Floating restaurant in Thailand My missionary friends Lilli and Rene just got back from Thailand and in honor of the upcoming release of my Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook, entertained Spouse and me with foodie stories for hours. In Bankok, they encountered floating markets on wide canals that contained little shoppes and restaurants. The ...
Stress-Free Cooking
Look what’s hot! Here’s the third video sample of one of the great dishes from my upcoming Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook (releasing Nov 1, 2015). Every recipe requires less than 20 minutes hands-on prep time to help decom-stress your life. You can preorder the cookbook HERE You’re gonna love Cheese-Broccoli Chowder – so ...
Some Day
Fascinating Turkey We were four old friends sitting together in a restaurant catching up over lunch. Judie enthralled us with exotic tales of her trip to Turkey, which she had always said she’d take some day, and finally did. Joy’s fork paused halfway to her mouth and she pensively said, “Some day. I just read ...
Stirred, Not Shaken
Our charred porch “Fire!” I startled awake from a dead sleep last Sunday afternoon, the word we all dread to hear vibrating through my every molecule. “Fire!” I heard it again, this time recognizing Chuck’s strained voice only a decibel below scream level. Sitting up and staring dumbly at my surroundings, I groggily realized I ...
Stress-Free Cooking
I’m sooo excited to share this first short video introducing stress-free cooking recipes from my Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook, releasing online and in bookstores Nov 1. Three additional videos are in production and will be released within the next two months. Rachael Ray I’m not, but I do enjoy creating quicker, easier ways ...
Near Misses
KaBLAM. Whoa. That was close. My nose hairs are standing at attention, my skin is crawling and my teeth are tingling like I just bit into a wad of tin foil. Ever felt like this? Living in the lightning capital of the world (Tampa area), I experience this nasty sensation more often than I’d like. ...
Double Blessing Contest Winners!
Many thanks to everyone who entered the Double Double Blessings Blessings Contest! I was very moved by the double blessings from Papa God that you so graciously shared with me and may possibly include some of them in the Too Blessed to be Stressed Daily Devotional I’m now writing (set to release in 2017). If ...
Winner Dinner!
We’re all too blessed to be stressed! So last night was our Winner Dinner and we had an absolute blast! Congrats to grand prize winner Donna and her husband Ish (on far left in photo holding 3-week-old Baby Boy; I’m in the middle, and my daughter and son-in-law are on the right holding 5-week-old Baby ...
Funny on the Inside
A long lost childhood friend e-mailed me this week. A gal who lived next door for a handful of my pre-teen years. We bummed around together a lot on hot summer days, playing board games, running barefoot, and dipping our toes in the pond behind her house. My best memories of Ginny involve scarfing a ...
New Double Blessing Contest!
Win one of six 2016 Planners! Okay, BBFF’s (Best Blog Friends Forever), I’ve heard from many of you asking for my new planner, so it is! In honor of our recent double family baby blessing, I’m giving away SIX copies of my newest literary Baby Blessing – the brand new Too Blessed to be Stressed ...