If you happen to know a couple getting married this year, tell ‘em about the wedding shoot giveaway being offered by Israel Shirk of Avalanche Photography. (Click on over there and see his work!)  The winning couple gets a free wedding shoot, and the folks who refer the winning couple get a free family...
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If you happen to have leftover ham, here’s a hearty and delicious use for it.  I loved the looks of  a recipe I saw on Tasty Kitchen today, but decided it was a little too fussy for the numbers of people that I serve. So I added eggs and adapted it to be made...
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We were always getting ahead of ourselves. Engaged at 18. Married at 19. First baby at 20. The little house caught our eye when we shouldn’t even have been looking. It was January of 1989, 7 months after I graduated from college and three semesters before John graduated from college. We were paying $280...
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What the Easter story offers grieving humans. Praise God.
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Mouse over the pictures for descriptions. Click on the pictures to enlarge them. For more pictures and the story I promised you about the kitchen fire, check out John’s blog.
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My mom has 8 kids born to her, and 3 more that she welcomed as adults when she married Ron after my first dad died. We don’t all end up in the same place at the same time too often. But on holidays when all her kids manage to come home, my mother has...
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Easter is the perfect example of the truth in this song! Once you feel the weight of glory All your pain will fade to memory It’s just the hurt before the healing Oh the pain that you’ve been feeling It’s just the dark before the morning
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This week we had our yearly trip to the beach.  For a good 15 years we had camping vacations, but these days we rent a house.  Frugality doesn’t go totally out the window:  we always go off-season, and we eat almost exclusively at home. But it is a really fun splurge. In past years...
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The winner of the Oxiclean giveaway is Melanie Roose.  Thanks to everyone who entered!
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