Blessings To Go: Thoughtful Goodbye Gifts for Friends Who Relocate
By Anjanette Barr, Contributing Writer Nothing can completely take away the sorrow of saying goodbye to a beloved community and making a new home elsewhere, but earlier this year when my family set off on our grand adventure (Kansas City to ALASKA!), our friends certainly made an impressive effort to comfort us and smooth our transition!… Read More
Hospitality: Is it more than just opening your home?
By Beth Branstetter, Contributing Writer When I hear the word, “hospitality,” I automatically think of inviting people into my home. I start to think of dinner parties, birthday parties, holiday parties, and more. I think of my mom, because hospitality is one of her gifts. My mom has a way of making people feel welcome… Read More
Grilled Chicken Fajitas
By Ashley Roe, Contributing Writer My husband and I go through phases where we eat a lot of chicken. I buy the large packages of fresh chicken breasts whenever they go on sale so we tend to have at least a few pieces in the freezer. I like that it can be used so many… Read More
Farro Salad a la Juneau ~ A Healthy One-Bowl Summer Dinner
Post by Anjanette Barr, Contributing Writer Until a few weeks ago Farro could have been the name of an Italian car for all I knew! I would have at least had the Italian part right. When it arrived in the mail from a lovely family member who knows how much I love to eat cook for my… Read More
Homemaking While Working Outside the Home
By Heather Faria, Contributing Writer When I was engaged to be married, I was filled with plans and dreams for what my life would be like as a new wife! One of the desires I probably clung to the hardest was to be a stay at home wife. Growing up, I had been taught that in… Read More
Portrait of a Titus 2 Woman
By Katie, Contributing Writer For my birthday, a friend of mine gave me a book by Carolyn Mahaney. Carolyn and her daughters are the authors of the website Girl Talk. It’s a fantastic resource for women! The book is called Feminine Appeal. I have just started it but it is very good so far. She is basing the… Read More
Just Do the Next Thing – My Homemaking Motto
Post by Anjanette Barr, Contributing Writer I had been married for almost three years and was desperately in love with my life. My sweet little boy had a permanent place on my hip and I couldn’t wait for my husband to come home so that I could tell him about every second of fun we’d… Read More
The Madness of Multitasking
By Lauren Huss, Contributing Writer The whole family was together. Lounging around the family room enjoying each other’s company… Sort of. I surveyed the ridiculous scene. The talking heads arguing about the news of the day in high-def. Husband stretched out in the recliner, Kindle Fire in hand, scanning an e-book while awaiting his next… Read More
Hospitality through the Bible: New Testament
This post is part of my series on The Joy of Hospitality: Practicing the Biblical art of serving others! You can follow along and read all posts in the series HERE. Any discussion of Biblical hospitality, must first naturally start with the Bible. Yesterday we dove into the Old Testament to find out what it has to… Read More
Hospitality Through the Bible: Old Testament
This post is part of my series on The Joy of Hospitality: Practicing the Biblical art of serving others! You can follow along and read all posts in the series HERE. Hospitality is a very foreign concept in our modern North American society. We are exchanging deep conversations for 140 character tweets. Conversations are becoming… Read More