by Kristen | Jan 9, 2019 | Breakfast Recipes, Recipes
My daughter’s birthday started up bright and exciting with an urgent breakfast request.”Mom, make me waffles, please! You can’t say no, it’s my birthday!” And she was right, I couldn’t say no, not only because it was her birthday,...
by Kristen | Jan 8, 2019 | Life and Faith, On My Bookshelf
I learned oh so many things about the scriptures on my trip to Israel and Palestine in 2018. Most importantly, I found that many of the pictures I had in my mind of the Bible were actually pretty inaccurate. The tour leader told us right from the time we boarded the...
by Kristen | Jan 2, 2019 | Life and Faith
For years I watched people choose words to set an intention for their new year with curiosity, but since I had such a track record of failing and resolutions I never gave it a shot. Until 2018. The end of 2017 was one of the most tumultuous times of my personal life...
by Kristen | Dec 23, 2018 | Holiday Recipes, Recipes, Recipes with Essential Oils
Every single Christmas season my mother’s mother, Grammy, would make the most delicious Swedish Pepparkakor cookies. For the uninitiated, pepparkakor is a thin, crisp, spicy molasses cookie that is a little like gingerbread, but SO much better. My grandparents...
by Kristen | Dec 21, 2018 | Dessert Recipe, Recipes
M&M Cookies are the best This Christmas has been a whirlwind of activity! We’ve got an amazing church and wonderful group of friends, so we have been having a ton of fun. Add to the stack that we recently did a cross-town move to a new home, and you’ve...
