infections, I ...