Holiday gifts time is almost here!

Holiday gifts time is almost here!

Holiday gifts time is almost here!

GIFTS??? And wouldn’t you know it, I am out of ideas. So I went searching for gifts under $50 so you wouldn’t have to! I have curated a list of some good holiday gifts to give to your family and friends that won’t 1. break the bank and 2. are pretty healthy over all. FIRST THOUGH… Have you seen the new covers for the Mt. Moriah series? Well, here they are! Book One Book Two And last but not least, book three, my new creation that is coming for your holiday reading pleasure! Now where was I? Oh yeah, holiday

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Write from a place of joy

Write from a place of joy

Next in blog series… MY OPINION ONLY! The questions: Write from a place of joy or from a love of what you read? Both are popular. Today alone I found this type of writer-ly theology being spouted from the screen. I do not disagree with it, but there is something to be said about the “write what you love to read” angle as well. All writers were readers first. That is a given, I think. They might not read in the same language as I do, but for the most part, I believe writers started out their love of the

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Merry Christmas to all my fans and followers. May you and yours have a joyful Noel filled with fun, food, and fantastic good times. We are celebrating big time at the Smith Casa so won’t be posting for a few days. I will be back with the big end of year post where I will be looking back at what I have accomplished in 2016 soon!

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Christmas week-recipes

Christmas week-recipes

Happy Monday-before-Christmas! It’s going to be a busy week for all of us mamas and grandmamas who cook all the goodies for the family get-together that happens at this time. In honor of all of us and hopefully something new and different for some of you, I will be posting up some recipes this week. In fact, these are the ones that I decided NOT to cook/prepare because I had so many already chosen! Christmas is my favorite time of the year and usually I overdo it. But this year, I picked a few recipes and bought the ingredients and

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Four great sites to entertain and educate you

  I haven’t blogged in a few days due to life getting in the way. Sometimes we just have to take care of our family and do those work things. But I haven’t been idle. I have gathered some great sites for you to visit now that Christmas shopping season is here. These might make your gift-giving a little easier. http://www.canopy.co CANOPY is a great site that has awesome DIFFERENT things to look at – and best of all? It is all from Amazon! https://grandst.com/ Grand St is a creative technology site for those techies in your family. I promise

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