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Name:
Granny

Location:
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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 25 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
  • Nov 9 - HOPE at Blairs'
  • Nov 15 - Joshua is 10!
  • Nov 25 - Family Night at EZs
  • Nov 26 - THANKSGIVING
  • Nov 29 - First Sunday of Advent
  • Dec 6 - Judah is 2!
  • Dec 6 - Second Sunday of Advent
  • Dec 13 - Third Sunday of Advent
  • Dec 14 - Dave S.'s birthday
  • Dec 14 - HOPE Annual Christmas Cookie Exchange
  • Dec 15 - Aubrey's birthday
  • Dec 19 - Christmas Piano Recital
  • Dec 20 - Fourth Sunday of Advent
  • Dec 25 - CHRISTMAS
  • Dec 31 - David R. is 12!



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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
  • Once a Month Mom
  • $5 Dinners
  • Full Bellies, Happy Kids
  • Slashfood
  • A Year in Bread
  • A Year of Crockpotting


    • Granny's House (and yours!)

  • The Nesting Place
  • Between Naps on the Porch
  • The Inspired Room
  • IKEA 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

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


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    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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    Tuesday, July 22, 2008
    I started to just send this to Blair, but then I decided there might be a lot of you out there, struggling to make and decorate cakes for your kids' birthdays, your grandkids' graduations, your nieces' weddings, who would enjoy the camaraderie. This is a HOOT!

    Cake Wrecks

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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...
    "Going to Aunt Mirandy's is like going down dellar in the dark. There might be ogres and giants under the stairs, --but, as I tell Hannah, there might be elves and fairies and enchanged frogs!"

    ~~Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1903


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    Granny is reading!


    Books in the iPod or on the nightstand...
  • Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
  • So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
  • In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God, John Piper


    • 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
  • Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore, Ian Urbina
  • Parting the Waters: Finding Beauty in Brokenness, Jeanne Damoff

    • On Granny's list for 2009...
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Western Civilization, Jackson J. Spielvogel
  • Greeks Internet Linked, Susan Peach
  • Archimedes and the Door of Science, Jeanne Bendick


    • Tunes on the iPod...
  • Frostiana; Testament of Freedom, Randall Thompson, Composer
  • Best of Bread, Bread
  • The Living Room Sessions, Chris Rice
  • Mockingbird Station, Marshall Styler
  • Come Away with Me, Norah Jones




    • Oh, the thinks you
    can think...
  • Just Write
  • SuperHeroHistorians
  • Delta--Great Stuff for Science
  • Sing 'n Learn
  • Tapestry of Grace
  • Anatomical Charts
  • Webmath
  • America's Library
  • George Washington's Mount Vernon - Virtual Mansion Tour
  • Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Virtual Mansion Tour
  • Hurricane Demo

    • Oh, the places we'll go...
  • The Alamo
  • Majestic Theater
  • Mrs. Valdez' Science Camps in San Antonio
  • The MAiZE
  • Magik Theatre
  • Sheldon Vexler Children's Theatre

    • Granny always says...
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    The Papa and I are off tomorrow after church and b...
    Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elev...
    Welcome news in my book! Oh Baby! Births Set Reco...
    My granddaughter turned four today. And her mommy...
    It's an interesting time in our country. I'm not f...
    This too shall pass...
    Sunday snippets...
    On the way back from dinner last night, we stopped...
    If you're younger than I am, you probably don't re...

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    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!"