Between You and Me...

    I was hooked.  I couldn't put it down!  Once I finished, I was off to the library to check out the next book.  My husband laughingly calls these books my "drugs."  They left me frantic, overwhelmed, oddly uplifted, and then confused.  Maybe that's my version of a hangover from the addiction!        I am referring to books by Christian author Karen Kingsbury, most specifically the Baxter Family books.  They really aren't a series.  They're a hyper-series, full of several smaller series about this famous fictional family.  As of this writing, I believe there are thirty books about the Baxters now.  It's hard to keep up.   The first 23 books      These characters were first introduced in the Redemption series, a five-book series Karen Kingsbury wrote with Gary Smalley.  A friend introduced them to me a number of years ago, and as soon as I started book 1, I was hooked. ...

*Photos owned by Hallmark       This one's to my fellow Hearties...in layman's terms, fans of the TV program When Calls the Heart .  My husband always laughs when this show ever comes up, and says, "When calls the heart, take an antacid!"  Very cute.         When Calls the Heart originally premiered January 11, 2014 on the Hallmark Channel.  The show's premise (and this is important, so take notes!) is that a well-off city-bred young woman takes a job as a schoolteacher in the remote frontier town of Coal valley (the name of which is changed to Hope Valley in season 2).  Once she arrives, this young woman (Elizabeth Thatcher), meets the Royal Canadian Mountie Jack Thornton.  They have a very slowly-developing love story.  Very slowly.  Note the word slowly .        Another very important character is the recently-widowed Abigail Stanton, played by Lori Loughlin (That is also importan...

* Unless stated to be my pictures, all art owned by Focus on the Family      This particular post may be a bit niche, but I imagine many of you will relate.  If you're new to this blog, I write commentary (mostly funny and light-hearted) on different media, such as movies and TV shows.  As a Christian, I also touch on what can be considered from a biblical worldview about these different things--that is, what messages are they really giving us?  This blog is relatively new, but I also write a more in-depth biblical worldview blog called Missionary at Rest, if you're interested in reading that (missionaryatrest.blogspot.com). That one has been going for over four years, and has more momentum.        Having explained that, this post takes me to my Saturday evenings growing up.  My siblings and I would spend our Saturdays out of doors with neighbor friends, but when we came home at the end of the day, our parents would often want ...