Beautiful Calling

          I was offered the chance to review The Unfinished Gift and The Christmas Dog by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group. I jumped at the opportunity. I haven’t read much fiction at all this year and love to read. The Christmas Dog by Melody Carlson I started with this book. The adorable pup [...]

  Last week we talked about How to Break Down a Chicken. After breaking it down, we froze the thighs, wings and breasts but the chicken backs and wingtips we roasted right away. A little salt and pepper and onto a baking sheet for 400 deg F for approx 2 hours, then let them cool [...]

In Fall of 2008, I began watching Jaiden, a little girl from church, a couple days a week. Chloe and Jaiden are only 2 months apart. When Jaiden first started coming, her and Chloe weren’t even two yet. They were hardly able to talk. Where has the time gone? Our babies have grown up and [...]

There is a place called the Land of Nod and let me tell you, when the FedEx man arrived with a box from them, I was excited! We received the Wooden Slice and Bake Cookie Set by Melissa and Doug and it looks fantastic. Since everyone knows that Chloe and I love to bake, I [...]

   We have been trying to utilize as much of anything we buy as possible. I once heard someone say, in reference to kitchen scraps, that anything you throw away was something you paid for. Our first step in making use of everything was making our own stock with bones from our meat. We’ve since [...]

I know it seems like H1N1 is all anyone every talks about anymore and here is yet another post about it! I mentioned some prevention tips in October when I was feeling a little under the weather. I had a little bit of the sniffles but nothing ever came of it, praise the Lord! I [...]

Photo by Behrooz I can get back up, with assurance that: Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

View Full Album Apple Crumble Tarts and A Fabulous New Apron! I discovered my love of aprons earlier this year but Flirty Aprons takes it to the next level! They were gracious enough to not only send an apron for me but a matching one for Chloe as well. I don’t know if she or [...]

A Google search of ‘Tune Up’ revealed the following definition: An Adjustment for Better Functioning A search of ‘Adjustment’ revealed the following: A Small Change, A Minor Correction, A Modification What is Tune-Up Tuesday? Find out more HERE! ———————————————————————————————- I mentioned last week that I was working on my top three things. Well this week [...]

I completely want to win this giveaway over at My Wee View! It is for an Ergo Carrier!! How perfect would that be for carrying my cutie John-John on our big trip this spring and all the days in between. But don’t enter because I want it