I have to admit that between working a day job full-time, writing full-time, and running Mom's taxi service, I purchase dinner as often as I make it at home. OK, maybe more often than I make it at home. However, with the holidays approaching, I have big plans for getting back into the kitchen. I'll be hosting Thanksgiving and have already purchased the turkey, red garnet yams for my mom's candied … [Read more...]
Favorite Fall Recipes…and pie safes
Here are a couple of my favorite fall recipes. What are some of yours? The first is pumpkin bread. It's impossible to mess this up, and it's sooo yummy! Pumpkin Bread 3 cups plain flour 3 cups white sugar* ½ tsp baking powder 1 ½ tsp salt 2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp each cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg 1 cup oil 1 cup water 1 15-ounce can pumpkin 4 eggs 1 cup chopped … [Read more...]
Making Time to Take Care of Ourselves (and a couple of super easy recipes!)
In my last post I shared the schedule of a typical day in my life. As I mentioned, I don't have "normal" or "typical" days. My days are usually spent scrambling from one child's needs or activities to the next. I know many of you also have very busy lives. We've become a society that runs at top speed. Usually the first thing that happens when life is demanding is that we stop taking care of … [Read more...]
Food Connecting Generations
Happy summer, everyone! The Wades have been traveling! In June our entire family went to California to see my parents, my sister's crew, and extended family. We came home from California, unpacked, did laundry, packed, and left again for Florida to mooch off of spend time with my other sister and her family at the beach house they … [Read more...]
An unexpected blessing
Quick! What's an unexpected blessing in your life right now? A blessing you didn't foresee. Maybe something you thought was going to be really good, but then it turned out to be even better than you ever dreamed! Or perhaps it's something you didn't even dream of, and now you marvel at what a gift God has given you. That's how I feel about you! When I first started writing, I was just … [Read more...]
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