by Darlene Schacht | Jan 28, 2011 | Recipes
If you’re making lunches day after day, you might be looking to add a little creativity to your meals. While dinners are usually on the serious side, lunchtime gives me the opportunity to have a little fun with the kids.Last year Brendan and I started doing...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 27, 2011 | Brides in Training, Your Letters
Dear Darlene,I love your blog. I love reading it and finding out that there are others out there that have the same beliefs as me. At the moment I am still single, I know God has wonderful plans for me right now–as well as work that needs to be done in me before...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Someone recently commented on my painted table asking me how easy/or difficult it was to do. The answer is “very easy,” in fact so easy that I’ll tell you how you can do your own.The table is about ten years old now, but just a few years after we...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 24, 2011 | Brides in Training, Titus 2sdays, Your Letters
And a Titus 2sday link up!! {below}Dear Darlene,I found your blog through Courtney at Women Living Well. I read the Bride in Training post and loved what you advised. I am a bride in training who is wanting to learn how to be a godly wife for my future husband....
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness,the taste of ashes, the poison I’ve swallowed.I remember it all—oh, how well I remember—the feeling of hitting the bottom.But there’s one other thing I remember,and remembering, I keep a grip on...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 20, 2011 | Help-Meet, Marriage, Your Letters
Dear Darlene,Your post [Men Are From Mars] was so great! I think the advice you offered Jessica was right on.It is SO tough for a man to lose his job. My husband was so upset when this happened to him. He told me later that when he was told he was being laid off, he...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 17, 2011 | Love, Marriage
I’m entirely blessed to introduce my guest writer to you today: Ann Voskamp, the author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan), blogger at A Holy Experience, and cherished friend. I met Ann online about five years ago, but...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was woken by a phone call this morning from one of my sisters who told me that “The Winnipeg Free Press” had printed yet another article on the topic of Time-Warp Wife (this is three in one week now). In this article the author, Tom Oleson defends...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 15, 2011 | Reshaping it All
As most of you know, I’ve recently co-authored a book with Candace Cameron Bure, and as you can imagine it’s been a crazy, exciting, and blessed experience. One I never dreamed would happen to this little girl on the Canadian Prairies.What a lot of people...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 14, 2011 | Comfort, Persecution, The Cross, Your Letters
I have received so many letters of encouragement from readerss, and each time I reply to one yet another is finds its way to my inbox. Thank you. As I’m reading your letters (and I’m not through all of them yet) I am touched that women are reaching out to...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 12, 2011 | Husbands, Love, Marriage, Respect, Understanding, Wives, Your Letters
Darlene, I just stumbled across your blog. I am in the middle of [your book] “Reshaping It All,” and I just had a question about a life situation right now.My husband recently lost his job. He is in the Political field and things in our area took a down turn after...
by Darlene Schacht | Jan 7, 2011 | Christian Living, Health, Persistance, Reshaping it All
After ten years, I can finally say with confidence that I am a lifetime member of “Reshaping it All.” Being a lifetime member doesn’t mean that I’m so tiny I slip back into my high school jeans, nor does it mean that I don’t struggle with the desire to eat...