We recently read Farmer Boy aloud with Caroline. Have you ever noticed how a significant portion of books like this revolve around food? Throughout the entire book, the Wilder family is planting it, caring for it, protecting it, harvesting it, …
In 3 Reasons To Become a Prudent & Prepared Homemaker, we looked at the importance of developing a plan for your home including why you need a pantry and why you need to prepare for difficult circumstances. In doing these things, you’ll be …
Being a homemaker means making a home for you and your loved ones. Once you embrace the simplicity of homemaking, all sorts of exciting new paths open for you in terms of caring for your home and those who live in it. To help women make the most of …
Happy Monday! I hope you had a restful or productive weekend, depending on what your personal goals were for the time. Here’s a little bit of what I’ve been working on around my home and my goals for this week. Alternatives to FoodSaver …
Note: I originally wrote this piece in 2020, when many parents were suddenly facing difficult decisions about school, health policies, distance learning, and whether to bring their children home. I have left the post as it was written because the …
Happy Monday! It’s a gorgeous first day of June morning here. Deliciously cool (in the 40s) and blue skies. I mentioned last week that we have been doing little things to make home more enjoyable. Since we work at home and home educate, …
If you go all the way back to the beginning of this site, I began with writing about simple living. Living a quiet life. Making deliberate choices. Those are the threads of thought that have been woven through virtually everything I’ve written …
Happy Monday evening! I hope you had a lovely Memorial Day weekend whether it was at home or somewhere else. We were at home all weekend. (Shocking, I know, since our state is still locked down until June 12.) We made the most of it and took care of …
Happy Monday! As we do each day, David and I were watching the local weather during breakfast when the meteorologist said something about the coming Memorial Day weekend. I was like, “What? This weekend is Memorial Day?!?!?!?” I feel like …
Happy Monday evening! Yes, it’s an evening edition of this week’s post. Today is It’s a Girl Day, the day we celebrate each year discovering via ultrasound that God was giving us the desire of our hearts – a daughter – …
