“Domestic Goddess” will never be my title. Becoming Suzy Homemaker is a dream. (More often, my experience is a nightmare.) Every time I cook, I pray that nobody dies from the food I’ve just prepared. So a list of to-do’s (The List) that involves cleaning, shopping, and cooking snatches me away from my happy place. It’s a list of things I don’t consider fun. Sometimes, I put pretty blue bullets next to each group of words on The List to make it a bit more energizing. (Yeah, like that really works.) Sometimes, I scrawl The List on the Continue Reading
She Packed the Lunch
She just packed the lunch. If we’ve been friends here for a while, you may have picked up on this fact: I do not like to cook. Cooking is a stressor that causes my neck to blotch, my face to turn crimson, and the tears to fall. (Actually, they gush.) So. Every single time I read the story of Jesus feeding 5,000+ people, I am stunned. I mean, really. Stunned. Cooking for one sends me into overwhelm. Here’s a recap (Matthew 14:13-21): Jesus had spent the day healing crowds of people. The Bible says he “had compassion on them,” which Continue Reading
Time For a Zip Code Change?
Well, hi there! I’ve got an idea for you, so … Slip off those slippers and slide into something a little more fun. (And no, removing your slippers is not required. But stay with me here.) YOU have this one big, beautiful life. It’s filled with habits and moments and celebrations… and a whole lot of same-old. We like comfortable. We live in comfortable. (If comfortable had a zip code, we’d all have mail there.) But… What if this spring, we switched things up a bit? What if we slipped off the slippers and stepped into Continue Reading