You don't have to leave home to have an adventure. Just invite your neighbor to dinner.
My philosophy on hosting.
The thing about horribleness is that I usually don’t know it’s there. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I wake up and I’m mad. Horribly mad. I’m mad at my kids for not appreciating the eggs I make them. I’m mad that I’m up making eggs. I’m mad! Thanks be to God, that’s not how I usually function. Horribleness just lurks behind […]
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Do you have a way to celebrate your memories? My family has a memory jar. It looks like a half-gallon mason jar stuffed with scraps of paper, sitting on my kitchen window sill. I was in a crafty mood when I adopted it, so it has a layer of gold glitter on the bottom. On New Year’s Day, my […]
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Christmas is one of those remarkable days that takes up an entire month. Praise God that there are not too many of these in our calendar! That being said, I do love this season. We don’t do too much holiday hosting during December. Surprised? Everybody’s calendar seems quite full. People are often stressed by the idea of fitting in a […]
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I’m sympathetic to unmet goals. I found an old journal recently. In it, I had mapped out my goals of taking up both golf and jogging, learning stock trading and purchasing a franchise. Nope, didn’t succeed at any of them. It’s okay. Sometimes we set goals to try things out, like trying on clothes. Some activities and jobs just don’t […]
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