I remember long hot summer days – days that had plenty of time for pretend cooking under the back porch, which was one of my favorite shady, thus cooler, summer spots. I also enjoyed going into our grove behind the barn. There was one of my favorite things, an old horse driven plow. I would…
Years ago I read this little article about Bodie Thoene:
Quiet Time
"I interviewed Bodie Thoene years and years ago, before she was well—known in Christian publishing (although she was already a successful author—I just didn’t know).
Listening to all she managed to pack into her life, I asked, “How do you make space for devotions?”
She just…
As I began reading an e-mail, this line caught my eye and tugged at my heart. We have been discussing this very thing in our home off and on for several months. We’ve slid into making choices of good things, which has kept us from choosing the best things.
It’s easy to understand wanting to kick…
Greetings from Rochester, MN – home of the Mayo Clinic. My husband has been taking classes here the first week of May every year since 1995. That makes this our 15th year of spending a week here.
That first year our children were four, six, and eight – now they are 19, 21, and 23 –…
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I’m excited about today’s post because I’m interviewing Molly Green of Econobusters.com. I’ve done a couple of things…
The other morning during my quiet time I found myself watching for my coffee-drinking daughter to appear so we could exchange greetings and smiles.
I hadn’t realized how much I look forward to that first glimpse of her each morning.
From there my thoughts moved to reminiscing about where my children find me each morning.
I’ve always had…
It is snowing here in cold Minnesota and when the roads get nasty I stay home, so to keep myself from getting cabin fever I thought I would gather up a few of my current favorite freebies and pass them along to you. My husband says, “No one likes a bargain like my wife!” and…