About two months ago we moved into a new house. There were many factors involved in making this move. The most important one was that we needed a house with an in-law suite for my parents. My parents currently are very active and healthy, but it was beginning to worry me in the back of …
I love this song. I often think of it when I'm praying just before I read my Bible. This song always puts me in a prayerful spirit for reading the Bible with a view to learning something. The Christian life is about surrender. Surrender of ourselves to God's will for us. Surrender of ourselves to serve …
I've had a very difficult week fighting a flu of some sort. So this week instead of doing my usual review I'm encouraging you to head over to my daughter's blog and read her review of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. She reviews all of the books with a short review of the movies …
This has been quite the week for me. I've been sick with the flu that wouldn't leave. I used essential oils to help with my breathing, vitamin C powder to give myself megadoses of this vitamin and the occasional ibuprofen when the aches and headache just felt too overwhelming. I finally feeling like I'm getting …
For years I threw away old, used-up socks, but it always bothered me. Finally I decided to just start saving them in hopes that I would come up with some way of using them, and I did! A rug made from socks, an "upcycled socks rug". So just in case anyone else is bothered by …
Doing this post has given me a greater appreciation of the colour purple. ☺ How about you?
Everyone has their favourite kitchen tools. And I'm no different. I'm very attached to some of the electronic gadgets in my kitchen. Sometimes I wonder what Ma Ingalls would think if she could walk into my kitchen. I don't need to churn and mold my butter, start a fire before I can cook, fetch water …
I was playing the piano before church yesterday, and one of the songs I picked was "Jesus Is the Sweetest Name I Know". As I played it I was thinking about how the world holds the name of Jesus so lightly these days. It is no longer enough to invoke the name of "God" as …
Intentional Simplicity 