Word for the Year
Instead of resolutions, I’ve often found it helpful to pick a word to highlight my intention for the overarching theme of my year. This year my word is: transform.
Polly Castor
Bits and Clips for December 2015
Here are the best articles, videos, and memes that crossed my path on the internet this month.
Ideas for Self-Care
Most people I know do a better job loving others than themselves. So in thinking about what ways we can better love ourselves, I’ve been led to offer the following list to encourage you to do more for yourself in some (large or small) ways in the New Year.
Books We Got for Christmas
Here are the books we got for Christmas. I received two art books and two cookbooks, all of which I will pour over.
Pottery We Made for My Husband
Both our youngest and I gave my husband (her father) pottery that we made for Christmas.
Christmas 2015
Having a family is a huge deal. Like with Mary with the baby Jesus, we celebrate the birth, but then the real work begins of doing right by those blessings God has given. What an exercise for the heart! And what an example both Mary and Jesus are for navigating that territory.
Book Review: Goodness and Light
The selections in here are from a wide range of great writers, from many different angles on the Christian experience.
Silliness While Picking Out a Tree
We were very silly picking out the tree last night, which is one of the handful of things we traditionally do all together.
Recipe: Roasted Vegetable Salad
I created this salad for a church potluck Christmas party yesterday. Everyone really liked it and asked for the recipe.
Feed the Right Wolf
The quote below was sent me, and since I think it is very pertinent, I pass it along to you, even though the original source of it is not known…
Reading Challenge for 2015 Finished
This was fun, and if you didn’t join me in this reading challenge this past year, I hope you will do the one with us that we devise for next year!
Newly Out of the Kiln
Here are two larger platters in a day lily theme that have just come out of the kiln.
Christmas Break Begins
This is the first blog post I am trying to do from my phone. I’m picking up our youngest from her first term in college; she did really well. Check out all the empty (huge) whole grain “fishy” boxes we cleared out of her room.