Hello, my friends, and happy 2021! It is hard to believe that January is well on its way to being over. I have been doing the usual January things these past few weeks. I have been unduly excited about the fresh start or blank slate that is a new calendar year. I have been thinking … Continue reading Cooking Together!
Category: the gifts
Homemade Gifts: A New Plan
Hi friends. I know it has been a while, but we had this whole pandemic-election-home school-impending doom thing going on for the last several months (years?), and I am not afraid to say my bandwidth was, well, gone. Maybe it is the proximity of the new year, or a glimmer of human optimism, but I … Continue reading Homemade Gifts: A New Plan
A Purposeful Quiet
Oh wow. The world has been heavy as of late. We are all collectively and individually wrestling with fear and isolation, sacrificing for the greater good, national identity, deep pain, and racial reckoning. Even squares of cloth or simple declarative statements about the value of life have gotten heavy as they become imbued with more … Continue reading A Purposeful Quiet
The World Today
Our daughter welcomed first my husband and I home from a trip, and then our son home from a trip in February with our names below the "welcome home," but recently I noticed she made the sign a bit more simple. I kept thinking we needed to change it until I looked again at it … Continue reading The World Today
A Christmas Eve Resolution
Eggnog Streusel BreadGood for the entire holiday season, not just up until the 25th! It is Christmas Eve morning, and I am lucky enough to be sitting beneath a cozy blanket, looking up at a sparkling tree. I can see out my windows on to the cold roofs of the houses nearby and the tops … Continue reading A Christmas Eve Resolution
On (Big Fat) Purpose
We have a saying in our house. Whenever something is done really intentionally, we say it is on big fat purpose. I think it started one time when my daughter was accusing her brother of doing something awful to her and in order to stress the proper amount of outrage, she referred to him committing … Continue reading On (Big Fat) Purpose
Micro Ministry
I have been giving away bread for about 1.5 years now, and I still get a thrill and sometimes some good old fashioned nerves when I walk up to a door. My 14-year-old son has transitioned into open mortification that his mom could walk up to someone's door she doesn't know to hand them bread … Continue reading Micro Ministry
What’s Next
When I first conceived this once a week bread giveaway, it was less a conception and more of an intervention. It was planted, wholly formed, into my brain. God's hands were all over it. He put it in my head and that was that. This was what I was supposed to do. It was specific, … Continue reading What’s Next
The Dog Days of Summer
Fresh off my realization from my last post that I really love a tangible work product and a real-life reflection of my work, I discovered that my dog really, really likes that too. It was all prepared, the giveaway for the week--a lovely cinnamon swirl bread. It was wrapped with a fresh kitchen towel, twine, … Continue reading The Dog Days of Summer
A Summer Plan!
Summer is off to a bang at our house. And by that, I definitely mean the summer adjusted schedule of doing less, taking more time, and all the summer cliches. Dinner after 7? No problem. No homework. No early morning scrambles getting kids to school. A movie at 8:30 on a Tuesday? Yep. At the … Continue reading A Summer Plan!