Month: September 2023

  • Mastercard Garden Reflections

    Mastercard Garden Reflections

    Hello tender friends! Our garden regularly makes me cry the good kind of tears. As the season winds down, I’m getting nostalgic. Maybe you remember the Mastercard commercials from the late 90s. My nostalgia and remembering those commercials has inspired this: Seeds to plant for the next season-$120 A new hose and sprinkler – $90…

  • Should I Rename This Blog?

    Hello, tender friends! Please help me! I can’t believe it’s already been almost a year of blogging. I got the email about this domain name renewing last week, and I’m thinking about renaming this blog. I’d love to hear your thoughts about this. Here are two ideas I have with a brief explanation, but I’m…

  • Joy is Free
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    Joy is Free

    Hello, tender friends! Joy is simple, like a tulip. Joy is simple, like bare hands in dark soil. Joy is simple, like a belly laugh from a 3-year old. At the gas pump last Sunday morning, I relished Cub’s joy. While Anthony stood outside my car filling my tank, he ducked down so Cub couldn’t…

  • Has AI Infiltrated WordPress?

    Hello tender friends! I try to remain positive, as I don’t want people to be wasting their life force energy with negative feelings. We have a limited amount of energy while we’re on this Earth, and I aspire to provide content that will make people feel more energetic in a positive way- more energized to…

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    Party Hot Sauce

    Hello tender friends! I didn’t know a hot sauce could taste FUN until Anthony made this. But habanero hot sauce puts me in a party mood! Also, even though this recipe uses pineapple, and pineapple isn’t typically keto-friendly, you use eat such a small amount at one time that I don’t think the carb count…

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    Raising Up Righteousness: Proverbs 22:6

    Hello tender friends! The window of time we have to mold our kids can be terrifying. Nobody wants their kid to end up a jerk, and so many experiences when kids are young create lifelong preferences. The first time I walked into the church where Anthony and I met and got married, I took a…

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    Just Call Me the Ant!

    Hello tender friends! Remember the fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Nobody wants to be a grasshopper. Spending two hours of the morning harvesting okra and tomatoes may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but fortunately it’s mine! Being out in the early morning light while the ground is still wet with…

  • Famous in My Father’s Eyes

    Hello tender friends! I’m sorry this post is a day late. Anthony worked all weekend. So we spent the day at home yesterday just enjoying the time together since we hadn’t seen each other since Thursday. (It was also our 7-year anniversary, but we were a little too tuckered out to do anything). So let’s…