I've been doing lots of scrapbooking this week, and I was able to get a new Sunday dress 90% finished for my youngest daughter. I tried something new on it and was so happy with the results. So was my daughter. The weather is finally warming up, and my children are thoroughly enjoying our back …
Okay, I'll admit - this is an area that I really have no talent in. Even so Mrs. Schaeffer would not accept this as an excuse for not somehow adding flowers to my life and the life of our family. And to be honest, reading this chapter has inspired me to try to do more …
Somehow April passed me by without my noticing. We were so busy trying to catch up on school and life after several weeks of sickness. And in the midst of it all I forgot to do Ezra's birth story on his birthday. Thankfully Ezra's pretty easy to please, and I know he'll forgive me. Ezra …
I find hymn stories to be fascinating. The why behind the inspiration for the writing of the hymn. The author of "Onward, Christians Soldiers", Sabine Baring-Gould, never intended the song for publication. He only desired a song for school children to sing as they marched from one village to another. He was surprised at how …
As usual I have several books on the go right now, but the best one is Faith and Victory in Dachau. This is the memoir of a Dutch pastor who survived Dachau in World War II. His crime? Encouraging his church school board to stand up to the Germans and not give in to the …
This week we've had some really gorgeous days, and my children have had so much fun playing outside. I've done some de-cluttering and scrapbooking, some sewing and card making. It has been a productive week. We've hung our laundry outside a couple of days and see our rhubarb starting to poke up! Yeah! I've moved …
Last week I gave an update on what I had completed from my Fall/Winter sewing goals. So since I got that cleared out of my brain, I've been thinking a lot about what my goals would be for this summer. Of course, I always have projects in my head. This is just a more formal …
Intentional Simplicity 