Merry Christmas!!

I’m sitting at the bar in the kitchen on my laptop, watching my husband whipping up a batch of bread dough in the KitchenAide for our Christmas dinner rolls. He has already blessed us with waffles and whole berry syrup […]

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Another Birthday – Mine!

It seems so easy to post about my girls’ birthdays, but I don’t think I’ve ever posted about mine. It was yesterday. My mom called to sing “Happy Birthday” to me and asked if I felt 37. I told her […]

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My Nativity

My friend Autumn has been posting about all things Christmas for over two weeks now. Each day is dedicated to one particular aspect of the Christmas season. Her post about Ornaments – specifically ornaments that she has collected from her […]

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Ode to Robert

It’s been sort of a rough week. My good friend Robert, who sold bread with his wife Joan at the booth next to mine at the farmer’s market, passed away on Sunday. Visitation was yesterday, and the funeral was this […]

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Mother’s Day For the Birds

You might think by my title that perhaps I had a horrible Mother’s Day yesterday. I had a pretty good day, actually. We left church a bit early and had a delicious lunch at Jose Pepper’s around 11:30 – before […]

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Happy Resurrection Sunday!

Yesterday our family spent some time doing yard work together, dying Easter eggs, and having an egg hunt – with the plastic eggs full of candy, or course! We even went to Walmart to buy the oldest a new bicycle […]

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I’m Not Cool

I had a conversation with my baby girl (who will be six in August) two days ago. It was one of those sweet moments where she was snuggling up next to me as we were sitting on the stairs, and […]

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Handmade Natural Soap

Handmade natural soap has been available from Great Cakes Soapworks for over four years now. I registered my company with the Kansas Department of Revenue on January 11, 2005. Before that, I was selling my soaps under the business name […]

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A Little Vacation

I’m taking a little vacation the next four days. I get to visit my friend Summer in Ohio! She’s one of my very best friends, and if I didn’t have a soap business, we never would have met. Summer bought […]

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Go See Fireproof!

My husband and girls and I went with some friends to see “Fireproof” at the movie theater yesterday afternoon. Wow. It was amazing! This is the third film produced by Sherwood Pictures out of Albany, Georgia, and they keep getting […]

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