Saturday was Allison’s last morning here before heading to The Wilds to work for the summer.  I found out she’d like a fritatta for breakfast, then planned around that.  I used my new cookbook and found a Garden Frittata and adapted it to the ingredients that I had on hand.  It was very good!  The thing I like about frittatas is that if you only have a few eggs, you can still feed a group of people; unlike frying or scrambling eggs where you need a couple eggs per person.  My brunch menu was:



Ready for the oven

 The recipe called for zucchini and squash, but I didn’t have any, so I just used tomatoes and onions and the cheeses – Feta, Mozzarella and Parmesan.  This takes a while to bake – about 45 minutes, but it whips together in a snap.



Hot and ready to serve

 Breakfast or brunch is a great meal to have guests over.  Much of the work can be done ahead of time.  You could mix up the firttata the night before and have it ready to pop in the oven in the morning.  Roll out your biscuits and place them on the baking sheets.  The only thing for this menu that you would make before the meal would be the grits, because they’re so fast, but even those could be done the night before.  An addition of fresh fruit would round this meal out nicely.



After a hearty breakfast, they’re ready to head to camp!

What did you do to decorate for Memorial Day?  Did you cook or bake anything special for the holiday?

With love,

If you get to go away on vacation this summer, you may find as we did, that that particular week seems to fly by!  I hate to discourage you before you even pack, but vacations don’t last!  **Sigh**

While away on our recent vacation, my husband and I would sit near the pool and read our Bible in the morning.  We were seated near the gate that led out to the beach; therefore, many people walked past us as we sat there with our Bibles and journals open and a pen ready. The response from the passersby was truly interesting. The believers were easy to spot. When they saw our Bible, their look would brighten. Many would step back to make a comment.

One such person was a dear lady probably in her 60’s. She walked up to me, a smile on her face, and asked, “What does the Word say today?”

“The Lord is so good” I said, and then I shared with her the truth that I had just read from the psalms.

Her response to me was – “Oh, as I was just walking along the shoreline and thinking about being here on vacation, the Lord brought to my mind that this time away is how life is. You come here on vacation and enjoy yourself, but then at the end of the week, it’s time to go home. That’s the way it’s going to be for all of us. We’re here now for just a short little while, then one day, it will be time to go home, and we all have to be ready.”

She’s so right. Our time on vacation went so quickly, and was wonderful, but then the time was ended and it was time to pack up and head home. When our life is done here, we are all headed somewhere – heaven or hell. Will you be ready to meet the Lord on that day? Where are you going, Friend? You can know for sure that heaven is your home by trusting Christ as your Savior. (Click here to read how you can know!)  The time is passing quickly – don’t delay!  Heaven will be far better than anything we’ve ever enjoyed on this earth – and it will never end!

See you in church!

With love,

What special touches have you added to your porch or deck?

Happy Summertime!

We dusted the house yesterday; enough grime has accumulated to write in it today.  We mopped the floor Saturday; today we have the Oregon trail down the hall.  We wiped the fingerprints off the windows and appliances after lunch; by bedtime it looks like a fog has descended.  It never ends, does it?  We can work and work to keep things clean at home.

Proverbs 23:5 says,  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?  We try to grasp hold of things that are not lasting.  The verse goes on to say, that  riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Riches fly away.  A clean house is fleeting also.  Beautiful clothes wear out.  A thin body wastes away eventually.  A gorgeous home can be swept away in a moment.  All these things can be gone in a moment.  We need to labor for that which is eternal instead.

Matthew Henry said, “Those that aim at great things fill their hands with business more than they can grasp, so that their life is both a perfect drudgery and a perpetual hurry.  What you have, be a master of it, and not a slave to it.”  It’s okay to have a clean house, but if we are a slave to it, we will be miserable. 

I can drive myself to distraction sometimes with trying to keep everything at home in perfect order.  It won’t happen with people living here!  We must live here.  We should all strive to be masters of our home and good stewards of it, but it can’t be our master.  I’m preaching to myself, here.  It’s more important that I am driven by the things that are eternal.  For, as Solomon said, this cleaning job will take wings and fly away.  Wow.  Instead of being filled with hurry and dread, I can work, then not get flustered when things get dirtied again.  With God’s help, I will strive to master my home, but not a slave to it.  How about you?

With love,