***I’ve got a few giveaways to catch up on this week. Let’s call it Christmas in July, shall we?*** We ran into Walmart over the weekend for a couple things (it’s never just a couple things, is it?!), and had to check the clearance section for next year’s baseball gloves. Motoring through the aisles, I [...]
You know what feels pitiful? Tinkering around in my garden, watering (a lot) in the midst of the driest, hottest Kansas summer I can remember, coaxing production out of plants that do not make or break my diet, or my life, while farmers all around us, including my own in-laws, are making hard decisions about [...]
I don’t know how to write this post, and I certainly don’t know how to title it. We’ve enjoyed light-hearted conversations here recently about the ideals of family planning, knowing that the planning really isn’t (and shouldn’t be) entirely up to us in the first place. The overall theme? Children are a blessing whenever they [...]
I am the Queen of Good Intentions. There are 35 baby thank yous in my “project” bag; signed, sealed, but not addressed, even after I made the cutest stamps for them. Our Christmas cards, the ones I was thrilled to have made for $4.90, are still sitting at the end of my bed… along with [...]
While searching the Christmas clearance aisle for tissue paper today (no, I didn’t find any…) I had to stop at the dollar bins of holiday party favors/stocking stuffers. Our church traditionally fills boxes for Operation Christmas Child each year. At 50% off, I was able to score a lot of fun items for next year’s [...]
