Still sick. Still on the couch ... and feeling incredibly unproductive. Hope to be back in the saddle very soon, but in the meantime, here's something I wrote several years back. This morning, a group from our church is leaving for Mexico. Once there, they’ll cuddle babies in an orphanage and paint the walls of a run-down school. They’ll practice their shaky Spanish with strangers on dusty streets and share the gospel through bits of sentences and songs and drama. And I won’t be with ... continue reading...
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Those Christmas Stockings
Guess what? Only 360 days till Christmas! Anybody out there ready? No? :) I've had some requests to share the pattern for the Christmas stockings I posted on Facebook. And I planned to do that -- to just tell you the name of the pattern and maybe post a picture or two. But it seems there's not one mention on my pattern, anywhere, of the name or copyright of the thing. And I've had it for 25 years. So ... with my apologies to the pattern creator, I'll have to show-and-tell you how to make ... continue reading...
Feed Me
A post from a few years back on my other blog,Wind Scraps. I'm missing our goats and wishing for snow (which we miiiiight get later this week), so this seemed an appropriate post for today. The ruckusy call of seven goats tugs at my ears and walks my feet toward my brown garden clogs. I slip them on and step outside, and though I've seen this same view for a week, I still draw in my breath at the beauty of our white-coated lawn. The snow in town melted days ago, but our farm is insulated by ... continue reading...
How to hold a simple advent … and why you want to
Last week I shared part of this story with the women who had gathered for our church's annual Christmas Tea. And this morning, when I spied the jar on our table -- a constant, silent reminder of the truth I learned many years back -- I thought I might share it with you too. Here's an article I wrote for HomeLife magazine about ten years ago. I distinctly remember how overwhelmed I felt the first time someone suggested an Advent celebration to me. Four nights. I’d have to set aside four ... continue reading...
Spaghetti Sauce
I'm off to meet two friends for coffee, knitting, catching-up, laughing, and lunch. But before I head out, I'm starting a pot of spaghetti sauce in the crock pot, full of big, tender meatballs from the batch I made last week. Here's a post I wrote a few summers ago on my other blog, Wind Scraps, that explains why I love to cook so much: When I grab my one and only Longaberger basket--the one with the frilly blue liner I made myself because I was too frugal to buy theirs, overlaid with the ... continue reading...
Because They Love It So … Tater Tot Casserole
After twenty-five years of marriage, I finally broke down a few months ago and made my first tater tot casserole. I don't know what possessed me to do so, but I did it, and now there's no turning back ... because they absolutely loved it. Their eyes -- when they could pull them from the sloppy concoction in from of them -- looked on me with adoration and gratitude. Who knew? I had always disdained this particular casserole. Tater tots? I'd think. Really? Can't you think of anything more ... continue reading...