I just did it one day. I called the Addiction Intervention Specialist. lAfter reading Why Don’t They Just Quit: Hope for Families Struggling with Addiction, I just picked up the phone and called Joe Herzanek. I sat on that ordinary day with no big crisis looming and listened to Joe talk truth to me. Joe introduced me in his…
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The Year Addiction Stole Christmas
It all feels like an upside-down fairy tale as I share with you about the year addiction stole Christmas. In a book for children,Beamer’s World, addiction is personified as a “joker” style villain. Not super scary, he is a creepy and sinister looking man that seems to appear everywhere. Addiction feels like this, lurking in…
Five Little Tricks For The Best Gingerbread House Decorating
Run, run, run, running down the side of the gingerbread house! Icing that runs, candy that smears, cookies that break, squeeze the fun out of gingerbread house decorating. Cracked gingerbread cookies still taste yummy but lose the effect. Confronting sticky gingerbread dough to non-hardening frosting frustrates even a seasoned baker. 5 Tips to Produce a…
How to make a Vintage Camper Gingerbread
In 2013 my husband and I focused on restoring our marriage after an almost two-year separation. We chose to restore a vintage camper as a “working together” marriage project. From that sprang the winter of vintage camper gingerbread (need a gift for a Vintage Camper Lover look here). We Need your Vote to Win- Please vote…
How to Make Gingerbread You Want to Eat!
Let’s face it most gingerbread is for looking not eating. If sandwiched next to a chocolate chip cookie the poor gingerbread boys will die of loneliness. How to make Gingerbread you want to eat is a whole different recipe. Building houses and vintage campers with the gingery dough gets my creative juices flowing! But eating…
The Mom Village -Stories of Strength and Courage
I am thankful for the opportunity to participate in The Mom Village Project. As I gift I am offering my chapter for free. If you choose to purchase the book, 100% of the money raised benefits Agape in Action medical clinics in Guatemala. Paula Rollo of Beauty Through Imperfection speared head the project graciously allowing me…
Best Gingerbread Cookie Baking Gifts Under $20
Our family gingerbread cookie baking evolves every year. Scanning Amazon this year several baking tools excited me! A raised cookie rack would certainly clear more counter space, what amazing colors could I create with new food coloring set, and be sure to check out the piping bottles for storing royal icing. Pin this for later, maybe…
How to Find the Best Free Camping
Free camping is abundant! Often called disbursement camping many of our public lands offer camping off the beaten path for free. Defined by the USDA Forest Service as: dispersed camping is the term used for camping anywhere in the National Forest OUTSIDE of a designated campground. Dispersed camping means no services; such as trash removal,…
How to Choose the Best Gingerbread Cookie Frosting
Get the best results from your gingerbread cookie frosting by choosing the right type of frosting. Yep, the type of frosting changes based on your end goals. Who knew? (For the Best Tasting Gingerbread Cookie Recipe Follow this link) Gingerbread Cookie Glue Little hands apply a lot of pressure on gingerbread houses during the decorating…
Why Are Children So Obsessed With Gingerbread Cookies?
Our families obsession with gingerbread cookies started many years ago as the result of a book and class project. In those early years, Run, Run As Fast As You Can, You Can’t Catch Me I’m the Gingerbread Man tickled my sons into fits of laughter. The youngest designed a kind of hide and go seek…