Last Saturday I decided to weed the garden. It was so hot outside, but it needed to be done in order to put the newspaper and straw down this week. Weeding the garden is definitely not high on my list of fun things to do. Weeding the garden by myself is even lower on my [...]
Homemade Teacher Gifts and Circus Party Ideas
Excuses
I have used many excuses over the years as to why things get messy, cluttered, or out of control in our home. If you are like me, when you let things gradually build up they eventually become mountains that you feel like you will never be able to climb, especially when it comes to housekeeping. [...]
Menu Plan for the Week of May 23rd.
Eye of the Beholder
The countryside is covered with these yellow blooms right now. They remind me of a time many years ago when my grandma came for a visit. She had driven past many fields that were full of these yellow flowers. She described the fields as being beautiful and wondered what they were. My dad told her [...]
Cook Once, Eat Twice
Created to Be His Help Meet: Chapters 22-24
Menu Plan for the Week of May 16th.
Saturday afternoon we did some baking. We made some double fudge brownies for a church carry-in, 2 pans of whole wheat cinnamon rolls, 3 loaves of whole wheat bread, a pizza to put in the freezer, and… …pizza and breadsticks for supper that night. I have been freezing extra loaves of bread, cinnamon rolls and [...]
Country Life
We live out in the country where things are pretty quiet. Nothing overly exciting usually happens. Some might find it boring, but I find it to be very peaceful. OK, kids, it really isn’t that boring out in the country, is it? Actually, they weren’t bored. They were playing on our front deck, and decided [...]