What my home says about me…

Seen at Addie’s Random Rambling: What Your Home Says About You You come across as very intellectual. People take your wisdom seriously. Your hygiene is passable, but you may be hiding some dirty secrets. You are a very domestic person. You enjoy decorating, cooking, and making things homey. You are not a nurturing person by [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details. I’m thankful for this meme because I’m not naturally a positive-thinking, look-for-the-good type of person. While I might originally think it [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Sing! Sing a Song

The weekly Booking Through Thursday question for today is: If you’re anything like me, there are songs that you love because of their lyrics; writers you admire because their songs have depth, meaning, or just a sheer playfulness that has nothing to do with the tunes. So, today’s question? What songs … either specific songs, [...]

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Boyz cooking

(Updated with pictures!) My oldest son, Jeremy, is anticipating moving out on his own some time, so for Christmas he asked for the book How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. Then as my husband was shopping for video games for the youngest for Christmas, he saw a Personal Trainer: Cooking Game for the Nintendo [...]

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Book Review: What Women Wish You Knew About Dating

Some months ago I saw What Women Wish You Knew About Dating: A Single Guy’s Guide to Romantic Relationships by Stephen W. Simpson mentioned on a couple of blogs with, if I remember correctly, the first chapter included on one. Having two sons of dating age and one approaching it in a few years, I [...]

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Blue Monday: Love Plaque

Smiling Sally hosts a Blue Monday in which we can post about anything blue — pretty, ugly, serious or funny — and then link up to other Blue Monday participants. I saw this at our local Christian bookstore and loved it. My husband got it for me this last year for Mother’s Day.

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My Jesus Fair

“My Jesus Fair” is a new hymn written by Pastor Chris Anderson. I had read the words on his site some time back, and I don’t remember what my reaction was — positive, I’m sure — but this morning a young man sang it as a solo at our church, and, my, what a blessing. [...]

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Stray Thoughts and Links

I can’t seem to get enough sleep this week. I don’t know if it is “recovery” from the holidays and a busy last week or what. Well…it might have something to do with staying up too late and then getting up at the regular time to get Jesse off to school. But even then, on [...]

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Whose life is it, anyway?

It’s interesting how God brings something to my attention just as I need it. I had just been chafing under an area of service to another, a particularly minor service, when Michelle’s post about serving the Lord with gladness convicted me. That led me to thinking about serving one another in love. Then last night [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: The Best?

The weekly Booking Through Thursday question for today is: It’s a week or two later than you’d expect, and it may be almost a trite question, but … what were your favorite books from 2008? (It’s an oldie but a goodie question for a reason, after all … because, who can’t use good book suggestions [...]

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