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Supper Suggestion: Tuscan Garlic Chicken

March 25, 2018

If you’re anything like me, finding a simple, real food dinner suggestion is like hitting the jackpot! If I add a new winning recipe to my repertoire each week, I feel like I’m doing a-okay at the whole “feeding my family” thing.

I’m going to set aside Sundays each week to share with you one new recipe my family has tried and loved that week. These are guaranteed to be:

Real food (nothing out of a box)
Real and simple ingredients
Easy to make
Tested and approved by me and my family

Here’s this week’s find:VIEW POST

Our Go-To Healthy Snack: Cookie Bites

February 13, 2018

Cookie Bites: Our Go-To Snack Food

These cookie bites are in constant demand around our house. From the 2-year-old on up to the adults, we don’t like to go long without them. With only FOUR healthy ingredients, I never mind throwing these together! They’re great for school lunches, after-school snacks, class parties, or anytime at all. They’re sweet enough for the kids to think they’re really getting a treat, but in reality, they’re packed with nutrition.

Ingredients

2 1/2 c old-fashioned oats

1 c peanut butter

1/2 c honey

1/2 c chocolate chips (I like to use the mini chocolate chips!)

Depending on which peanut butter you use, they may need a little help sticking together with a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.

Directions

Mix all ingredients together, shape into balls, and you’re done! You can enjoy them right away or refrigerate and enjoy them chilled. We do both. I store them in an air-tight container in the fridge. I’ve read other versions of this recipe that include more ingredients. I adapted this particular recipe based on our nutritional preferences and the ingredients I usually have on hand. You also can add or take away based on your family’s needs! Enjoy!

Books that Built Me: 9 Books to Read ASAP

February 6, 2018

Anyone who knows me well knows I’m an avid reader of non-fiction books. Not biographies or historical stuff but books that make me better. Better at being a wife, mom, Jesus-seeker, friend, person…if I think I’ll be better for reading it, I’m in. I can’t guarantee I won’t give a recommendation of one or more books to read for whatever season of life you’re in. Consider yourself warned. 🙂

I’m often asked about some of my must-read selections, and I’m always happy to share. I’m amazed at the power words possess to actually shape who we are. Depending on what stage of life you’re in will determine which books strike a chord with you!

1. Everybody Always by Bob Goff | Audiobook here

I was completely unsuspecting of the way this book would grab hold of my heart. I laughed, I shed a tear or two, and I begged Mr. Goff not to stop reading the audiobook when I knew it was drawing to an end. I demanded that my family and friends read it, too. I’ve let my kids listen to the audiobook. This book made me think of my life and my faith in a way I hadn’t before. The gist? If we’re going to be a light and make a mark in this world, we’ve got to get over ourselves, love extravagantly, and be unnecessarily kind. This guy has some seriously interesting stories. It made me a better person!

2. Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs | Audiobook here

This book changed me and therefore changed my marriage. It is based on Paul’s words in Ephesians 5:33, “So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Sounds simple enough, right? As it turns out, love isn’t always the husband’s forte, and respect doesn’t always come easily to us wives. Understanding this is incredibly powerful in marriage.

3. Mother and Son: The Respect Effect by Emerson Eggerichs | Audiobook here

Calling all boy-moms! This is by the same author as Love and Respect (the marriage book), but this one specifically addresses the “respect effect” as it pertains to mothers and sons. Our boys are really just little men yearning to be respected. We moms have the loving, nurturing thing down pat, but the respect thing is sometimes lost on us. It’s easy to lose the heart of our boys if we miss this. This is one I’ll read again and again while I’m raising my brood of boys.

4. Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph | Audiobook here

The subtitle of WLW is to Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home. As these are all fervent passions of mine, this has been a book I’ve read over and over and over again. I really want to get these things right. Courtney relays how we can strive to be Proverbs 31 women in each of these areas, and it certainly has helped me make progress (very slow, imperfect progress) in becoming who God wants me to be.

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