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Granny

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on the everlasting Arms...


Who is Granny?

I'm the incredibly blessed mother of 9, "Granny" to 13, and wife of "The Papa," the knight-in-shining-armor whose loving support has made it possible for me to stay home and give my life to mothering, homemaking, and 24 years of homeschooling. Life at Granny's House is full of laughter, friendship, books, music, lively debate, writing, and good things to eat. My days are made even more meaningful by coming alongside other moms, giving them the support and encouragement that I lacked as a young mother and helping them to network with each other in ways that strengthen homes and families. A few times a year I board a plane to visit my "away" kids, to attend the birth of a grandchild, or to enjoy some lazy days with my best friend, but I always love coming back to...Granny's House.

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On Granny's Calendar
  • July 9 -- Molly is 11!
  • July 16 -- Carrie is 5!
  • July 17 -- Uncle Danny's birthday
  • July 20 -- Granny and The Papa's 36th anniversary
  • July 23 -- Aubrey and Dirk's 15th anniversary



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    Granny Cares
  • Care Calendar
  • Agape Pregnancy Help Center San Antonio
  • World Vision

  • The WeatherPixie

    Around the house...
  • Family Grandstand
  • Better Together, Aubrey
  • Happy to be So, Kristen
  • The Welty House, Annie
  • Less like scars..., CJ
  • One Singular Sensation, Shelley
  • Life's A Symphony (My former residence)


  • Granny Cooks (and Eats)!

  • The Pioneer Woman Cooks
  • Full Bellies, Happy Kids
  • Slashfood
  • A Year in Bread
  • A Year of Crockpotting
  • Hold the Toast


  • Granny's House (and yours!)

  • The Nesting Place
  • Like Merchant Ships
  • The Inspired Room
  • IDEA Hacker


  • The HOPE blogs...
  • The Mantooth Family Story
  • Fehrenbach Fold
  • Longenblog!
  • Sabo Family Dynamics
  • The Greenhouse
  • Our Journey, Prathers
  • Sugar 'n' Spice, Smiths
  • The Cole Family
  • Order Out of Chaos, Dittmeiers

  • Granny gets around...
  • Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
  • Breathing Grace
  • I Take Joy
  • Restoring the Years
  • Notes in the Key of Life
  • Spunky Homeschool
  • Raising Five
  • Amy's Humble Musings


  • Family Friendly Blogroll [−]

    Granny stays informed...
  • Real Clear Politics
  • Fox News
  • Drudge Report

  • Granny Thinks...
  • Al Mohler
  • Between Two Worlds
  • Blog and Mablog
  • First Importance
  • Equipping the Saints
  • Desiring God

  • Granny says you may go to...
  • PowerLine Blog
  • Michelle Malkin
  • SteynOnline
  • WSJ Opinion Journal Best of the Web
  • GetHuman
  • Home School Legal Defense Association

  • Granny goes to the movies...
  • Netflix
  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • ScreenIt.com

  • Granny is watching!
  • Blue Pencil Editing
  • SPOGG
  • Mighty Red Pen
  • Conjugate Visits

  • Granny smiles at...
  • Purgatorio
  • ScrappleFace
  • LarkNews
  • Sacred Sandwich

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    Sunday, December 02, 2007

    WOMEN can give their children a lifelong taste for “healthy but horrible” foods such as broccoli and brussels sprouts simply by eating them during pregnancy or while breast-feeding, researchers have found.

    I love broccoli. I want to like Brussels sprouts. I really do. But I think I must have been born during The Great Brussels Sprouts Famine of '53'-54.


    Love of broccoli begins in womb

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    Granny's Mission Statement
    "...Tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done....that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, that they may arise and tell them to their children."
    ~Psalm 78:4-6

    My Focal Passage for 2009...
    from Philippians 3...

    7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

    8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ,

    9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

    10 that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

    11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

    12 Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

    13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

    14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

    ~Philippians 3:7-14 (NASB)

    Granny wishes she had said...
    "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

    ~~W. Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965


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    Granny is reading!


    Books in the iPod or on the nightstand...
  • In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
  • Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore, Ian Urbina


  • Books finished in 2009...
  • Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
  • The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pan in Your Kitchen, Sharon Kramis
  • Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places, L. L. Barkat
  • The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
  • Financial Peace Revisited, Dave Ramsey
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
  • The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
  • Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
  • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, John J. Medina
  • It's All Too Much, Peter Walsh
  • Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
  • 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, Michael Brooks
  • Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft, Brooks Landon
  • Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide, Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin
  • Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics, David M. Bressoud
  • Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language, John McWhorter
  • New Mercies, Sandra Dallas
  • Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt, William Kloss

  • On Granny's list for 2009...
  • The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God, John Piper
  • New Mercies, Sandra Dallas
  • The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells
  • The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness, Al Mohler
  • Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc., Kevin DeYoung
  • So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
  • The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Twyla Tharp
  • Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, Ron Hall
  • The Beautiful Ache: Finding the God Who Satisfies When Life Does Not, Leigh McLeroy
  • A New Kind of Normal: Hope-Filled Choices When Life Turns Upside Down, Carol Kent
  • In the schoolroom...


    Tunes on the iPod...




    Oh, the thinks you
    can think...

    Oh, the places we'll go...

    Granny always says...

    Granny used to say...


    Grace Notes

    "Were the whole realm of nature mine
    That were a present far too small...
    Love so amazing, so divine
    Demands my soul, my life,
    my all!"