My dh is one of the hard ones to buy for at Christmas. It’s not that he’s a scrooge, but he really does NOT want money spent on him. This year, he told me, “All I want for Christmas is you, babe.” (Haha, not really.) He said, “I’d really like it if you could find [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Fun topic! Unique gifts…
It comes to mind because I was absolutely floored when dh brought in his finished shop project and gave it to the girls the other night. I knew he was working on something, but I was thinking a little more along the lines of…a doll house?
Seems he’s been putting his head [...]
Well, we didn’t get snow this Christmas, but it was COLD at least! Too cold for my fil to get the go-kart out for rides. And no snow for his homemade tobaggan. Yes, we have some fun times. Like sledding or skiing down snow covered country roads behind zipping four-wheelers. Yee-HAW!
But four different festivities in 3 [...]
Blueberry Buckle for Christmas Breakfast
Published by December 24th, 2006 in Cooking and Food and Family Ties. 13 CommentsTwas the night before Christmas… ;O)
I think I’m ready, how about you? I love to have everything done the night before so we can laze around and enjoy being together Christmas morning. Dh gets tomorrow off! To you city folks, that may seem like a given, but agricultural folks work round the clock…cattle need fed [...]
A Christmas Version of 1 Corinthians 13
Published by December 24th, 2006 in Christianity and Family Ties. 9 CommentsMy mil emailed this to me:
I CORINTHIANS 13 – A CHRISTMAS VERSION
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging [...]
Christmas is a good time for memories. My grandparents are all gone on to Heaven, so memories are all I have. Memories and the “things” they gave me to remember them by. Aren’t those things special? A keepsake teacup, or dish. Paintings…
The other night, the auger that feeds corn into our corn stove froze up, [...]
Dh and I were watching a Jack Johnson dvd that the “surfin’ cowboy” loaned us last week. One of Jack’s songs, “Symbol In My Driveway” really provoked my attention. I wasn’t sure of the exact lyrics so I looked them up online here.
The lines that arrested me:
“I’ve got a lightbulb full of anger and I can switch [...]
Chocolate Cream Roll
Published by December 19th, 2006 in Cooking and Food and Family Ties. 10 CommentsLeticia asked me to post this recipe, and I’m finally getting around to it. Since seeing it on the November 1979 cover of Family Circle Magazine, it’s been a birthday request every year by me and my sisters, and subsequently, by several of our children!
Can’t touch this masterpiece of rich chocolate with hints of coffee in [...]
How often does your mouth get you into trouble? Most of us do pretty well…outside the house…but how many struggle with keeping Christ-like with our immediate family?
James 1:19 says,
“Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath.”
What a practical scripture! But putting it into practice, in the heat of the [...]
“We expect too much at Christmas. It’s got to be magical. It’s got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love’s the thing. The rest is tinsel.” Pam Brown
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning [...]
