The Home Sweet Home Collection: A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet / Home Is Where My People Are

Sophie Hudson

• Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781496420893
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

This collection bundles two of popular author Sophie Hudson's books together in one e-book, for a great value!

A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet
There's nothing quite like family—for good or bad. But in a world where we sometimes know more about the Kardashians than we do the people sleeping right down the hall, it's easy to forget that walking through life with our family offers all sorts of joy wrapped up in the seemingly mundane. There's even a little bit of sacred sitting smack-dab in the middle of the ordinary. And since time's-a-wastin', we need to be careful that we don't take our people—and their stories—for granted. Whether it's a marathon bacon-frying session, a road trip gone hysterically wrong, or a mother-in-law who makes every trip to the grocery store an adventure, author Sophie Hudson reminds us how important it is to slow down and treasure the day-to-day encounters with the people we love the most.

Written in the same witty style as Sophie's BooMama blog, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet is a cheerful, funny, and tender account of Sophie's very Southern family. It's a look into the real lives of real people—and a real, loving God right in the middle of it all.

Home Is Where My People Are
All roads lead to home. It's easy to go through life believing that we can satisfy our longing for home with a three-bedroom, two-bath slice of the American dream that we mortgage at 4 percent and pay for over the course of thirty years. But ultimately, in our deepest places, we're really looking to belong and to be known. And what we sometimes miss in our search for the perfect spot to set up camp is that wherever we are on the long and winding road of life, God is at work in the journey, teaching us, shaping us, and refining us—sometimes through the most unlikely people and circumstances. In Home Is Where My People Are, Sophie Hudson takes readers on a delightfully quirky journey through the South, introducing them to an unforgettable cast of characters, places, and experiences. Along the way, she reflects on how God has used each of the stops along the road to impart timeless spiritual wisdom and truth. Nobody embodies the South like Sophie Hudson, and this nostalgic celebration of home is sure to make even those north of the Mason-Dixon line long to settle in on the front porch with a glass of sweet tea and reflect on all of the people in our lives who—related or not—have come to represent home. Because at the end of the day, it's not the address on the front door or even the name on the mailbox that says home, but the people who live and laugh and love there, wherever there might happen to be.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Praise for Sophie Hudson
• Copyright
• A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet
• Dedication
• A Little Literary Disclaimer
• Introduction: Because I’m Crazy about My People
• Chapter One: Not to Mention That Her Apple Tarts Would Change Your Whole Life
• Chapter Two: When the Biggest Portion of All Is the Love
• Chapter Three: When the Fine China Is, Um, Refining
• Chapter Four: The Saga of the Homemade Biscuits
• Chapter Five: When the “Immeasurably More” Pretty Much Rocks Your World
• Chapter Six: Mother’s Got a Bell! A Ringy-Ding Bell!
• Chapter Seven: The Night We neither Camped nor Fished
• Chapter Eight: A Denominational Showdown in the Frozen Foods Aisle
• Chapter Nine: For Better, for Worse, and in the Increasingly Likely Chance of a Heatstroke
• Chapter Ten: Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s One Hundred-y
• Chapter Eleven: When Prayer Meeting Includes a Cocktail Hour
• Chapter Twelve: Because Nothing Says “Welcome” like Rifling through a Handbag
• Chapter Thirteen: Watching TV with My Daddy
• Chapter Fourteen: The Unexpected Ministry of the Cowbell
• Chapter Fifteen: Saturday Lunch and the Fine Art of Funeral Planning
• Chapter Sixteen: Because Nothing Says “Happy Anniversary” like Eight Pounds of Bacon
• Chapter Seventeen: It Only Takes a Spark to Get a Kindle Going
• Chapter Eighteen: That Whole Table Thing Is Pretty Symbolic, Y’all
• Recipes: And Now It Is Time for All the Food
• Home Is Where My People Are
• Dedication
• Map
• A Quick Note about Some Things
• Introduction: That Time I Was Going to a Parade
• Chapter 1: Surprisingly, the Fried Chicken Is Not My Dominant Memory
• Chapter 2: That Apostles’ Creed Will Tear You Up if You Pay Attention to It
• Chapter 3: What Mississippi Does
• Chapter 4: Redemption Sounds a Little Bit like an Old George Jones Song
• Chapter 5: Twenty-Six Activities of Great Substance That I Enjoyed in High School
• Chapter 6: The Lesser-Known Objectives of Higher Education
• Chapter 7: Because Conversation, Chips, and Queso Can Flat-Out Build a Bridge
• Chapter 8: When a Disciple of the Lord Drives a Gray Honda Accord
• Chapter 9: By All Means, Let’s Attend to the Superficial
• Chapter 10: Friends Don’t Let Friends Plan Late-Summer Weddings
• Chapter 11: When the Bells and Whistles Blow Up and Go Boom
• Chapter 12: The Brat Pack Movies Didn’t Really Cover This Part
• Chapter 13: No Me Gusta, Y’all
• Chapter 14: El Sombrero in the Sky
• Chapter 15: Because We All Have Fashion Regrets from Our Twenties
• Chapter 16: When God Hit Me over the Head with a Big Red Stick
• Chapter 17: Sometimes the Promised Land Has Really Good Barbecue
• Chapter 18: Seventeen Helpful Terms for the Formerly Wayward and/or Semi-prodigal Who Decides to Go to Church Again
• Chapter 19: What with Elise Being Recently Widowed and All
• Chapter 20: When I Reach the Place I’m Going
• Acknowledgments
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author