It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would…
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Eight Simple Ways to Live Green
I don’t have a lot of money to invest in converting my current rental into a tried and true green-friendly home, but I honestly believe that conserving energy and being careful with our world doesn’t start with total home renovations. Going green doesn’t have to cost a lot of money or be time-consuming and difficult!…
Fox in Socks
One evening found me in the kitchen with two 20-something friends, passing a book from hand to hand, one we each read aloud with gusto. Three people meant three complete read-throughs, but not a single complaint. What was the book? Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. Who could resist a tongue-twister that has its own…
ruffles and book bags {a Gussy Sews giveaway!}
When I think of cute bags, I think of Gussy and her ruffles. And Gussy’s ruffles are the perfect thing to protect your Kindle library or house your entire findings from a trip to the library!
married to an evangelist
You know Meg, from Little Women? Well, take her and make her the writer in the family. That’s me. But I always wanted to be like Princess Amanda from Tales of the Kingdom…
Loving Those New Year’s Resolutions
I adore new year’s resolutions. Not because I’m some saint who always manages to fulfill them all, but because it’s like a chance to reset one’s rudder. We are always growing, changing, sowing — whether we’re aware of it or not — and the new year is a chance to choose what we’re going to…
a love of cross-culture travel
When I was eighteen, I went to India for two months… About eight months later, I moved to Thailand to assist an older missionary couple… Then, when I was twenty-two, I moved to New Zealand to live with some friends and help them with their four children five and under…
the one who says something random
In recent years, it’s been a few local “older women” who have reminded me that it’s okay not to do it all. It’s the ladies at my church who don’t know or care about my status online or even how clean my home is, but how happy my children are. It’s the online friends who have become real life friends that let me learn lessons along with them and speak courage into me when I don’t have it on my own.
