• Christian Life - Five Minute Friday - Journal

    Coffee and Sweat Pants

    It’s supposed to be Foto Friday or Five Minute Friday, but it’s just going to be Becky’s Ramblings Friday. Is that ok? It’s been a busy week in our house, with our Christmas Musical for church this weekend. The girls are dancing and I’m acting. And today – nothing but…

  • Christian Life - Five Minute Friday - The Bible

    I Wonder: Why Her?

    Five Minute Friday Five minutes. No Edits. Just writing.  The word is: Wonder GO Wonder… Cleaning up my kitchen, putting breakfast dishes away, washing the pan, scraping off the remaining eggs…  And the Christmas music is playing. Amy Grant’s melody… “Do you wonder as you watch my face if a…

  • Five Minute Friday - Parenting

    When my little man says “stay”

    Five Minute Friday The Word: STAY A weekly challenge by Lisa-Jo Baker. We all write about 1 word for five minutes. Unedited. Just thoughts. Ready? GO Hectic. Start the dishwasher. Put out a clean towel. Squeeze the toothpaste and brush all of his little teeth. He giggles. Swish and spit.…

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    Listening for the Quiet

    Five Minute Friday The Word: QUIET A weekly challenge by Lisa-Jo Baker. We all write about 1 word for five minutes. Unedited. Just thoughts. Ready? GO In order to write about the word “quiet,” I had to first go into my room and lock my bedroom door, warning the kids…

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    Thinking of My Roots

    Five Minute Friday A weekly challenge by Lisa-Jo Baker. We all write about 1 word for five minutes. Unedited. Just thoughts. Ready? GO Roots I’m reading a great book by Francine Rivers called Marta’s Legacy, about a woman in the early 1900s who comes over from Switzerland, and then it…

  • Five Minute Friday

    Five Minute Friday: Losing My Voice

    Voice (Five Minute Friday: Unscripted. Unedited. Real.) Growing up, I’d lose my voice to Laryngitis multiple times a year. Though I have mostly gotten a handle on my allergies, I got laryngitis as recently as this spring while my family was in Disney World. For someone who talks a lot…

  • Five Minute Friday

    Five Minute Friday: Connect

    Five Minute Friday Lisa Jo Baker has started 5 Minute Fridays, where friends each write for 5 minutes on the same word. No editing. No pressure. Just writing. It sounded fun, so I’m going to try it, along with my Foto Friday post. Thankfully, I’m a pretty fast typer. 🙂…