Category: For the Love of Family

Food, For the Love of Family, Recipes

Peach Butter

            Originally printed in the Denver Post, I have been making peach butter for 20+ years. A favorite gift for family and friends, it has become an annual tradition when the Colorado peaches are the ripest, usually mid-August to mid-September. Many times, I was going to begin a peach butter business, but the logistics were more than I wanted to take on. Besides, I want to keep the tradition of spending a late summer Saturday making peach butter without the headaches of marketing! As many have requested, here is the original recipe: PEACH BUTTER 8 […]

Finances, Food, For the Love of Family

No Check-Out Required

Today, in Seattle, the Amazon Go store will open its doors. This newest endeavor in shopping experiences is highly technical, easy and convenient. You enter the store, pick up what you need, and exit, without interacting with the cash register or entering the checkout line. It sounds intriguing. It sounds different. It sounds impossible. Yet, like many other things in our lives today, technology makes almost anything possible and is changing how we live, and especially how we shop. There are many opinions, discussions, debates about Amazon Go. Yet, regardless whether we agree or disagree with the concept of Amazon […]

Finances, For the Love of Family

Know Your Flocks, Care for your Herds or maybe…Just care for your car, washing machine,…..

It couldn’t have come at a better time. I was feeling stuck – wanted to move on, yet it was a risky proposition – especially for a low-risk taker and a conservative-minded financial coach. Should I take a risk? Throw all good sense to the wind and do what I wanted? I was living in my unknown world – not paying attention to my ‘flocks’. And from where I stood, not knowing let me believe I could and should do anything I wanted to be ‘unstuck’. Then I read this verse, and was gently reminded, that I need to take […]

Family, For the Love of Family

Mary, a Mom like Us

The story of Mary – so simple, so complex, so comforting. Mary is a mother, like so many of my readers. A mother whose heart endured a lot. Mary is just like us, yet not like us. She is the mother to our Savior, who is also her Lord. In his gospel writings, Luke offers some beautiful insights into Mary’s personal journey as a mom. An emotional journey not unlike our journeys today. In the darkness of the night, outside of Bethlehem, the shepherds were suddenly and gloriously notified of Jesus birth. Although they were frightened, they heeded the words […]

Family, For the Love of Family

Organizing Your Family. My Calendar Recommendation

A friend of mine, a mother of three small ones, posted the following question on Facebook: Mom friends…how do you stay organized? Between my husband and I and our work commitments, and the 3 kiddos school/preschool events and due dates, activities, appointments, etc. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed! I currently use outlook for work and a paper planner/calendar for home (yes, I like to write things down, including my to do list), but I am afraid I am going to double-book/overlook things. What works for you? I loved reading the replies from young moms, each wanting to offer was has […]