Don’t forget to delegate!

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Outline For Planning A Party

Aunt Barbara’s Mexican Wedding Cakes. See recipe here.

These are light but taste similar to shortbread

Dipped Pretzel Sticks

These are easy for even the smallest child.

Super easy and super good, creamy fudge. See recipe here.

Anne

Anne

Peanut Butter Cookies With Kisses. See recipe here.

Peanut Butter Cookies With Kisses

We also made:

• Molasses Cookies (See recipe here)
• Peppermint Bark (See recipe here)
• Martha Washington’s Bon Bon’s (See recipe here)

All the cookies laid out for the neighbors

After the plates were wrapped, we drove around town caroling and handing out these lovelies to our dear friends and neighbors. We had a couple neighbors gone, so those will probably be distributed tonight.

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Baking Day!

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Weekly Round Up In Photos

Hebrews 3:12-14 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end.

1 Thessalonians 5:11-15 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction, and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another. We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.

Fingerprints for THE CHURCH: Acts 2:42- They were:

• continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching
• and to fellowship
• to the breaking of bread
• and to prayer

Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

The following scripture expresses evangelism:

Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

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Gathering of the Saints…. sweet fellowship

An evening storm

Jayden

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A Few Photos From This Past Week

Since I have been away, we’ve been picking chokecherries and canning syrup, freezing corn, shipping books, taking kids to and from work, celebrating our Abigail’s first birthday (!), dealing with attorneys, visiting a couple sick friends in hospitals, hauling water (remind me to share sometime about hauling water), hauling wood, making trips to the post office, paying bills, vending at the farmer’s market, etc., etc., etc.

I still have to finish freezing the corn and carrots and do more chokecherry syrup. YUM!

We are going to be entertaining our next door neighbors tomorrow afternoon.  They are new neighbors on their second marriage.  She is from England and has a beautiful accent.  She flew over to England to pick up her teenage daughter and a friend and brought them back here to stay for 5 weeks (this is the length of their summer break).  Then she will be accompanying them back to England.  The teenage girls brought us a box of “fudge” from England.  They came up on horseback, to the little ones’ delight.  Their accents were so thick, it was nearly impossible to understand them.  As Anne stood at the house doorway, she noted they sounded as thought they were speaking another language.

So tomorrow, if everyone is well, we will have them for lunch.  They told us that it would be very delightful.

For this morning, though, I am trying to enjoy my coffee and do some catching up.  This included passing through my blog and sharing only a glimpse of life at our home.  Busy as always.  I will try to get back another time to share about Abby’s doctor appointment and various other sundries…oh yes..and share our hauling water photos.

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Too Busy To Blog