When my first daughter was born, she had an older brother and that was our family for nearly 4 years. I was so excited to have my little girl {and my little boy}, but little did I know how much influence her older brother would wield over her. When she was a mere 3 years [...]
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Even when our own don’t exist, we young women like to talk about our future marriage, home, and children, don’t we? Simply put, we were made for that kind of life. And occasionally you might hear us ask each other with a hardly-suppressed grin, “So, if you were married tomorrow and had a home of [...]
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The further I travel on this parenting path the more I realize my inadequacy. I can plan and schedule, I can train them and teach them everything that I know about homemaking. I can have the God-given goal of training these girls in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. I can do this with [...]
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Homemaking is serious business, you know. And amid all of the serious points of focus, over which we exercise the limited control we have, groping and grasping for things that only God can see the other end of, we must endeavor for a truly significant, but frequently overlooked aspect of homemaking: making our family feel [...]
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I have major issues with weeds. Not only are they unsightly, but I go through all this work to make my garden look like a Monet painting and the weeds have the audacity to plop themselves amongst the pansy’s like they were invited! I didn’t look through my seed catalog and say to my [...]
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I’m home alone with a bunch of little siblings for two days. I’m vacuuming because I stepped on a sticky juice spill, and cleaning up the sticky juice spill made me realize how crummy the hardwood is. I’m vacuuming, and the baby sister is chirping the same syllable every split second. I’m vacuuming, and the little brother [...]
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As I go through each day walking hand in hand with my six daughters, watching as they grow into the young ladies that God created them to be, I realize that the one thing that is vital to being a successful homemaker is something that is out of my power to give. For what is [...]
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As we walked from our car to the pool, our first time visiting this summer, she was walking out. Young, fresh, beautiful, perky and scantily clad. Her suit was so revealing that my young son, just five, couldn’t take his eyes off of her. He had never seen something like this before and in his [...]
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