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A Conviction Put to Words I have a conviction. It’s one that I never intended to share on the blog. It’s personal; convictions often times are. It’s a conviction that has stirred deep down in my heart since we began this whole food journey almost 2 years ago, but one that I’ve only recently been […]

A Vision for 2014 on From Famine to Foodie, and How We Need You to Make it Happen!

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That Looming Hour at the End of a Day Looming at the end of our day’s to-do list, dinner often evokes a slight sense of both panic and dread as the hour grows nearer and prep time grows shorter. Time originally planned for dinner’s creation is increasingly swallowed up by the tasks preceding it. Hours […]

Where Your Time Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also – How To Make Calzones From Scratch (With Recipe)

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Once-Perfect-Now-Broken We found the perfect tree this year. That is, until a toddler came along and made a poor choice, a door fell, a crash was heard, and the tree was found laying discombobulated on the floor. The tree wasn’t the only one left discombobulated. Branches bent, gaping holes, broken ornaments, lights falling off. A […]

Keeping Christmas Imperfect – Finding Joy In The Unspectacular

Winter

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Once-Perfect-Now-Broken We found the perfect tree this year. That is, until a toddler came along and made a poor choice, a door fell, a crash was heard, and the tree was found laying discombobulated on the floor. The tree wasn’t the only one left discombobulated. Branches bent, gaping holes, broken ornaments, lights falling off. A […]

Keeping Christmas Imperfect – Finding Joy In The Unspectacular

Winter

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The Most Hilarious Meal Of The Year If I were to ask you to recount to me the most hilarious meal you’ve sat down to in the past year, would it quickly come to mind? For me this is easy. Dinner on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Every year. Preserving Thanksgiving In a society where Thanksgiving […]

The Most Hilarious Meal Of The Year – My Family’s Annual Cooking Competition

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Celebrating The Small Victories In Eating Well On Thursday I began sharing a conviction I’ve had recently to celebrate the small victories in life. When we faced a recent setback in eating whole foods, I looked back to realize that despite the setback, we had a whole lot of small victories to celebrate! One of […]

Celebrating The Small Victories In Eating Well, Switching From Commercial to Pasture (free-range) Eggs, Part 2

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There Is Always Reason To Celebrate Some days seem unfruitful. Unproductive. So swallowed up in distractions that I have no time to even begin writing out my to-do list, let alone cross anything off of it. But then I stop, and it’s with this cease to push and strive  that something far greater results– I […]

Celebrating The Small Victories In Eating Well, Switching From Commercial to Pasture (free-range) Eggs, Part 1

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I’ve been reading this book. It’s one of those books that you pick up, and you just can’t set it down. It draws you in, the words so raw and ideas so profound, compelling, convicting, that you want to stop reading. But you can’t. It necessitates change. 1. The little boy laughing in his sleep […]

I Will Magnify Him With Thanksgiving – One Thousand Gifts

Motherhood

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Some Sound Advice on Approaching Strangers During my high school years my sister and I worked together at Panera bread. One Halloween my boss somehow convinced us to go out reverse trick or treating as a means of advertising. Dressed up in our Panera aprons and hats, we set out with bags of fresh bagels […]

Meeting Our Neighbors The Amish Way – A Recipe For Autumn Ginger Spice Cookies

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Some Sound Advice on Approaching Strangers During my high school years my sister and I worked together at Panera bread. One Halloween my boss somehow convinced us to go out reverse trick or treating as a means of advertising. Dressed up in our Panera aprons and hats, we set out with bags of fresh bagels […]

Meeting Our Neighbors The Amish Way – A Recipe For Autumn Ginger Spice Cookies

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  The Things We Do For Love The summer before we married, Grayson spent a couple of months working for a road construction crew in Oklahoma. It was a desperate yet romantic act on his part to save for an engagement ring. At the same time, I was working my only ever corporate job, traveling […]

How To Make Just About Anything In A Toaster Oven, Even Soup – A Recipe For Roasted Tomato, Pepper And Garlic Soup

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