Author Archives: Ann Kirsten

How is it July already? I think I blinked and missed Spring somehow. In some ways it feels like I planted my garden yesterday, yet my radishes have all been harvested and eaten. Most of my poppies hav...

To me, watermelon is synonymous with summer. Although we don't live in the south and it's hard to grow watermelons here in our rainy climate, nothing beats cold watermelon on a hot summer day. Waterme...

The summers of my youth were different from the summers of today. There were reasons for that, of course. For one thing, we only had three television channels and all they played during the weekdays w...

Our family has had quite a year. Not only was my husband in a horrible accident, but each one of our adult kids and their families have gone through major life changes and some very hard issues. So, w...

I felt like doing something creative this week, so I decided to stitch a lavender sachet with a fall theme to add to my collection. As I went through my sewing box in search of material and floss, I c...

Father's Day is almost here! I don't know about the dads in your family, but my husband and sons-in-law love to barbecue and smoke meat. These cupcakes are a perfect addition to their Father's Day cel...

Did you know that bees and honey are mentioned over sixty times in the Bible? Bees are used to represent God's blessings, God's love, His strength, His wisdom, things of great worth and even reference...

The other day I caught myself hanging my clothes up inside out. Instead of fixing it, I defiantly kept hanging them wrong-side-out. Take that, clean laundry! I was so wiped out from illness and life i...

We joke that our house is located in a wind tunnel. We have wind when others in our town are enjoying a wind-free day. And when a storm does hit the area, we are always hit the hardest. "Suddenly a so...

The other day my daughter yelled, I don't like May! When I asked her why, she showed me her calendar. Every day in May was filled with things she had to do. There were sports games almost every night ...