The poorly bed is a specially set up place for a loved someone who isn’t feeling so well. In our home this week the children have the chicken pox and poorly beds are here and there – cozy spots to rest and cuddle and heal. Here are some ideas for consideration when setting up a poorly [...]
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Years ago on a road trip south, my family and I enjoyed listening to The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. If you didn’t read this beautiful book as a child, I recommend it as a great read aloud (or listen together) for you and your family. The Pepper family, of whom the book examines, has many [...]
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Per random.org, the winner of the David Nevue CD and Scripture Lullabies CD giveaway from last week is… Mimi2mykids who wrote: “We, too, have music playing in our home and car almost all day long. We love David Nevue and have two of his albums. I was not aware of the Hidden in My Heart [...]
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Groggily I plop into the club chair by the window overlooking the neighbor’s field of soybeans and she, our littlest, settles in to nurse, little hands pulling on my braid. Pandora’s “Hymns for Worship”channel begins softly and gently floats on the early morning air, the rest of our house still asleep as the sun peers over the [...]
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A few years ago I came across an article bemoaning the job of homemaking. I don’t recall the source because I certainly didn’t bookmark it {big smile}. The author would have convinced me to negate homemaking as a career if I wasn’t already a homemaker and hadn’t experienced the truth and fineness of homemaking first hand. I believe these myths are worth airing out in [...]
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We received this question from a reader: “Do you know of anywhere I can find ideas for encouragement for my 9yo daughter? Unfortunately I am unable to home school and I am afraid that she is picking up some disrespectful traits from her peers! I am trying my best to teach her the things she [...]
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Gentle hospitality is necessary in my life. As a family with many children, it isn’t often we are in other people’s homes, and so the need for community and fellowship is usually filled by opening our home. I’ve done the commando mama thing when everyone is in a rush and we’re struggling to get things *perfect* [...]
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Our little Addie recently began the drooling that precedes teeth appearing, and oh, how sad and well-worn our bibs are after five children! It was time for some new ones. This pattern is easy to draft with a few household objects, so let’s begin! I used fabric I had on hand, but if you’re specifically [...]
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