After a hiatus of almost three years—hello! How are you??

One of my plans for 2025 is to post a blog here once a month, maybe a scattering of homemaking, cooking, raising children, general happenings, and what have you. We’ll see! How I have missed posting and sharing here.

I’ve updated my bio and about the blog page, to reflect where I am in life now. I’ll let you hop over to those pages to catch up, but I do have to say… I’m a Grammy now! Oh the changes three years can bring!

A Meal We Love ~ Chicken Pot Pie

The main thing with this recipe is the filling. Feel free to use any cooked chicken/canned chicken, any assortment of veggies, and feel free to use a frozen pie crust. It’s the filling that makes all the difference. We always eat it with a salad.

It’s a fun chance to use the pie dishes and I always make two. With five kids still at home, we will have some leftovers the next day.

Here’s the recipe we use!

Homemaking: Brighten up a little corner
When your homemaking needs a little boost, it can help to choose a little project, something doable, something that will have visible/tangible results. Break it down into steps if needed, over a couple days, in whatever spare minutes you have.

I love plants. Now that we have moved to “the farm,” I am fitting things into smaller places. (Less house, more home, which I truly love.) I didn’t have anywhere to put any houseplants, especially near a window.

When I was given a “dish garden” recently, left from a memorial service, I thought, “These pretty plants need to be potted! But where will I put them?” Then, when thrifting with the family in SC while visiting our grandbaby, I found a sweet little hanging rack. Katie and I discussed it. Is this a wine rack? I guess so. But it would be perfect for plants! And then I remembered the dish garden, and I had a vision of the rack hanging over my kitchen sink as a plant rack.

A little planning and figuring out, and a 16 year-old-boy to facilitate, and here we are.

I hope they like it up there. I definitely like having them there. I hope they survive and maybe even thrive. Maybe the moisture and warmth of the ceiling in this kitchen area will remind them of a greenhouse.

That’s what I love about homemaking. The home is fully yours (more or less), as the woman of the home, to do with what you will and what seems right to you. It’s your domain and no place on earth will be exactly like it.

Pour some love into your home; brighten up a little corner. The joy will spill over to other areas. Build some positive momentum!

Help for Dry Hair
I’ve been fighting dry, lifeless hair for quite some time. I found something that really helps! It is this product from Wal Mart. When a friend mentioned that I should try hair oil, I was skeptical, thinking any kind of oil would make my hair greasy. But this doesn’t! I use it mainly on the ends of my hair and it does help with the dry/frizzy/limp hair problem. If you recommend a certain oil or other product, leave it in the comments!

Our Podcast
I wanted to tell you about our podcast–one of the many things Steve and I have teamed up on over the years. The BC Messenger podcast is about Bible/science research, flowing out of my father’s many years of work at the interface of science and the Bible. Steve and I are both employed part-time by my parents’ ministry, and part of the work we do includes this podcast. We just published episode 30!

A Note of Encouragement
Ever feel confused? Unsure of how God is leading? Wondering if your God-given calling is going to crush you and feeling like you need light, understanding, confidence?

Who among you fears the Lord
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
    and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
    and rely on his God.

Isaiah 50:10

Keep trusting through the dark times. Rely on your God. He may be testing you and taking you deeper, but He has not changed. 💜