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Category Archives: Family
The Simple Life: Eating out by Eating in
This last week, the Norwegian Artist and I celebrated 31 years of marriage with a special dinner for four. What should have cost $170 ran a little under $25. Do I have access to a coupon code that you don’t? … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christian, cooking, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, dinner idea, Economy, Encouragement, Faith, Family, finances, Food, frugal living, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, marriage, money, News, Personal, Relationships, saving money, self-improvement, success, Uncategorized
Tagged anniversary, eating out, marriage, restaurant, save money
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Homeschoolers: Are You Failing Your Children?
Whether you homeschool or not, when you have multiple children, it is all too easy to fall into comparing the “strengths” and “weaknesses” of one child against another. Sadly, over the years, we have seen one child within a family … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Education, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Growth, home, homeschooling, inspirational, instruction, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, religion, school, self-improvement, Uncategorized
Tagged children, discipline, homeschooling, rebellious, religious
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Transparency and Trust in . . . Christianity
Christianity isn’t hocus pocus, you know, but you’d not be faulted for thinking so, given some of the “teachings” out there. One of my favorites, or rather, one that I dislike the most, has to do with negative statements, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, God, honesty, transparency
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Recipe: Good Food
Don’t ask me how food imitation products made it into my breadbox and refrigerator. With various progeny wandering in and out over the month, assorted highly artificialized items sneaked in, many of which I wasn’t even aware until the Norwegian … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, cooking, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Food, frugal living, gardening, health, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, recipe, saving money, self-improvement, success, Uncategorized
Tagged artificial, bread, food, recipe, resolution
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Child of Eden
From Start Your Week with Steve, the free weekly e-mail newsletter of Steve Henderson Fine Art. Viewers and purchasers of Steve’s works frequently want to know the story behind the painting, and for the next several months, Start Your Week with Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Food, gardening, grandparenting, Green, Growth, home, homesteading, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Relationships, success, Uncategorized
Tagged child, Eden, garden, painting, radish
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Recipe: Risotto Resztki (Leftovers)
Risotto is an Italian rice dish, but I’m an American of proud Polish background. What I create will no doubt cause a true Italian, and probably a Pole from the Old Country, to cringe, but oh well. If I stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, cooking, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, dinner idea, diy, Encouragement, Family, finances, Food, frugal living, Green, home, homeschooling, homesteading, inspirational, instruction, Life, Lifestyle, News, recipe, saving money, self-improvement, Uncategorized
Tagged Polish, recipe, rice, risotto
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Hiking the Himalayas without Leaving My Chair
From Start Your Week with Steve, the free weekly e-mail newsletter of Steve Henderson Fine Art Steve Says: As my wife, Carolyn, will readily attest, I rarely give in to a cold. I prefer to work my way through it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged DVD, Himalaya, Michael Palin, travel
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Feeling Sad During the Holiday Season
Whether you say Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah, the fleeting weeks beginning with Thanksgiving and ending at the New Year are a time of celebration, activity, music, joy and . . . sadness. Part of being … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christian, Christmas, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Faith, Family, holiday, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, religion, spirituality, YouTube
Tagged Christianity, Christmas, holiday, season, Thanksgiving
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Recipes: Pumpkin Pancakes and Pumpkin Ice Cream
With Thanksgiving kicking off the holiday season this week, it’s a given that this week’s recipe will involve pumpkin. Lucky you — I originally was going to give you just one recipe — that for Pumpkin Pancakes — but as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christmas, cooking, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, dinner idea, diy, Encouragement, Family, finances, Food, frugal living, holiday, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, recipe, santa, saving money, YouTube
Tagged ice cream, pancakes, pumpkin, recipe, Thanksgiving
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Seeking the Simple Life
Ah, the simple life. So many of us crave this so intensely, it makes our addiction to potato chips look minor. I know one woman who is convinced that the only way she will find the simple life is by … Continue reading
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Tagged escape, island, life, simple, tropical
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