I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 16. Not nearly as many issues are as black and white as some people want them to be and tell you that they have to be. This includes the people with all the detailed Scripture explanations, loud voices, guilt trips, pressing demands, threats, …
Honestly, that’s the way I’m feeling right now. I feel like a lousy wife, homemaker, friend, church member, Christian, blogger… You name it and I don’t feel like I’m doing a very good job. Well, I feel like I’m doing ok as Caroline’s mama, but everything else stinks. I guess I just didn’t want to …
I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 8. Time does heal most wounds, but not all and not completely. 9. It is easy to measure success in life. Simply ask yourself, “Am I more Christ-like now than I was a year ago?” 10. Your dress size does not determine your …
As promised, here is the requested recipe for Cream Cheese Frosting. This is delicious on cinnamon rolls! A couple of recommendations for when you make this: A half of a box of confectioner’s sugar is 8 ounces. You can use up to an entire box of confectioner’s sugar. The more sugar you add, the less …
Cindy at Dominion Family has an interesting and funny discussion going on (archived link). People are admitting the books they absolutely hate that are considered to be “classics” within the culture, the church, and/or the homeschool movement. What a catharsis! Really. I’m going to admit something I’ve never admitted here before. I am not a …
1. A woman is complete in Christ – nothing more and nothing less. Marriage and/or motherhood may change her worldly status and role, but they do nothing to make her more complete in Christ. Salvation, wholeness, and meaning are found in Christ alone. 2. To be a homemaker, I need to stay home. I do …
I’ve been having fun around home working on de-piling the past week or so. It isn’t as though there were huge piles of stuff all over the house. Just little ones here and there, in this drawer and that, on this desk and that desk, in the basement, etc. Over the past several months I’ve …
The tension I feel in writing about a topic such as this is that some people might be quick to be offended. They will think I am criticizing them and their life choices. Or they will think I don’t understand their situation and so they write off everything that is said rather than pondering whether …
We fed Caroline around 10 p.m. and she slept until around 6 a.m. Sweet relief! I have 25% less brain fog this morning! Thank you for your prayers. I can list several other possible contributing factors, but I count first among them the power of prayer. 🙂
First of all, I have no idea why I am naming my entries what I am the past two days. Well, yes, I do. I think it is called sleep deprived. Gee, I can’t even think of the word. You know that word when you are wacky from lack of sleep? Well, it will probably …
When was the last time you did something you truly loved, but no longer have the time for? (This is going to be kind of rambly. Consider yourself forewarned.) I’m still thinking about some of the things I wrote last time regarding coping with my abundance. I appreciated two other posts today because they touched …
My favorite books have usually centered around living a quiet life at home. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Grace Livingston Hill, Grace Richmond, Sydney Taylor (author of the All-of-a-Kind Family books) and Maud Heart Lovelace (author of the Betsy-Tacy books) all write stories about home life and the relationships of the home. While the characters may go …
