A word of advice here. Don’t just give that old can of lima beans no one really likes anyway. First think of practical needs. Items always needed at food pantries include: *Shelf stable proteins — Canned tuna or salmon, Canned chicken or other meats, Canned beans, Dried beans, Canned soups and stews, Peanut butter, Nuts, Canned chili, Trail mix * Pantry staples such as RiceContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Non-Perishable Food Donations**”
Category Archives: Holidays
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Think Good Thoughts
We create our reality with our thoughts, so make them good ones. You have to work at this folks, but it is well worth the effort. Remember it’s not what happens to us, it’s how we think about and react to it that matters. We make our world heaven or hell through our thoughts. Continue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Think Good Thoughts”
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Make and Send Holiday Cards
I love to get cards, but when someone makes a card or adds an extra touch to a purchased card, I feel special. If you usually buy cards this year try something different. Create your own cards. This is a great project to get the kids involved. Look online for ideas of handmade cards. SendContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Make and Send Holiday Cards”
This Little Light of Mine…
I’m going to let it shine. But shining our light in the world can be difficult, especially during the often frantic holiday season, can’t it? Could you use a few ideas for fun and easy ways to let your light shine during the holidays? Well, I’ve got them. From now until the end of DecemberContinue reading “This Little Light of Mine…”
A Healthier Holiday Meal That Still Tastes Good
As the holidays approach many of us will start planning holiday meals. If one of your holiday traditions is spending three days in a “food coma” from overindulging stop and think, is it really worth it? Is it really enough fun, to make yourself sick over? This year I would like to offer a fewContinue reading “A Healthier Holiday Meal That Still Tastes Good”
Celebrating International Fairy Day
International Fairy Day is celebrated today, during the week of Midsummer when the veil between our world and the fairy world is lifted. So create a fairy house, look for fairies and fairy doors in trees, dust off your fairy wings, wear a flower crown and eat a little fairy bread (white bread with butterContinue reading “Celebrating International Fairy Day”
It’s a Salad Celebration!
May is National Salad Month, but I think a nice fresh garden salad makes any meal a celebration. When you think of a garden salad, or green salad what comes to mind? A bowl of iceberg lettuce with maybe a little purple cabbage or grated carrot mixed in and one slice of tomato on theContinue reading “It’s a Salad Celebration!”
Earth Day: Our Dependence on our Mother
Today is Earth Day. This is a sad day for me as I see the arrogance and controlling nature of human kind destroying our planet at an alarming rate. Even in our quiet little wooded lakeside community we live with people who want the trees cut down and the wildlife killed or relocated. As much as peopleContinue reading “Earth Day: Our Dependence on our Mother”
Passover Begins Today at Sunset
Wishes for a Blessed Passover to our Jewish friends.
A Vintage Christmas
When we lived in Omaha part of our holiday celebration was to visit the large gingerbread house display at the Mormon Trail Center. Since moving to the lake we have enjoyed the yearly Christmas on Main Street at Har-ber Village Musem. Local businesses and civic groups decorate selected buildings in the Main Street section ofContinue reading “A Vintage Christmas”
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