This is it. These are the final cakes of 2007, I am telling you! Even Jesus will not be getting a "Happy Birthday to You Cake" from me this year and I think He is happy to allow me that!
Each year when the kids were little, we acknowledged Christ's birth with a red and green jello-infused white cake topped [...]
Growing up in the 60's and 70's, Christmas trees were much different than they are now. These days everyone has their very own designer-collection-themed-one-of-a-kind-specially-lit-custom-skirted tree…or two. But in the 60's and 70's there were only a couple of ways to go: a real tree, which was like 88.920173% of the population, or a you-can-really-tell-it's-a-fake tree. [...]
The YWAM killings in Arvada, followed by the New life Church killings in Colorado Springs "12 hours and 65 miles" later on Sunday are being sensationalized with headlines like these: GUNMAN THROWN OUT OF MISSIONARY SCHOOL.
It's so inflammatory. Even if it is true, (and isn't it awfully early to make that type of conjecture), it hints [...]
When I was about 10 our family moved across the state where my dad was starting a new church. We left behind aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents and the only neighborhood and house and school I'd ever known.
Sitting alone in the backyard on a tire swing hanging from an old tree, realizing that I [...]
Whew! Wow, that was hard work!
Yesterday was baking day for the Rhoades women and their offspring, accompanied by Christmas music old and new. Grocery bags littered the cupboards as fresh eggs and butter and flour and all-things sugary lept from our recipe pages into Christmas-feasting existence. That is us (pictured) barely started on what [...]
There couldn't be a more perfect day - a soft and fluffy Christmas snow has sugared the ground and branches that surround. The sun shines brightly, causing twinkly reflections. The counter awaits with mixing bowls and colorings and sprinkles in all the appropriate Christmas colors. This is how I romantically imagine a gloriously, grand day of [...]
"My great Aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy everyday of her life. She lived to be a hundred and two and when she'd been dead for 3 days, she looked better than you do right now." - the critic in the 1942 black and white movie, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to [...]
Great gift idea! Stormie's cublicle mate at the graphics company where she works, Amber, creates unique adornments for the discerning, fashion-conscious woman. I like her "chocolate-covered cherry" piece. She does home shows, too!
Give somebody something they've never seen! Visit Amber's site at:
www.amberidesigns.com
Prose I ripped from a magazine in the mid-80s and still consider each year, by Cynthia Macdonald
"What full-born hope-star within your hearts
Made you step out
To seek the One who had not yet
Revealed Himself in straw and hay and human love?
What encounter half-imagined spurred your starlit trip,
Enabled you to risk the Herod-hell of fear and hate?
Did [...]
The daughter of our good friends, Pearl and Bryan, got married Dec. 1. My husband, Dave, performed the ceremony and they actually trusted me to do the cake. Our son Rocky provided the music for the ceremony and our daughters Stephanie and Stormie shot the wedding. They won't let me show any "official" photos until the [...]
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