by Emily Wierenga | Oct 18, 2013 | children, cooking, family, home, house, Martha Stewart, mother-guilt, motherhood, pinning, Pinterest
The cookie jar is empty.The laundry, piled six loads high on the dryer and the boys won’t sit through homeschool. I didn’t sleep well last night and I haven’t had my coffee and all I can think about is needing to make those cookies. Because... by Emily Wierenga | May 3, 2013 | children, Christ, cooking, dreams, family, marriage, meals, motherhood, servanthood, suppertime
You know the scenario.It’s five o’clock. Your husband is supposed to be home but he isn’t and you need a glass of wine but it isn’t evening yet so you let the kids pull all of the pots and pans out of the drawers and go “shopping”... by Emily Wierenga | May 1, 2013 | book giveaway, bread and wine, cooking, homemade meals, kitchen, making love, prodigal magazine, shauna niequist
Growing up, we ate Saturday Stew.It was a conglomeration of all of the week’s leftovers in one pot, because we lived under the poverty line, and my parents hated waste.So if we didn’t finish our supper, the week before, it would go into the pot and we dreaded... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 10, 2012 | advice, cooking, disorder, eating, food, gardening, health, how-to, intuitive eating, nutrition, tips
i know what you’re thinking… who feeds their kid cheesies? on the bed? on white sheets? and cupcakes? at bedtime, really? i do. i allow my kids to eat “junk” food sometimes, because i never want food to rule my life like it once did. i never...