Monthly Archives: November 2009

can’t wait to be with these folks!

  November 24, 2009 - 5:18 pm | , ,
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Hopefully, in less than 24 hours my family and I will be joining the party that is already in full swing at my sister’s house.  I will get to spend a few days all piled in among people for whom I am deeply grateful.  My grandmother will not be there, mainly because I can’t talk her into getting into our van with us.  You know, it kinda has a bad reputation. Anna has already planned and probably prepared most of the food, so I get the year off from cooking Thanksgiving dinner.  However, if I were bringing a dish to … Continue reading →

today’s mama giveaway

  November 22, 2009 - 4:22 pm | ,
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Ok it has come to this. I need these kind of questions to get me going on my blog these days, and it just so happens that by answering them I am also entering a giveaway over at Today’s Mama for this pile of goodies, so here we go.  Join in if you want! 1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year? 1. lisa leonard‘s be still necklace 2. barbara kingsolver’s new book. 3. something with an owl on it…maybe this?? or this: 4. a car, this is not really for christmas…it’s just that our current … Continue reading →

living a story

  November 20, 2009 - 12:01 am |
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I finished Donald Miller’s new book shortly after receiving it in the mail this week and what hooked me into reading it so quickly was probably the introduction: If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers.  You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen.  The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except … Continue reading →

cluttering the coffee table

  November 9, 2009 - 11:27 pm | , , ,
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I’m having loads of trouble finishing books this fall with all the new activity, but now that sports are over and the nights are longer, I can feel the evenings of reading opening up to us.  Here are a few of our current loves. The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Prisoner’s Dilemma by Little Rock’s own Trenton Lee Stewart.  This is the third and final book in the series.  We are currently reading it aloud and have so far loved the puzzles and riddles within the story, often stopping so everyone can have a guess.  The characters are all lovable … Continue reading →

faith in action with a little apple cake on the side

  November 5, 2009 - 11:29 pm | , , ,
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So a few Sundays ago, I had the amazing privilege of cooking with a delightful group of gals as part of our church’s Faith in Action project.  It was a huge blessing to get to serve by doing something that I enjoy so much.  We put together two dinners for single moms to have in their freezers. Chicken Pot Pie and Chili, plus some cookie dough to have chocolate chip cookies hot from the oven in a flash. We chopped most of the vegetables for the chicken pot pies, including many bags of onions, which brought everyone to tears.  The … Continue reading →