The sounds and smell of food cooking on the stove or in the oven are something comforting to my senses, and I also feel cared for when I know someone is sacrificially cooking for me out of love and kindness. In the supper table mealtimes of our daily life,...
Dinner’s on! Dinner is ready and in pots on the stove. Everyone grabs a plate, serves themselves, and heads to the living room. Dad turns on the show we’ve been watching. We say grace and eat while we watch the show and talk. Yes, we talk while we watch...
My mom was a simple cook. I don’t have any ingredient-smudged recipe cards of famous homemade dishes she passed down. But I have sweet memories of talk radio shows or baseball games blaring while she made chocolate chip cookies from the recipe off the back of the chocolate chip...
Over the years, our home has become quite the revolving door. From new faces, to familiar, people grace our doorstep for all kinds of reasons. Between visiting family members for holidays, neighbor kids snagging a snack in the middle of their game of streetball, or collegiate sports players coming...
Serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13 NIV There they were. Nestled on small hand-patted corn tortillas along with crema and a few strands of raw cabbage. At first, I was unsure of their true origin, until I asked our culturally minded friend and fellow missionary. Once informed, I...
Summers during childhood are magical. I know I look fondly back on mine even though it wasn’t anything fancy. I’m convinced that my kids will look back on their childhood summers joyfully with little intervention from me. Spending hours outside playing in the sunshine, exercising their wild imaginations, running...
“Should we just invite the Haws over? Start up the Taco Tournament?” The sky had opened up and, with it, our evening; soggy fields were postponing our sons’ baseball game again. Everything in me ached to say no. The last time my floors had been mopped skinny jeans were...
It’s the time of year again when our chickens are in full egg-production mode and baskets overflowing with eggs are taking over our kitchen counter. Selling them here and there is fun and giving them away to friends and family is a sweet gesture. Just don’t forget to preserve...
It’s Springtime as I am writing this, but today I’m thinking of Fall and Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday. It’s a day for family to be together and to enjoy all the festive food. For my American Southern family, that has meant preparing and eating mounds of roasted turkey,...
Wife to an entrepreneur. Mother to three young daughters and a toddler son. Nurse for over a decade. I’m so excited to share my thoughts about faith, family, food, and the farm with you. Here we go!
