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Legacy of Love – In Honor of Ray Frappier

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week has been a tough one. I’m getting ready to hit the road on another book tour, Kayla is still recovering, hubby is sick, and I got the news Sunday that my precious Grandpa is not long for this earth. My Grandpa is amazing. He’s also a WWII veteran and hero. A beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. I’m praising God that Grandpa is going home. No more pain. No more alzheimer’s. No more suffering. But wow, it sure is hard. Grandma and Grandpa have now been married 70 years. Wow. My family is close – and our grandparents have always been there. Always. As I sit here with tears streaming down my face, I realized that the very first blog I posted – five years ago – on Aug. 23, 2007 – was in tribute to them. So here is a re-post – Legacy of Love.

I love…

Resolutions, Words, and Homemade Ravioli

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Thursday, January 5, 2012 | 10 Comments

How many of you have made New Year’s resolutions? Even if it’s not specifically titled as such, a lot of us have at least said, “it’s a new year, I need to _________ .”

What about a “word” for the year? I know many people have done this for quite some time. Do you have a specific word for this year?

We would LOVE to hear from you guys about resolutions or words. I’ll (Kim) even you give you my two cents

As for resolutions – this year I’ve made some goals for myself. Goals that I know I can attain. Goals that won’t stress me out. Goals that will give me that happy little check-mark and I can grant myself permission to have a little party because I did it.

As for a word – well, let’s just say that last year’s word…

Twenty Years…

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 | 7 Comments

Christmas was amazing. Time with family and friends. Time to celebrate our Savior’s birth.

But this year, there was something I looked forward to even more than Christmas.

Drum roll please… : This week, my hubby and I will hit the big 2-0. That’s right. We’ve been married twenty years. Did you read that?
… 20
… two times ten
… four times five
… one fifth of a century
… one score
… you get the picture.

I’m sitting here totally amazed that Jeremy has put up with me all this time. It blows my mind that after 20 years, it’s even better than ever. And I’m also confused… where on earth did all that time go?

While it’s true that our oldest will soon be (gasp!) seventeen, and our baby will soon be fifteen (say it ain’t so!) – I truly am having…

Better than Starbucks… Cranberry Bliss Bars – Kim Style

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 | 5 Comments

Okay everyone, after hearing request after request for the recipe – I finally remembered to post it

I’ve been developing my own recipes for decades (wow, did I really just admit that I’m getting old?) and this one is easy. A friend (waving at Becca!) brought me a cranberry bliss bar (I believe these are trademarked) from Starbucks. I LOVED them, and decided to try my hand at duplicating them. The result? Well, not to toot my own horn… too much… But everyone liked mine better. I then had several friends who brought over other knock-off recipes from the internet and we had our own blind taste test – just to make sure that we had a recipe worthy of posting.

And… mine won! (Yes, there was a little Snoopy-dancing on my part.)

Since I posted on Facebook about…

A chance to win signed books for Christmas!

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Monday, December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments

Would you like to give some books for Christmas? We’re giving away 3 sets of signed – Welcome Home, No Safe Haven, and Race Against Time to the top three “word-of-mouth”ers All you have to do to enter is twitter about us and/or one or all of the books, (make sure you @reply me @kimwoodhouse or we won’t see it) share about us here on facebook, send people to the fan page, blog about us or the books, etc. Basically anything social media. Each mention needs to be helping to spread the word about our books and each mention counts as an entry. You MUST tag or mention me or the fan page or we won’t see it. The prize includes one of each book signed, and shipping to your choice of address. To US residents only – but since we have so many friends…

My Life is Boring… Really

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

We’re home, after nine weeks on the road for this latest book tour. The daunting tasks of unloading and cleaning the RV are done, but the mountainous tasks of laundry and getting the house decorated for Christmas loom like monsters ready to eat me. So here I sit. Staring at the computer screen. Thinking, “I really need to blog. I’m so behind.”

And then… nothing. My mind went totally blank. Thoughts like, “I don’t have anything cute to say. Nothing of great import. I’m way too boring.”

You all know this to be true, right?

The last nine weeks started to flood back in…

Suspicious police report filed in Arkansas
Low bridge in Niagara Falls
State troopers coming to stop traffic on the highway (because of me! LOL)
A broken tooth
An abscess tooth
A slide motor coming completely disengaged
Shimmying my 55-foot rig…

Niagara or BUST!

Posted By Kim Woodhouse On Sunday, October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

The adventures of our book tour continue… and as I try to drive, write, speak, and feed everyone in our little entourage, I find myself exhausted each day as my head hits the pillow and I think, “Man, I need to blog!”

Thanks to the wonderful people at Pulse Point Designs, we have this incredible new website – Kim (that’d be me) just needs to learn said website and keep up. I do appreciate everyone and your encouragement and great emails about how much you love it – we do too!! I promise, I’ll do better. Really, I do. If I can just get to a place that has fast WiFi, I’ll be doing good. (I’ve done enough typing on my iPhone to know that I stink at it!)

Anyway, last time, I told you about our “suspicious” police report and how we were…