Gingerbread Cookies

This pretty much sums up my afternoon - baking gingerbread cookies.  YUM!

Picnic in December

On December 4 @ 4pm - we met Grandma for a picnic.  We had chips, juice boxes and cookies.  What a beautiful day.  Hard to believe that it was nice enough to be outside with only a sweatshirt on.  

Breath of Dawn Review

Breath of Dawn 

by Kristen Heitzmann

This book is a Christian fiction with a little mystery and a little romance under one cover.  

The story starts out with Morgan, a father of a small child, learning to adjust to living a life and raising a young child on his own, after his wife dies in an accident.  Morgan has family support to help him in this transition.  To help ease the transition, and putting his child's needs first, he chooses to live on a ranch near the mountains  near his brother and family for help with his child.  

Quinn is a single woman who makes her living buying items from estate sales and listing them on ebay.  RaeAnne is the daughter of an elderly woman who has passed away, and RaeAnne is left with settling the estate.  Quinn offers to work on the estate and get it ready to sell.  RaeAnne takes her up on the offer - with the understanding that if/when Quinn finds a locket with a picture of her father (whom RaeAnne has never met) that she will call right away.  Quinn spends days going through the items in the house, searching for the locket, and sifting through the estate.  

Morgan lives near the estate, and decides to purchase the estate as a transition for him and his daughter to live on their own, but still have his brother and family close by.  When he stops by the house to take a look, he meets Quinn.  Quinn gets some help from Morgan in clearing out some large unwanted items from the basement.  Discovering this house was once an asylum is an interesting twist to the story.  In the cellar are items used when the asylum was in use.  Quinn is invited by Morgan's brother and wife to Thanksgiving at their house.  Morgan, his daughter and a few other close friends enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.  A snowstorm causes them all to stay there overnight.  Quinn's past comes into the story and Morgan offers her a solution to overcome her past.  Quinn takes him up on this offer, and the story only gets better from here.  You don't want to miss out on this excellent story by Kristen Heitzmann!