Written by Rhonda Gowler Greene, this sweet little book for young children, Baa! Oink! Moo! God made the Animals, lets them go to the farm and meet each of the animals living there. The little boy in the story asks his mama each time he meets a new friend if God made this animal too. The sing-song-y…
My Summer 2017 Reading List
I made a lot of plans for the blog and the 2017 reading challenge last fall. Turns out, I spent winter and through the summer growing a new addition to our family instead. Hyperemesis gravidarum might sound like just a fancy way to say “morning sickness”, but if you’ve experienced it you will know it…
Befriend
What’s the difference from friending and befriending? Like many in this generation, I’ve struggled with the way that the facebook age has changed the way our culture views relationships and interacts. With hundreds of facebook friends and instant communication with almost anyone, why are we all so alone? This year, I set out on a…
Surviving Unemployment by Making Frugal Choices
Extended unemployment is one of the more challenging things that life can throw at anyone. Six months after we married, Scott and I found ourselves facing just that. The aircraft company we worked for in Northern Idaho was hit hard by the tanking economy. Along with dozens of other employees, suddenly we both were unemployed. Neither…
Reading Challenge 2017
Growing up, I was a voracious reader. I read and reread dozens of books a month, and would devour books in a single sitting. Those were the golden years for reading! My life is so different now than it was in those preteen years when there were plenty of carefree hours perfect for curling up…
A Farewell to 2016
I always have these grand plans to write a real End Of Year post with all sorts of newsy bits, observations and deep thoughts for the next year. But then I sit down at my computer and suddenly all the words go away. So instead of observations and lots of words, I’m leaving 2016 with…
Making Christmas Bright {what I’m loving this season}
I can’t believe that Christmas is this coming weekend. I’m unbelievably behind in getting this post set up, but I am excited to share with you a few of the things that are making this holiday season “bright”. Some of these are simple, some are a part of long-standing, tradition, and some of them are new…
My Favorite Resources for Cultivating Gratitude
Sometimes it’s easy to pull out gratitude like a holiday dress and wear it just for November. And even though we talk a lot about gratitude, it can be easy to let daily praise and thanksgiving slip during those frazzled days and weeks of real life. I know for me, it is anyway. But every year,…
Baby Steps to Keep Moving Forward as an Entrepreneur
I’ve always been a dream-chaser. But one of my biggest dreams has always been being self-employed. I was five years old when I first decided that I didn’t want to do any of the things my friends talked about doing when they grew up. I didn’t want to be a doctor like my cousin. (For…
Itsy Bitsy Christmas and Other Christmas Books for Young Children
I don’t collect many things, but I am unashamed of my love for collecting Christmas stories. I love Christmas time. The twinkle of lights and the triumphant words of Christmas hymns are a fitting light in the middle of the darkest time of the year. And Christmas stories are often filled with stories of trust,…
