Really Woolly Bible Stories

Really Woolly Bible Stories

It doesn’t get much cuter than Julie Sawyer Phillips’ “Really Woolly” character illustrations.  And coupled with Bible stories set to rhyme in a board book with easy words children can understand, Really Woolly Bible Stories makes the perfect read-aloud with my almost-3-year-old and 1-year-old. Bonnie Rickner Jensen covers the highlights of the Bible, from Creation…

open-face sandwiches

We revisited the deliciousness the summer my cousin Abbie was here.  It wasn’t as if I had never had a BLT before, but these things that Abbie called “open-faced sandwiches”—a staple in her family—were amazing, especially on my sister-in-law’s homemade bread with fresh ground wheat.  And, the best part of all was that Abbie’s open-faced…

Fred & Betty

Dearest Fred, Can you believe that today marks 14 years since our families met?  We were just-barely-turned 13-year-olds.  We had no idea we would be meeting our future spouse that day.  But the God-ordained timing of the Riverside Geyser in Yellowstone National Park on September 30, 1996 changed our lives forever. It was three and…

September days

By all these lovely tokensSeptember days are here,With summer’s best of weatherAnd autumn’s best of cheer.-Helen Hunt Jackson, September My favorite month of the year is more than half over.  My hubby and I have celebrated our birthdays together. My dear cousin has wed the man of her dreams. A dear family friend has moved…

9/11/2001

Dearest, As with so many, many things in my life, my memories of September 11, 2001, are all intertwined with memories of you. My dad, brother Will, and I had gotten up early that morning.  We were driving here to help your family with building your parents’ home.  The Country radio station was on (it…

The Birthday Girl

August 31, 2010 Dear Mary Kate, Was it really just a year ago this morning that your big sister walked into the hospital room to find “the baby” out of mommy’s tummy in the form of you?  Was it really just a year ago today that we brought you home to the beginnings of a…

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