Our Beautiful Nest: And smell like Christmas

Lovely Quotes

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"

~Luke 17:10

Friend, what is your "best thing"? No doubt it is something which has cost you. When we offer our best, it always takes a bite out of something we hold dear. So always offer to God your best. And when you do, you will be happy about it because it is a true gift of love.

~Joni Eareckson Tada on Joni and Friends: Diamonds in the Dust

God wants us to be obsessively and compulsively concerned with the needs and wants of other people.

~Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Diligence is discipline with excellence over time.

~Dave Ramsey

"Come into my kitchen and chat with me while I prepare a pot of tea."

~borrowed from PatchworkPottery.

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"Once you get the dust of Africa on your feet, you can never get it off"

~Unknown

And smell like Christmas

Cris

In honor of taking down my Christmas tree tonight, I am posting this post since it didn't get posted when it was supposed to, before Christmas.

We had a Cousin Cookie baking day! This is a family tradition where each of us makes different batch of cookies all at the same time. There's pans coming in and out of the oven and cookies are being eaten up almost as fast as they are made.