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Baking Mama’s banana bread is one of those things I do when I want to take care of people. With finals week coming up, I spent an entire day in the kitchen — making mini loaves, muffins with an icing drizzle, and putting together about 15 care packages for the college students in our congregation….
Pizza Friday at our house started the way most good traditions do — with me, exhausted, staring at the fridge on a Friday night and deciding that the kitchen was officially closed. Even mamas who love to cook need a nope-not-tonight button. So I pressed it. We ordered from Papa John’s, I put on something…
Thursday nights at our house are my favorite kind of chaos. That is when my college girls come home and bring their friends with them, and my job is to put a big, warm, cozy creamy pasta dinner on the table for a full house. This week I made two family favorites side by side…
This is Hannah’s adoption story — the story of the little girl who made me a mama after a decade of waiting. She is my oldest, my first, the one who changed every single thing about our lives the day she came home. I have been wanting to tell this story for a long time,…
Free gift in this week’s newsletter — and I have to tell you, I am so excited about this one. My husband Jason took my shower planning guide — the one I have been using for years to make sure all my showers go smoothly — and turned it into a beautiful, printable PDF. The…
This Publix grocery haul was long overdue. I was completely out of fresh everything, y’all — and when you’re feeding a family of seven, “completely out of fresh everything” is basically a five-alarm situation. Time to make a Publix run. Come with me. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from…
Three and a half million views, y’all. I have to say that again because I still cannot believe it. Three. And a half. Million. When I first wrote this post it said one million, and I thought that was as big as this thing was ever going to get. I have never been the popular…
Toast with the Most started with a fresh loaf of Pearl’s sourdough and a refrigerator full of toppings — and it turned into one of the most fun dinners we’ve had in a long time. I had just baked a couple of gorgeous sandwich loaves from Pearl’s prettiest bake yet, and I could not let…
Friday night dinner at our house is something I look forward to all week. Instead of loading seven people into the car and spending a fortune going out, we made it special right here at home — burgers on the grill, oven fries seasoned perfectly, and fresh corn on the cob. My son Jonathan, who…
POV: Why do I always sleep like this — if you have a tabby cat, you already know. Dustin does this every single time. Doesn’t matter if it’s a basket on the kitchen table, the arm of the couch, or a little tray on a chair with a bow tie on. He finds his spot,…
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