Crusts and Crumbs: April 2010

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

" 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, ' Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.' " Jeremiah 29:11

Friday, April 2, 2010

http://www.pillsbury.com/Recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=13809

Check out this recipe. Seriously. It’s delicious, healthy, easy, and different! It sounds a little strange, jam on a ham sandwich, but keep an open mind...my husband didn't think he would like the jam, but he loved it. I didn’t change much, (except use strawberry instead of raspberry jam and add an extra slice of cheese to the first layer…oh, and instead of making it into a loaf, I just used the crescent triangles to make individual sandwiches) so I will just reference you to the site. But trust me, you don’t want to miss it.

Change.

Understand, I don’t intend to stop posting recipes completely. I still love cooking, and sharing that love with others. But I’ve also always enjoyed writing, and have recently rediscovered that dusty love. I feel like digging it out of the attic, and giving it a bit of a polish. I’ve been inspired by other bloggers, by their
daily grit and grind that they share with the world. By their faith and tenacity as they plod through life. I feel like taking advantage of the flexibility of a blog, and writing what I feel like, when I feel like it. The crusts and the crumbs of my life. A recipe today, a remodel post tomorrow, a reflection on parenting next week. I face a wide open space, waiting to be
filled with whatever I desire. And I like that challenge.

Me.

Much of my writing will never even see the light. It will never make it past the parchment of my mind, where it is scribbled in invisible ink for me alone. But some of it does. That bit is what is written here. Humbly posted for the world to see, if it cares, or to ignore if it doesn’t.
I’m not a spotlight kind of girl. I’m shy, and quiet, and a bit reserved. Oh, I like a good razzing between friends, and a spirited board game with the best of them. I love hosting friends and family and cherishing moments together.
But at my soul, in my heart of hearts, I’m a quiet evening with my man, fire blazing, hands wrapped around a warm cup of tea kind of girl. That’s when I’m most blissful.
So, I don’t write for a spotlight, imagined or otherwise. I don’t write for others. I write for me. If not a single person (besides my soul mate-we’re bonded as one, so he counts as me) reads this blog, I’d be just as satisfied in writing it as if a thousand had read it.Which is good, because a thousand people definitely
won’t be reading this. No, I write because there is an itch in my soul. An urge, somewhere deep inside of my being, to craft my thoughts into words and inscribe them, preserve them, and make meaning from them. It brings me peace to take the whirling dervish in my mind and put him to rest.

Crusts and Crumbs

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

hope.

" 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, ' Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.' " Jeremiah 29:11

Friday, April 2, 2010

A Different Lunch