: Life is hard. God is good. We need each other.
Alfajores are sweet sandwich cookies filled with Dulce de Leche. They are surprisingly easy to make and decadently amazing!!
Have you boarded the dulce de leche train yet? Thick, rich caramel. Amazingly decadent.
I found this recipe when looking for recipes to make for a girls movie night a couple of years ago. We were watching Evita, and I was searching for recipes from Argentina. These little gems appeared, and I was smitten.
Family games for Christmas are a great idea! Links to lots of games your older kids and teens will love. Start a new tradition this Christmas!
Do you have a family gift tradition? Some families open new pajamas on Christmas eve. Some give a family movie or have a tradition of hot chocolate in new mugs.
We are a game playing family, and so we like to wrap up a new family game to open on Christmas. It started when the boys were quite young. Hungry Hungry Hippos was the first game made a family gift. Over the years our games have grown up with the boys.
If you’re looking for some unique ideas for a game for your family, I’ve compiled a round up here to give you some ideas. While many of these would be great for upper elementary aged kids and older, we got them because they’re games that both teens and adults enjoy playing.
Community. We all like the idea of community, but the reality of sharing our lives with other flawed humans often doesn’t play out the way we imagine. Several articles came across my feeds this week about this topic, and they motivated me to look through some things I’d saved to find more on the timely reminder.
Here’s what I’ve been reading:
Allie is a former neighbor and my boys’ favorite babysitter. She is the kind of young lady who would, every once in awhile, refuse payment, saying, “I just want to bless you.” Her ‘magic’ tricks kept the boys completely mesmerized. (I’m pretty sure this involved her hiding things behind her back and pulling them out with flourish, but what do I know?) My boys are teenagers now, older than Allie was when she babysat them.
And we owe her a debt of gratitude we can never repay. You see, my youngest son is here because of Allie.
This wild rice & cornbread stuffing recipe is the perfect new addition to your meal!
Does it matter to you if I call this stuffing or dressing? I think that technically anything not baked in the bird is called dressing. However, I associate the word dressing with the gloppy wet side dish my grandma made that I refused to eat. It didn’t look tasty.
So this may technically be dressing, but I call it stuffing. Either way, major yum!
I am a real fan of traditional stuffing. But I’m an even bigger fan of this unique and amazingly delicious wild rice and cornbread stuffing. The slightly nutty wild rice and slightly sweet cornbread make the perfect combination.
If you’re looking for something new to try, I highly suggest this recipe.
Finding meaning and worship in the songs of the season. The lyrics of Christmas carols speak of Christ’s birth, but they also often describe his second coming.
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
The lyrics of this song are haunting. Of all the Christmas music that we hear this time of year this one touches me more than any.
These words tell of our Messiah Jesus’ birth, that we celebrate at Christmas. But whenever I hear them, I think, as well, that they speak to his second coming. The song is almost mournful in its longing for fulfillment and they well up that feeling within me.
Longing for my Savior to come.