Iced Coffee In A Mason Jar

In the summertime, I love iced coffee every day. Sometimes I pour myself a hot cup of coffee and I cannot even finish it before I am starting to sweat, so I just go on and ice it first thing in the morning. Those are the kind of days we’re having in Arkansas right now.  …

Call Me, Maybe

While Taido was out of town last week, Mary Polly had a couple of girls spend the night.  Usually our house is full of boys, so it’s always interesting when the hormone scale gets tipped the other way.  The dynamics in the house shift. Nail polish fumes overpower the smell of sweaty socks.  One Direction …

book and seashells

The Great Wide Sea

Every year I give the kids a new book on the first day of summer. I picked The Great Wide Sea by M. H. Herlong out for Ben because in addition to the appealing cover and exciting storyline, the main character’s name is Ben. He read it the first day of summer, handed it to …

The Fiddler’s Gun by Pete Peterson

I bought The Fiddler’s Gun for my boys a while back because it’s an adventure story set during the American revolution.  And because there are some pirates. So when I was packing for our trip, I grabbed it for them to read but then I ended up starting it.  Completely taken in, I stayed up …

award winning blackberry peach cobbler

Blackberry Peach Cobbler

This is the Award Winning Blackberry Peach Cobbler Recipe that was featured on Daybreak on KATV and that won me a year’s supply of Yarnell’s Ice Cream! This recipe is quite possibly the easiest cobbler you can make since it uses a streusel topping instead of a crust. Easy Blackberry Peach Cobbler with Walnut Streusel …

grateful today

My grandmother and Simon are both Junebugs.  They turned 6 and 89 last week, so they shared a birthday cake at Sunday lunch at my parents. We partied all day on Sunday because we were also saying Goodbye to our exchange student, Vitara, who began her long journey back to Indonesia yesterday. My grandmother played …

mushroom asparagus quiche

I made this quiche for an event this month and we all loved it.  I had several requests for the recipe so I thought I would quickly share it!   Mushroom Asparagus Quiche Ingredients: 1 prepared pie crust 1 half to 1 pound fresh asparagus, cut into half inch pieces (depending on how much asparagus …

Sucre Pie

Sucre Pie from the book about Hutterites. I read this book about Hutterites last year and at the back of the book was this wonderfully simple recipe for a sugar pie.  It almost seemed too easy to be good. But the sweet gal who runs Boxed Lunch Book Club at church always brings a dessert …

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A Beauty To Unveil

A Beauty To Unveil A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.  She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that He finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy and in Him, she is enough. She exudes a sense …

fruit smoothie, healthy breakfast

Fruit Smoothie

We LOVE fruit smoothies at our house.  I’ve been making them since before I even had a blender.  I would use my food processor to make what sometimes tasted like fruit sorbets for an after pool snack. In the winter months, we eat a lot of oatmeal in the morning, but in the summertime, I …

Once Upon A Farm

photo by jerusalem greer @ jolly goode gal In the world of modern day technology, I find that it is a rare treat to be engaged by someone who holds my attention with nothing but an exceptional ability to wield the English language. Last week I had the remarkable privilege of meeting not just one, …

Soy Succotash

We had the most delectable lunch at Moss Mountain Farm this week.  In keeping with our soy-themed day for Bean 2 Blog, the topping for the potato was made with tofu and the succotash served with the pork tenderloin was filled with edamame. I enjoyed the whole meal very much, but my favorite part was, …