As you probably have figured out, I love cooking, baking and pretty much anything to do with food! For the next few posts, I will be sharing recipes and how to’s that you, my loyal readers, have asked for. That said, I am not the queen of cooking! I do not have all the answers….
Best Ever Scones
Year ago I worked at a wonderful little tea room where the owner made the most delectable ever scones. Since the place closed, the recipes also are seemingly forever lost. So, I went on a quest to find THE perfect recipe. In my mind, I remember my dear amazing chef friend telling me that the…
Discounted Miracles
We as Mennonites are real big into discounts. The cheaper the better. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that…I do think how ever, that we do a tremendous disservice to the name of Christ when we “discount” the miracles He does in our lives.Like the most recent “big miracle” in my personal life…Don’t get me wrong….
2 decades plus…
21 years ago I said I do to the man I had dreamt of marrying for several years. I could not believe when my prayers were really truly answered and he called and asked me out that September night in 1996. We dated for 3 months (yup…truly) and got engaged during the 1997 New Year’s…
Real. Different. Real Different…(and all that entails)
I have always had my quirks, those things that make me me. I cherish the unique, the stuff that sets me apart. Sometimes it’s been simply clothing. I love my multi colored shoes from 10th grade and my black and white dress that had both stripes and polka dots on it. I derived a sense…
It’s grief week…
Well folks, the time is here.That time of year when Dorothy gets all sappy and posts a million things more in addition to her usual blather.Grief week ~ year number 3. I had made big plans this year to have everything be more normal, more low key. Then death and terminal illness reared their ugly heads…
What if…
The past 2 1/2 years have been filled with lots of different questions and a million different emotions. I had thought that by this point in the journey that my emotional process may be different and that in some miraculous way the urges to flee from the suffocating stages of grief may have diminished. They…
That kind of friend…
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better then walking alone in the light” – Helen Kellar I’ve been in one of those darker brooding times where I contemplate life and all that entails. As I sit looking I see a mix of joy and sadness. But sometimes, it seems, the sadness and big…
2 years….Grieving Abby – Lessons I am learning in the process
Ahhh. Here I am once more. I have been contemplating this post for some time and what I would share during this grief week, our time of remembering.Because of my private fb grief blog, some of my thoughts have already been stated. There are those however that were just waiting to be spelled out here…