Easy French Dip

While you’re outside enjoying the sunshine and the long days of summer, don’t forget about dinner! Easily whip up this delicious meal in a snap!  These summer sandwiches are made with three easy ingredients, and I promise your whole family will beg for seconds!     Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.  Colossians 1:10 ESV Can you share your own easy summer recipe? In Christ, Tara Dovenbarger

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You Are the Queen of Your Castle

My husband and I bought our house before we had kids, so at first our home was our baby. We lovingly stripped wallpaper and painted ceilings, refinished floors and installed new appliances. Then we scrubbed and vacuumed the place corner to corner every weekend. A few years later, I held a toilet brush in one arm and a newborn in the other. Picture my toddler capsizing a laundry basket filled with burp rags and Dora pajamas, jumping in the pile, then spilling milk on the carpet just minutes after I’d scrubbed the stain from the day before. With children at …

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Top Gadgets To Make Mom’s Life Easier in 2016!

Must-have gadgets to make Momma’s life so much easier in 2016! Click To Tweet Do you loathe spending time on housekeeping? Are you ready to shave hours off your daily chores? Check out these gadgets which are sure to make your busy life more manageable in 2016! Roomba  This is my personal favorite. Touch a button–and walaaaaa—the floor is clean. This robotic vacuum cleans up after the kids and pets so you don’t have to! It easily glides from wood floor to carpet, and docks onto the charging base all on its own! Because this vacuum works so hard, you will …

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A simple, easy meal from scratch – caprese pasta, roasted brussel sprouts and breadsticks

The air had been heavy with rain all morning before it finally drenched our home and yard. It didn’t stop the kids from wanting to go out and play, who could blame them? The cool rain held promises of summer holding out just a little bit longer, and so we did just that….summer things. I let the dough rise in the kitchen while I captured mom moments. You know…the moments of a home filled with little ones, a house creaking and groaning under the weight of so many toys, millions of loads of laundry, and kids slamming the front door.  …

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Unballing Socks for Jesus

  Summer is almost over and school will be starting soon. Moms, you are about to be thrown back into that hurried pace of car pools, lunch making, and after school activities. That means all those household chores that were just mildly annoying during the summer months are going to return to the level of fingernails on the chalkboard of your mind. My least favorite household chore is “unballing” balled-up, dirty, stinky gym socks before throwing them into the washing machine. “Sock balls” come in several varieties: Simple sock ball – These ankle-height socks are sweaty and perhaps tinged with …

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Are You Kidding? 4 Organization Tips to Keep You Sane

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, PEACE, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control…” Galatians 5:22-23. Lauren, my daughter, looked across the kitchen as I unloaded the dishwasher one morning. Instead of putting the dishes in the cabinets, I set them on the table for dinner. “Are you kidding?” she laughed. “Mom, you really do things ahead of time.” For a few months several years ago, Lauren, her husband, and two young boys stayed with us while they house shopped. During that time, Lauren got a bird’s eye view of the organization tips that kept me sane when she and …

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Smart Cinnamon Roll-Ups for Your Scholar

Whether launching kiddos off to school or taking a break from the homeschool table, these cinnamon roll-ups are a smart way to pep up your scholar! Allow your kids to whip-up these super easy, warm and gooey breakfast treats! Click To Tweet     How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!  Psalm 32:1-2 NASB We love hearing from you! What is your favorite school recipe? In Him, Tara Dovenbarger

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Overnight Oatmeal Casserole (Gluten Free)

Moms around the world, suit up–it’s time. Moms around the world, suit up–it’s time. School starts & we’ve got help! Click To Tweet School is starting. While some of you may be jumping for joy, many of you may be bawling because you, me–we STRUGGLE with routines, baking, and getting every child out the door on time. Either way, I have a sure to please recipe that is not only healthy but a great way to start your day tomorrow. It is a gluten free baked oatmeal recipe. You have the option of putting it all together early in the morning or prepping …

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Taking Down the Hindrances to Hospitality

As a newlywed, there were many obstacles that should have in all propriety and dignity (said tongue-in-cheek) kept us from hosting people in our home. We lived in a small apartment. We had little in provisions, financially. We didn’t have fancy napkins or table settings. Maybe it is a personality thing, but I plunged in and invited people anyway. We made lasting memories, not because we had a perfect place or perfect food, but because we had welcoming hearts to friends, new and old. Then something happened about five years into marriage. Someone told me that I needed to have certain …

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What is Hospitality?

What is hospitality? It’s not what we know it to be today. The origin of hospitality. To the ancient Greeks and Romans, hospitality was actually one’s sacred duty. They were obliged to obey the Sacred Law of Hospitality, which meant offering bread, water, lodging, and protection to any traveler who came to their door, treating him or her as a guest. The guest was allowed to stay as long as he or she liked. In those days, bread was thinner and crispier than our bread today, which brought about the term “breaking bread.” It signified sharing fellowship at a meal, …

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