My family’s favorite Christmas gingerbread can be eaten as a snack, dessert, or even as a yummy breakfast treat! Spray an 8 x 8 pan with non-stick coating. Preheat oven to 35oF. Mix together: 1 stick softened butter 2 eggs 1/2 cup unsweetened yogurt or …
Book Review: The Twelve Teas of Christmas
The Twelve Teas of Christmas (affiliate link to Amazon.com) by Emilie Barnes Paintings by Sandy Lynam Clough Harvest House Publishers If you want a lovely gift book that inspires you to serve tea during the holidays and beyond, you’ll enjoy The Twelve Teas of Christmas. It …
Can You Experience Christmas Anew this Year?
A Facebook entry proclaimed 36 days to Christmas. As if in response to that notification, a question from my quiet time reading asked, How can you experience Christmas anew this year? For me, the answer might come through reading the Christmas story in John 1:1-18. Throughout …
Quick and Simple Banana Bread
Are you looking for some quick, easy, and inexpensive gift ideas for your neighbors, Sunday School teachers, or guests during the holidays? Earlier in the week I shared Homemade Hot Chocolate gifts and today, banana bread. Both recipes are two, never-fail suggestions that will leave …
Plan a Silent Night
In December, my husband and I set aside one evening to listen to a recording of Handel’s magnificent Messiah. The twinkling tree lights, blazing fire, and cups of hot chocolate create a cozy atmosphere as we listen to the music and focus on Jesus’ birth. …
A Different Kind of Christmas this Year
I love Christmas! If it sparkles or twinkles, I think we need two. You can imagine my inner struggle as my daughter, who has been serving on mission in a third world country, came home frustrated with the excess we live with in America. Through tears …
Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
Are you looking for some quick, easy, and inexpensive gift ideas for your neighbors, Sunday School teachers, or guests during the holidays? Here is the first of two I will be sharing this week. Both are never-fail suggestions that will leave the recipients of the …
December ~ A Simple Christmas
“The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I think of a simple Christmas, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s description of childhood in a log cabin …
We Thank You God
We Thank You God We thank you, God, for sun and rain And golden grain that trembles in the breeze; For wind and snow and seeds that grow To high and mighty trees. We thank you, God, for a warm embrace, Autumn’s grace that has …
Mini Chocolate Pecan Pies
There are a few things that make me question my legitimacy as a good Southern girl. I don’t like sweet tea (gasp!). And I don’t like pecan pie. Now I don’t know what to do about the sweet tea but I’ve found a way to …