From the category archives:

Memo Monday

Cookin’ from the Pantry

by Guest Contributor on March 8, 2010

After the whirlwind of Friday and Saturday, I completely forgot that I signed up to bring breakfast for our small group at church. When I was reminded that evening, the last thing I wanted to do was go to the store. So I made this with things we had on hand.

Blueberries and Cream [...]

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Culture Wars: Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?

by Guest Contributor on December 14, 2009

It’s that time of year again. The inboxes are filling up with emails and You Tubes decrying the lack of Christmas spirit. Turns out there are people and stores who don’t say, “Merry Christmas.” They say, “Happy Holidays!” or something similar.
Here are my thoughts on the issue.
It doesn’t bother me.
I don’t expect people who are [...]

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A Christmas Carol, Special Edition Giveaway

by Lori on December 7, 2009

It’s one of the ALL TIME classics, and many of us will likely see Jim Carrey’s interpretation of Ebenezer Scrooge this holiday season, but there is a little gem of a book that has recently been released and in the spirit of the season, I’m even going to give one away!
The books arrived on my [...]

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Life of Fred

by Tracy on November 16, 2009

I can no longer keep quiet! I MUST CONFESS! I LOVE FRED!
No, my husband’s name is not Fred. Fred is the name of a Five year old boy. The Five year old Math Professor, from “Kittens University”.
He teaches my kids math.
I am not joking he REALLY does! We have used Math-U-See since Kindergarten, with a [...]

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A Paper Harvest

by Lori on November 2, 2009

The other day I was at Archiver’s.
Be warned.
This place is dangerous if you happen to have a paper addiction as I do. I do hope that the Good Lord will have paper waiting for me at the Pearly Gates…an eternity to play with paper.  I can only imagine…
anyway,
While we were wandering around, we spotted these [...]

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Books Revisited

by Tracy on October 12, 2009

I had read this book The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman before. About 10 years or more ago. It greatly impacted my life at the time and I have recommended it to people and talked about it for years, whenever discussion of it was appropriate. Over the years I loaned out my copy [...]

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