When do you begin your Christmas shopping? Do you enjoy finding special gifts for those on your gift list? Do you dread the task? Is gift-giving just one more thing on your stressful holiday to-do list? It brings me great joy to find or create the perfect gift for each individual. I keep my eyes […]
How I wish to quote a line from a worship song this past Sunday, but we’ll go with the gist of it instead. All of us are poor beggars, average Joes and Janes, but when we trust King Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He makes us royalty, promising us an eternal home in His […]
Add Black Spritz Cookies to the list of weird for 2020. Our granddaughters join me to bake and decorate cookies every year. 2020 would be no exception. Except in an effort to be sure we had green dough for the Christmas trees, I added an extra dash of green food color. The result: We have […]
December 23, 2019. Amazing rainbow. Today the granddaughters and I will prepare a birthday cake for Baby Jesus — one of our annual traditions. Yes, I’ve backed up from the previous post. The day began with a series of mishaps. Here’s one: I set the oven, prepared the pan, mixed the cake, and poured it […]
Giggle away! Christmas is over, right?! Found myself today with some unexpected time on my hands. First thought: Let’s post the recipes from the newest volume in the Cinnamah-Brosia collection, The Essence of Humility. Great idea? Not so quick. . . Then I discovered two missing recipes from the Christmas volume: The Essence of Joy! Italian Christmas Bread or Panettone […]
With the birth of a baby, visitors come as admirers, but also (if even secretly) they long for an added bonus – the opportunity to cuddle the new little person for at least a few moments. “When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go […]
My grateful heart extends a very big THANK YOU to Livy Jarmusch at Crown of Beauty Magazine for assembly this amazing blog tour for The Essence of Joy. The intinerary boasts a lineup as varied as the colors in the 64 count crayola box. Recipes, book reviews, devotions, giveaways,* and excerpts from the book. Step […]
What a privilege it was this week to participate in Celebrate Lit’s “Thankful for our Readers” Facebook party. Forty authors came together to thank our readers, host giveaways, and chat about our books and our lives. Several of our guests joined my mailing list. Another BIG THANK YOU!!! Speaking of Facebook parties, you may have […]
Before the holidays find opportunity to put on their best festive attire, pumpkin everything heads to the top of almost everyone’s favorite goodies list. Cinnamah-Brosia shares, “At The Coffee Cottage we join the pumpkin club. Our guests favorite pumpkin fare is Pumpkin Pie Bars. I’ll let you in on a secret – one you’ll probably […]
Advent. The word provides a reminder to live in a state of anticipation, foretaste, expectancy, joy and hope. As October winds down, look around. Holiday decorations appear almost as quickly as Halloween disappears. Where’s the anticipation, the foretaste, the expectancy, the joy and hope in the waiting for Christmas Day to arrive? Most are so […]
