This hearty soup is hubby approved, and it’s actually pretty easy to make. It’s creamy, comforting, and so good! The base of the soup is the tomato parmesan, so if you don’t happen to have the tortellini or the sausage on hand, you could leave those out and it would still be a super yummy dish. I don’t usually have cream on hand, so I usually substitute that part of the recipe with a roux to thicken it up a bit (you’ll see that alternative at the bottom of the recipe). However, for...
I’m guilty. As a mother of one boy and three girls, I admit that I cringe and have to turn away when my husband is rough with my son. Just the other day we went down to the river with another family who has five boys and one girl to cook hotdogs, enjoy the scenery, and let the kids get dirty. Good clean fun! Or rather, good, messy, fun. I don’t know about your husband, but with mine and my friend’s husband, when you mix water and dirt and four-wheelers and campfires….there shall...
It was my son’s turn for a new quilt on his bed. He was the lucky recipient of my very first attempt at quilting. But now as a 9 year old boy, he had outgrown Bob the Builder fabric and Thomas the Train. So he chose this American flag design from “Piece ‘n’ Play Quilts” by Judy Martin. There are several really neat designs in the book! So I spent quite a lot of time making flying geese for the stars. I found a short way to churn out lots of flying geese which I loved. I...
No fuss. Nothing fancy. Sometimes the simplest things are the best. This recipe was born out of necessity. I was out camping with some teenagers and they wanted to go fishing. Great! My hubby took them fishing and they caught some Rainbows. Ah, but you can’t just catch them and throw them away! The teens learned how to gut it and then actually eat it. Eek! They had never had trout. Cue the picky palate. Nervously, I looked through our meager camp food...
It is tempting to despair. In light of the violence and corruption and blatant disregard of the rule of law, I was beginning to despair. What can one say about times like these? Pithy sayings and declarations of our own “pure” thoughts and motives fall short. There have been worse times. There may be worse times yet to come. Perhaps we are seeing the beginning of the end of our great Republic, or perhaps God will lead...
Genesis 1 The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be tramped upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.1 Matthew Henry so succinctly describes woman and her nature and value. What is woman? What is God’s purpose for her? In the wake of feminism and gender identity issues, it would do us well to...
