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  • Works for Me: Bar Keepers Friend

    As I was busily scrubbing my sink one day this week, I thought, “I have to blog about this.” It was one of those moments that makes me feel a bit crazy — but I’d be willing to be most bloggers have had moments like that, realizing that something really mundane might actually make a…

  • Adoption Story by Sandy

    (Thank you to Sandy for today’s guest post!) “Religion that our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this; to look after widows and orphans in their distress.” James 1:27 It is hard for me to pinpoint just exactly the date when I first felt the call to adopt, but I remember driving and praying,…

  • Homemade Aprons

    A few years ago, Kathryn started wishing for her very own apron. I don’t know where she got the notion; probably from something she was reading. Anyway, for her birthday last year, I made her a little homemade apron, and she was delighted with it. She wears it on every possible occasion–and she’s more enthusiastic…

  • Twenty-five more of my thousand gifts

    I’m still thanking the Lord for more of my one-thousand gifts! Gifts #151 – #175: My friend Tina and her baby (still in the womb) are both safe after a scare last week. The new old car passed emissions! Cheap cars mean cheap ad valorem fees for tags. Sister-time for Lindsey and Kathryn. Vanilla cupcakes…

  • The Cook’s Book: My Recipe Binder

    The Cook’s Book: My Recipe Binder

    Not too long ago, I realized I had a shelf full of cookbooks, but I almost never cracked one open. What do I do with all those unused cookbooks? I decided that a nifty recipe binder would be much more useful; it would feed my need for organization, and would be one necessary step towards…

  • Adoption Story by Barrett {Guest Post}

    (Thank you to Barrett for today’s guest post!) My wife Jenifer and I have been married for almost twenty years and we have four amazing biological children, aged 17 to 10. What follows is our story of how God stretched our faith and enriched our lives through his gift of our fifth child, Madeline Kate….