Christmas 2025 will be here in a few days already! This year our family will gather on Christmas Day. What a joy it is to me ...

The family's Christmas brunch featured a "breakfast haystack," a layered dish of biscuits, meat, eggs, and various toppings.

It is Monday evening, just after 7 p.m. here at the Eicher homestead. Supper is over with and dishes are washed. It is time to call it a day.

Lovina looks forward to her family gathering on Christmas Day. Before then, she made Christmas cookies for Joe to give to his ...

Saturday was a very cold and windy day, so the men were unable to put the roof metal on the new pole barn. They kept busy doing other work on the barn, such as building the sliding doors, putting on ...

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 ...

Daughter Verena turned 26 on Dec. 10. Grandson Timothy (T.J.) will be 5 on Dec. 17, granddaughter Allison will be 4 on Dec. 27, and my husband Joe will be 55 on Dec. 22. Happy birthday to all of them!

Cream together brown sugar, lard or butter and eggs. Stir baking soda into sour milk. Sift baking powder, salt and flour together. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately to the creamed mixture. Drop ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year our family will gather on Christmas Day. What a joy it is to me when we can be with our loved ones. Let us remember ...