Aroma Therapy = Baking Bread

I love the smell of baking bread!  It beats the smell of our neighbor’s hogs any day. Today I decided to add a little twist to baking bread, and that was to fill bread with pieces of beef (left-overs) and some cheese, making a stuffed sandwich roll. (I guess you could say they are like hot pockets, but really, there is NO comparison to the cardboard things called “Hot Pockets” found in the freezer section of your local grocery store.)  I divided the dough into appropriate portions for individual-sized sandwich rolls.  One by one I rolled out a piece of …

Sew What?

Lately I have been in the mood to sew.  I’ve got quite an assortment of material that I’ve had build up, including some that has been given to me, and so I’ve decided to try and shrink my piles!

Here are a couple of samples of this week’s work: I plan to give these to some children in the congregation here. Here is a baby quilt I made last month. Some of it includes some quilting squares that I received from my Grandmother, which she had cut out years ago. I’m quite sure she never would have imagined that those little pieces …

Midmom and Doula

I’ve been rather dull with blogs lately.  It’s not that there hasn’t been anything going on, that’s for sure!  It’s just that sometimes I’m not sure what I want to put out there. 

I know that some of you have been aware that the Samfords, fellow missionaries, were expecting child number four.  Since it was not practical for them to return to the States to deliver, and the nearest decent hospital was 7-8 hours away, they opted to do a home birth.  Lots of people might initially think that’s the craziest idea – home birth? in Africa? If you were …