In all my years of cooking and baking, I have never seen this message on my flour before: Interesting. I will remember to cook my flour fully next time before enjoying for sure now!  

We are still packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. I have heard over the years that the boys aged 10-14 receive the fewest boxes, so many of my boxes are for that age group. Today’s box is called Building the Kingdom Contents include: Pliers 6 in 1 screwdriver Tape measure Rope Dice Cards Soccer ball… Continue reading Box of the Week: Building the Kingdom

A little souvenir from my morning commute:

This year, I made it a goal to give a little something to our daughters teachers once a month (ish). If you read last month, I gave them an apple and caramel. This month, I came up with this idea: A cute fall mug with some autumn drink mixes. Then, I wrapped them all up… Continue reading Happy Fall Teachers

Every October, I have a need to make sausage – I’m not even German (well, a little bit) but it just sounds good. I also have a lot of garden produce that needs used so I came up with this sheet pan dinner: The veggie colors are so pretty – it just looks like Autumn.… Continue reading Dinner Idea: Sausage and Root Veggies

This box was for a boy age 5-9 Contents: Coloring Book Crayons Markers Glue Sticks (2) Pencils Eraser Pencil Sharpener Ruler Balls Hot Wheels Cup, plate, bowl Soap Wash cloth Bandaids Facial Tissue Comb Toothbrush Socks Dinosaur Shirt Dinosaur Stickers Dinosaur hole punch 2 play dinosaurs

Last week our school hosted PSAT test and the parents always offer a grab-n-go breakfast for the teachers on that day. My unofficial job, over the years, has become tableware and decor. I love doing it and I’m glad we get to bless our teacher in this way. I didn’t actually attend the breakfast this… Continue reading Teacher Breakfast

It’s time for Operation Christmas Child again and I am having a great time packing some shoeboxes. It touches me so much that each box represents a child and a life or lives that could be changed forever. This week, my box is for a 10-14 aged boy and I like to call it “Fishers of… Continue reading Box of the Week: Fishers of Men

Lunchbox that is…I did a fall theme lunch last week for our daughter. We entertained a ministry guest and had a lot of late night meals, so I included some leftover queso dip with some leaf shaped tortilla chips (Trader Joes if you have one.) The bag contains pumpkin spice pumpkin seeds and the yellow… Continue reading Theme Thursday: Fall is in the Box

I decided at the beginning of the year to try and do a little more to thank our daughter’s teachers. In August, I gave them the hand sanitizers and this month, I came up with these little cuties: I bought the individual size caramel dips and a bag of apples I had the bags and… Continue reading An Apple for the Teacher