Growing Graceful

by Linda

My Summer Fitness Challenge Results

I owe you an update on my Summer Fitness Challenge. I am so aware. I updated you on the first 30 days HERE. If you remember, I wanted to get back in shape, close the gap in my stomach muscles, and I set a fun goal of getting back into my wedding dress by my […]

by Linda

The Danger in Comparing

Our girls have always sung: all over the house, at church, in the store… it shouldn’t have surprised me. I was the child who clogged through every store my mother took me. I remember our oldest 3 girls singing VBS songs in a grocery store and getting a bit loud, I thought, to serenade […]

by Linda

Recipe: Gluten-Free Sourdough Bread

If you have a bubbly, thriving brown rice sourdough starter, then you are ready to start baking! I recently took this bread to a church fellowship meal and an out of town guest who has suffered from Celiac Disease for 20 years said that after trying many gluten free bread recipes, her long search was […]

by Linda

The Best Thing We Gained at the Fair

Have you ever noticed how kids have a very accurate internal clock, like, from the get go? We took our oldest to the county fair when she was about three and the next summer, days before the fair was going to start, she started asking me about that place with lights and food and rides? […]

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Caring For Your Gluten-Free Sourdough Starter

If you have never baked with sourdough, there are a few good things to know. What Is Sourdough? Sourdough is a mixture of flour and water that contains wild yeasts and lactobacilli. These naturally occurring cultures actually “eat” the simple sugars in the grains, beginning the process of breaking it down. During this process, […]