Family Friendly Recipes {31 Days of All Things Children Day 18}

One of the main things I have learned about children through the years is this: they love to eat! Junk food would be their #1 choice, but subsisting on fruit snacks and juice boxes is not a choice in this house. Our kids are actually pretty good eaters. They even eat broccoli! Here are a […]

Carmelized Bananas with Ice Cream

A while back, while perusing my Better Homes and Gardens magazine, I saw a super-simple recipe for  a delicious-looking dessert. Amazingly, I remembered to get all the ingredients for the dessert at the grocery store- without a list. Apparently, I wanted this! 🙂 (I’ll blame it on the baby!)This is a great “company” dessert that […]

A Family Tradition: Family Sabbath Meal

  We love trying out new activities as a family, but sometimes it’s hard to come up with ideas on our own. Something my son’s homeschool curriculum suggested this year is to observe a “Sabbath” meal occasionally. It has been such a meaningful experience- yet very simple- that I thought I would share.   First, […]

Crazy Easy Stacked Enchiladas

I love coming home to a crock pot meal Sundays after  church, and until recently I had completely forgotten about this particular recipe for stacked enchiladas. I used to make it often in our early (very poor!) married days when we lived off venison. This was a super cheap way to have a good, filling […]

Mini S’Mores Pies & Recipe Roundup

I am so excited to share this recipe for S’Mores Pie. With Easter right ahead of us- this pie makes a yummy addition to any celebration. I found the inspiration from a recipe on The Noshery last year, and made it exactly per the instructions. This year, I decided to simplify it a bit and add my […]

A few of my favorite things

Things I’ve been enjoying lately:Seed Bible study by Priscilla Shirer I’ve been co-leading this study with a lady from church, and we have had an amazing time of studying God’s word and growing together.My {pink} iPod touch sourceThis is something I never would have bought for myself, but a very generous person gave it to […]

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