I love thumbing through cookbooks! A couple weeks ago, my Aunt Mary happened to mention a little church cookbook that had belonged to my Grandma. “The one with Grandma Van’thof’s peanut butter cookies?” I asked. The very one. She brought it over to me that weekend.

“Kook’n & Bak’n Time,” was one of maybe three cookbooks in my mom’s drawer, when I was growing …Read More

I really do prefer going through life, following day to day routines, keeping schedules, and establishing rituals. When I first married, I was able to clean the house every Saturday. Fridays were grocery shopping days. I planned out meals ahead of time and wrote them down neatly on paper. Life was precise and orderly. And then I had eight kids.

We clean whenever I can gather enough kids …Read More