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Fantastic Friday: Mom’s Valentine’s Day Wish
This week marks the beginning of a new Gravel Road feature called Fantastic Friday. Each Friday a fantastic blog post from the past will be given an encore airing. I hope you enjoy what you read as much as I enjoy thumbing through the archives and choosing them. With...
Dairy-Free Biscuits
Biscuits are a cold weather favorite at our house. For the past few years, I've experimented with my old biscuit recipe, substituting different ingredients for the butter and milk to make them dairy-free. The experiments have gotten mighty close to perfection, but...
Top Ten Ways to Spend a Winter Day Off
10. Sleep in. 9. Ignore your rising frustration while trying to read the cell phone bill by going shopping. 8. Jump puddles on sidewalks and in parking lots while shopping on a sunny, 50 degree Saturday. 7. Take a shopping break to pick up some audiobooks at the...
Every Child Welcome Will Be Here Soon!
Do you remember a blog announcement way back in July of 2013 about Every Child Welcome, the book Katie Wetherbee and I were writing about special needs ministry? The one about Kregel Publications offering us a contract? Well, we are happy to announce that Kregel is...
Different Dream Vlog Series: The Shirt Off Her Back
Another January Friday has arrived, so we're serving up a new episode in the Different Dream vlog series for parents of kids with special needs over at Gravel Road's sister website. Today's devotional relates a favorite story from the weeks our son spent in NICU back...
Italian Wedding Soup
This recipe for Italian wedding soup comes from my sister and brother-in-law. They served it during our Thanksgiving stay with them. The Man of Steel raved about it and couldn't get enough of it. So our hosts graciously pointed me to the recipe which they found at...