(Young Shepherdess - William-Adolphe Bouguereau) Just a few days ago, I was in the grocery store carrying a 5 pound bag of flour. A little boy wandered past me and patted his mother on her arm. “Mommy, do ladies have muscles?” She smiled as she looked down at her son. “Ladies do actually have muscles, just not as [...]
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“A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love’s lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.” ~ J.R. [...]
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I have put off pruning our grape for too long. Have you ever stalled from doing something because you were totally intimidated by it? When you have all these grand ideas of growing, nurturing, and producing grapes or hardy kiwis, there is a point that you just have to tackle the learning curve it takes [...]
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Over the next nine months I will be writing about the fruit of the Spirit and its cultivation in our lives. With each post I’ll be including a free embroidery pattern download featuring the month’s topic. — Have you ever stopped to think about how your family will look five years from now? How about [...]
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Life’s little moments are fleeting! We need only blink and another day passes. Where does the time go? “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” -Ephesians 5:15-16 When I think about time, I simultaneously think about its value. We each have so [...]
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Would you like your 12 year old to be able to say, “Mom, I’d like to make dinner tonight.” ? Would you like to to be able to ask your 9 year old to bake some bread? Letting your children help in the kitchen, beginning when they are small will start them and you on [...]
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Maybe I am far behind in the world of craftiness, but until a few months ago, I had never even heard of loom knitting, but now it’s become a favorite activity in our home! As I’m always on the lookout for relatively easy handicrafts we can do around here, I liked the idea and thought [...]
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Many of us were not raised to know how to cook, clean, manage our time our budgets, so we need a little help! A few books that would benefit any homemaker would be from some from Emilie Barnes, a very popular and helpful Christian author: Emilie’s Creative Home Organizer A time and organizational management [...]
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