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It has been awhile since I did a manners post. But we have been eating soup a lot this winter so I thought it was a good time to cover how to eat soup. And I share the recipe to our favorite soup right now.

Now that we have moved into a bigger home, we have more space which also means more lights and more places I can’t see. We talked in a recent family night about how leaving lights on, as well as the TV and other electronics, cost money. In an effort to be thrifty, we came up with a light-turn-off-plan.

Have you ever been underestimated? I was underestimated in college by my Language Arts professor. It was one of my first classes in the Education Department and I was a little naive.

If you think I’ve exhausted the basket topic, think again. This move has opened up even more basket organization ideas for me. But I’ll just share my latest and greatest use of the basket in this post.

Yesterday we had a lesson in church about “Love thy neighbor, as thyself.” Most of the discussion was about how we could serve and love our neighbors more, but my mind was fixated on the last two words: “as thyself.”