It’s another sunshiny February day with the temperatures above freezing. Yesterday, I hung the laundry out on the wash lines to dry. Once again, I was able to bring it all in and fold it and put it ...

Mix well the eggs, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, vanilla extract, and brown sugar. Now whisk in the milk and melted butter. Finally add in the oats, and pour mixture into a baking dish (8×8 baking ...

Sons Benjamin, 21, and Joseph, 18, both have left for work. It is 5 a.m. and I decided I’ll write this column while all is still quiet. The weather has taken a big change overnight. Yesterday, and for ...

Twenty years ago, when baked oatmeal was hardly a blip on anyone’s breakfast radar, a friend gave me a recipe for Amish Baked Oatmeal. It was delicious, but with a stick and a half of butter and more ...

SUNDERLAND — Earlier this year Anna S. Miller did two things uncommon for a 23-year-old to do for the first time: She made a telephone call, and she began a business. Born and raised in a strict Amish ...

This has been a different winter so far weather-wise. We had another snowstorm during the past week, but then as quickly as it snowed, it warmed up. Now it rained during the night and the temperature ...

The children have all gone to bed and are sound asleep. The children and I spent the day at my sisters, Susan and Verena's house, helping them get ready for an upcoming yard sale. My sister Emma and ...

What an eventful day! Mom invited my two sisters-in-law and me to her house for the day. Plans were to bake pies and do whatever other projects we wanted to bring along. Pies sounded like an ...

Sons Benjamin, 21, and Joseph, 18, both have left for work. It is 5 a.m., and I decided I’ll write this column while all is still quiet. The weather has taken a big change overnight. Yesterday, and ...