Lisa Carter's Blog, page 10

Why I Wrote The Deputy’s Perfect Match

[image error]

When I was in the 6th grade, I had a friend named Tina. After the death of her parents, she lived with her grandmother. When Tina’s grandmother died, she and her brother were sent to separate foster homes. I will never forget the aching sadness and fear on Tina’s face their last day together at school. I never saw or heard from Tina again. I’ve always hoped that one day she and her brother would find each other again. And so, was born The Deputy’s Perfect Match.

The theme of this book is about wounded hearts. Is there a balm that can soothe hurting souls? There is—and His name is Jesus. It is the love of God and the blood of Christ that makes the wounded whole.

I hope you will enjoy taking this journey with me, Charlie and Evy.

Happy reading,

Lisa

#Recipe—Southern Corn Pudding

Ingredients:

• 1 can cream style corn

• 4 eggs

• 1 pint of milk

• 1 cup sugar

• 1/4 stick margarine, melted

• 3 Tbsp flour

• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Beat eggs, sugar and flour together.
Add milk, margarine, corn & vanilla.
Spray 9×13 baking dish with cooking oil/Pam.
Bake 40-45 minutes in 350 degree oven.
Check center to see if it is done/edges will be browned.

Enjoy.

For more recipes, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

How to Help a Suffering Friend

For more info and photos, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

A Story of Courage—Falling for the Single Dad

For more info and photos, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

Beauty from Ashes—Caroline’s Story

Love this quote—summarizes Caroline Duer’s journey in Falling for the Single Dad.

For more info and photos, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

The Romance of a #Lighthouse #Wedding

Have you ever been to a wedding at a lighthouse?

Here are some fun ideas—

Let them eat cake

The happily-ever-after begins

For more Falling for the Single Dad-inspired photos, visit Pinterest.

Party Food #Recipe—Cucumber Rounds

Ingredients:

• 1 large cucumber

• 1 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened

• 1 1/2 tsp mayonaise

• 1/8 tsp seasoned salt

• 1 loaf multigrain bread

Parsley springs for garnish

Directions:

Cut cucumber in half. Peel, seed and shred 1/2 of cucumber.
Measure 1/3 of shredded cucumber.
For garnish, slice remaining cucumber. Cut slices in half and set aside.
Combine cream cheese, mayo and seasoned salt. Mix till blended.
Stir in shredded cucumber.
Cut 2—2″—rounds from each bread slice.
Spread each round with 1 tsp of cucumber spread.
Garnish each with thin half slice of cucumber and a sprig of parsley.
Can prepare beforehand.

Yield: 48 sandwiches

For more recipes, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

 

A turtle moon

For more turtle photos, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.

Gone from My Sight

While writing Falling for the Single Dad, this poem by Henry Van Dyke was especially poignant to me when my father passed.

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,

spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts

for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.

I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck

of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, “There, she is gone.”

Gone where?

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side.

And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me — not in her.

And, just at the moment when someone says, “There, she is gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices

ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!”

And that is dying…

Behind the Scene #Photos from Falling for the Single Dad

Real-life places on the Eastern Shore of Virginia which inspired fictional Kiptohanock in Falling for the Single Dad—

Fictional Sandpiper Cafe

2. Island House Restaurant—Sweet tea, anyone?

Watching the boats dock

3. Virginia Institute of Marine Science—

Future Scientists

Where in the world is VIMS?

4. Wachapreague Volunteer Fireman’s Carnival—just in case you missed the real deal—

inspiration for The Spider

Cute Kids Contest aka Izzie and Max win

My favorite ride—the Ferris Wheel

For more behind the scene photos, visit Falling for the Single Dad on Pinterest.