A Weekend to Remember...

The weekend before Thanksgiving, Steve and I went to the Coeur D'Alene Resort for Family Life's "A Weekend To Remember" conference, sponsored by Family Life. This is the second year we have attended. Steve's unit in the Air Force gives free conference and hotel tickets for those who would like to attend.

While some of Family Life's theology is a bit skewed, it was so wonderful to spend a weekend concentrating on nothing but Steve and our marriage. When you have children it is so easy to get wrapped up in nothing but raising them correctly (and in our case, their various issues) and neglecting the most important relationship in the family - that of husband and wife. I believe the same thing happens for men with their career.

I have begun to wonder if much more time was spent cultivating a good marriage relationship in front of the kids, making the marriage top priority (outside of God, of course), whether much of the child training issues wouldn't resolve themselves.

The organization, Family Life, will be sponsoring a video seminar, "The Art of Marriage" in February of 2011. One of our favorite speakers, Voddie Baucham will be featured. We are looking forward to it.

Anyway, I highly recommend this conference - its worth the time, money and effort to get away. If you look at Family Life's website, you can probably find a conference in your location.

Til next time...

Sweet Potato Soup, Spiced biscuits

I had a few requests for my sweet potato soup and spiced biscuits recipe on facebook so here it is - I made up this recipe some time ago because Steve likes sweet potatoes so much. I normally do not like them but I do in this soup.

This is what we do for our family:

Coarsely chop enough sweet potatoes to feed your family (for us this is approximately 10 lbs). Place in crock pot or roaster. Coarsely chop one onion (size again depending on your family). Add to sweet potatoes. Add water or chicken broth to just cover the potatoes. Cook until tender. Puree sweet potato mixture until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook one to two pounds of country or breakfast sausage, add to pureed mixture. Then add approximately one to two teaspoons of nutmeg and one quart of heavy cream. Combine and heat gently until ready to serve.


Spiced biscuits are easy. Take your normal biscuit recipe, quadruple the required sugar amount and add 2-6 teaspoons of apple pie spice. (When we make a batch of 48 biscuits we use 1.5 tablespoons of apple pie spice). For the liquid part of the recipe, combine half beer and half buttermilk. Let rest for about 10 minutes after mixing then form, bake and enjoy...:-)

Steve is home..

Will probably continue few postings for the next several weeks as God has blessed us all with Steve's return home from Afghanistan. We are looking forward to celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary on the 1st of December and also attending Family Life's Weekend to Remember at the CDA resort in a couple of weeks.

Enjoy Fall - its beautiful here!!