This is Tuesday morning, just past 5 a.m. My husband Joe left for another day at the metal and truss shop. Son Benjamin left around 4:30. Son Kevin is still ...

Daughter Loretta writes this week's column. She shares about her family trip to Alabama and stopping for a few days in the ...

Oct. 1, 2002 (23 years ago), I wrote my first column. I thought it would be interesting to all the new and old readers. My mother penned the Amish Cook column for 11 years. I was a teenager at home ...

This is Loretta, I’m Lovina’s daughter. I haven’t written Mom’s column for a while. I thought that since I have some free ...

It’s a beautiful Monday evening here on the Eicher homestead. We had such a nice sunny day, which made for a good laundry day. The solar eclipse was today. How amazing is God’s creation. The ...

It is Tuesday morning, just past 5 a.m. My husband Joe left for another day at the metal and truss shop. Son Benjamin left around 4:30. Son Kevin is still sleeping, and I need to get this column ...

Count down! Only 10 days until daughter Lovina and Daniel’s wedding day. This is shopping week − my least favorite job for a wedding. It takes lots of brain work to figure out exactly how many eggs, ...

At 10 a.m. the temperature is still only at zero degrees with a wind chill of 17 below zero. The last several days we have had even colder temperatures and wind chill down to minus 27 degrees. It’s ...

We have entered the fourth month of 2025. It is 26 degrees at 5:30 a.m. My husband Joe and son Benjamin have both left for work. I have lots and lots of laundry to wash today so I thought I had better ...

Oh my! Three days left until daughter Lovina and Daniel’s wedding. Everything is starting to fall into place, but once again, I feel nervous that I might have forgotten something. I’m sure I have, but ...

Sister-in-law Nancy’s 62nd birthday is on April 23. Brother Amos passed away suddenly six years ago, leaving Nancy a widow. May you have a wonderful birthday, Nancy! Last Friday evening, Joe and I ...

We are having lovely fall weather! The trees are getting prettier each day and are in their autumn splendor. Only our Master ...