Author: Amy
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Free Ground Beef eCookbook
Have you ever wondered what else you can do with ground beef aside from the usual recipes? My friend Lynn, of Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures, has the answer and she has put tons of them together in an easy-to-follow cookbook of delicious ground beef recipes that she wants to share with you… For FREE. Yep, you…
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Family Summer Bible Study Coming Soon
As we launch into summer, I am working on Exploring the Wonders of God’s Creation, which will be our summer study here on MomsToolbox. This will be a study for all ages, and a perfect one for reflecting and also getting even more out of summer travels as well as the slower pace of summer…
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Summer Fun in more than 40 cities…
Looking to beat those boredom blues and have a blast with your kids this summer? Click on over to Mom’s Travel Tales where I’ve listed links to more than 40 bloggers lists of fun (and often frugal or FREE) stuff to do in their hometowns. This is a great resource for staycations and vacation. And…
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Operation Intentional #Kindness: June Missions
This month’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Every time you buy something this month, say “Thank you!” like you mean it to the cashier and smile. Buy a lottery ticket for a stranger. Find someone who has been helpful to you this month in a store, restaurant or other business establishment and tell that…
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United Airlines no longer allows pre-boarding for famililes
I was quite surprised when I read this morning that United will no longer offer pre-boarding for families. Please click over to my family travel site, MomsTravelTales to see what I would suggest as a compromise…
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Proverbs 19: Have wisdom and be patient
Although I haven’t been posting much lately, I have been reading a Proverb a day and thinking about you. I hope that you have been enjoying the reading. Each day of the reading so many things have been popping out and zinging me with encouragement and wisdom. It is my prayer that has been the…
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Proverbs 11–Refresh Others!
Good morning, friends! I am sorry I have been absent for awhile. Life has overwhelmingly full and I have missed you! I’ll try to fill you in on some of it soon but, in the meantime, I had to share what struck me in today’s reading of Proverbs. “A generous man will prosper; he who…
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Operation Intentional #Kindness: May Missions
This month’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Contribute some food you love to a food pantry. Lynn’s post on food donations really hit me where I needed to be jostled, and now I am sure to only give food we love. Bring your neighbor’s trash cans up to the house after the trash service.…
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I’m Reading Proverbs in May… Wanna join me?
This month I plan to read through Proverbs, taking in one chapter each day. Seeing as there are 31 days in May and 31 chapters in Proverbs, I think this is a perfect reading assignment for the month. I have done this a few times before on MomsToolbox, SOAPing through each day. This time, though,…
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He created you to do good stuff: Ephesians 2
Today’s reading is Ephesians 2. Here is what jumped out at me: Scripture: Ephesians 2: 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Observation: He crafted us and set us on course to do positive things, long before we even…
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Please help me battle Multiple Sclerosis this weekend
This weekend I’ll be cycling in my 5th BP MS 150, a two-day, 180-mile ride from Houston to Austin to help raise funds and awareness for the battle against Multiple Sclerosis. Yesterday, as I was finishing up my training, I had to face a lot of wind against me, but the wind I fought in…
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Exploring the Wonders of God’s Creation: New Bible study this summer
Have you ever come across something so beautiful it just took your breath away? … Something that was so undeniably made by God that you just had to stop to take it all in, stare in amazement and wonder how you got to be so fortunate to see it… And then you had to tell…
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Mom & Me camping with my Cub Scouts
Over on MomsTravelTales, my family travel blog, I’m sharing a few thoughts on a Mom & Me Cub Scout camp out earlier this month. I’d love for you to click over and let me know what YOU think. And, by the way… what is camping to you? Tents? Campers? Holiday Inn? Hyatt? Do tell!
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Dinner prep for Coastal Chilean wine tasting
Earlier this week I made my most ambitious meal in years. Take a look at the ingredients: It was well worth all the slicing and dicing. Plus, my darling husband even helped with that part, which made it even better. I made the dinner as part of a blogger wine tasting of coastal Chilean wines.…
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Relying on Him… or me? Galatians 3
If you are reading with me, today we are reading Galatians 3. (Click over to view the rest of the Bible reading schedule for April.) Before I began reading today, I asked God to help me order my day and get the tasks done that need to get done. (I figure He knows what really…