Last Sunday, Matt and I went on a “penny drive” in order to determine our photo walk destination. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the rules of the penny drive (or walk), it just means that you flip a penny every time you come to a fork in the road: with heads you turn right, …
Book #13: I Am the Messenger
Title: I Am the MessengerAuthor: Markus ZusakNumber of Pages: 357 After the last few disappointing reads, I knew it was high time to get my hands wrapped around something that wouldn’t make me want to hurl it against the window after a few hours of reading. So I picked up I Am the Messenger, a …
Change It Up: Morning Scripture Study
After doing Change It Up Challenges in every other area: intellectual, physical, social, beautiful (ha ha), I knew it was high time to work on the spiritual when I was sitting in church this last Sunday and heard a talk in sacrament meeting that seemed to just clip me up-side the head and say: “This …
Here’s What’s Cooking: Low-Calorie White Chicken Chili (Gluten-Free!)
Since starting the diet changes I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been on the lookout for recipes that are actually good for me AND that taste good. I know, it sometimes seems like an impossible mission, but someone has to do it, right? This particular recipe was adapted from one I got from my …
Tuesday Tell-All
Some random thoughts going through my head today: *I’m so glad there’s toilet paper in our work bathroom; I was tired of the chafing of paper towels. *My days go by so much better now that Matt wakes up early with me. Because of our differing schedules, he used to still be asleep when I …
Amazon.Com Giveaway Winner!
*Drumroll please* And the winner is……SAM from http://samnhal.blogspot.com/ “The Married Couple” Thanks for following, Sam! And stay tuned all you faithful readers out there, for the next 200 posts 🙂
Poetry Sunday: Peace of Wild Things
Photo by Matthew Meidell The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty …
His/Hers: Gardens
Hers His Why yes, that is indeed a rock garden. Plus one avocado pit.