Last Saturday the gray, rainy skies kept me inside so I pulled out my KitchenAid mixer to make oatmeal cookies. Haven’t done that in ages. It took me back to one of my Mom’s faithful acts of service – filling the cookie jar.  Six kids meant double batches. Homemade cookies evoke all our senses—the whirling [...]

  Water holds life. Every morning I wake up thirsty. I reach for the glass sitting next to my bed and take big sips. Ah-h. It’s like priming my body for the day. I’m spoiled. All I have to do is turn on the kitchen faucet and voila—out comes clean, filtered refreshing water. I’ve noticed [...]

“Oh, no!  Not that again!”  Have you ever heard those words at the dinner table? There’s something to say about variety.  But we also have our favorite foods we never get tired of, right!  Last summer I was shopping at the Farmer’s Market when I discovered a local beekeeper’s pride — vanilla bean honey.  One [...]

                                                 It’s January 31 and today the wind-chill temp in my neighborhood is minus 20. And the harsh winter has a way of shrinking the living space of home. “Stir crazy” fits.  January has been a  long month for young Minnesota moms caring for sick children. My daughter’s household has been hit by strep, flu, roseola, double ear infections [...]

    Children are perceptive. When our first-born daughter Jill had bouncing pigtails I remember her looking at me with her saucer-round blue eyes saying, “Mommy, Christmas is when God became little.”  I smiled. Little holds much.  By faith we understand that God became little to provide for us a lavish welcome to the table of [...]