on Grilled Red Potatoes {a Gooseberry Patch recipe!}
I love my wife’s friends in the computer. You bring her joy, encourage her, give her space to write with a real and sometimes raw freedom, and become her friends outside the computer too. She also gets opportunities to partner with awesome organizations and...
on Jucy Lucy’s… or Juicy Lucy’s? {a Gooseberry Patch recipe}
There’s a bit of a war going on here in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. The rivalry has been aired on TV, radio, and plays out every day in the hearts of burger loving Minnesotans. There are two restaurants that claim to be the birthplace of the one of the best...on Advent calendars – a guest post by…
… Husby! =) He wrote this for our monthly feature on the Vibrant Faith @ Home blog, and I loved it. So I’m sharing a bit of it with you here. His words were a balm for me, as this month I’ve wanted nothing more than to cancel life and steep in Advent...on Five Minute Friday: story
Linking up again with Five Minute Friday at the lovely Lisa-Jo Baker‘s.The rules: write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.Hop over to her place to find out the full scoop behind FMF, and to visit other posts that were freely written in...on secrets {but really, the lack thereof}
Husby and I really don’t have secrets. We practice simple honesty – our concept of saying the hard things, the scary things, the things that really matter, out loud. 5 years of marriage, 2 years of dating/engagement, and knowing him for over 7 years before...on our Christmas card
From our family to yours, we hope you’ve had atruly Merry Christmas! We love you. Thank you for being a part of our life. We’re grateful and humbled by your reading of my words. Blessings upon blessings to you, friends. A very merry indeed! – Anna,...on what I could tell you
I could tell you about The Boy’s 9-month doctor visit yesterday, which was only thought-provoking in that I thought we brought him in for his 3-day check last week. He’s lost weight in the last three months, due to his ridiculously busy and insanely active...on overload
I’m here. I’m fine. Well, I’m exhausted and nursing a sick husband back to health and going on five hours of sleep total for the last two days and work is piling up around me and so are the dishes but I have the cutest baby ever, so I just breathe...on Hope for the Weary {new} Mom: chapter 1
**edited to add: This week, June 12-18, I am hosting an online book/Bible study on Hope for the Weary Mom – I’ll be posting from one chapter each day from the point of view of the new mom. If that’s not the group for you, click here to find another...on our fifth anniversary
We celebrated quietly, with grandma babysitting we slipped out to a bookstore, perusing the shelves then coming together for a piece of cheesecake. We laughed throughout the day as we remembered what we were doing at that very time on that very day 5 years earlier:...Meet Anna
Anna E. Rendell: Author, latte lover. Content Marketing Manager at (in)courage by DaySpring. Wife of Jared and mom of four littles. Telling real stories from real life, and encouraging you to find the extra in your ordinary.
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