Today I made something that I've been wanting to make for a while. I've made crackers before, but I would really like to get into the habit of doing it regularly. The thing that got me going was my baby. He loves crackers for a snack, but I don't like giving him the saltine …
Author: mrsjschon
Library Time 23
Along with struggling to get anything done this week, I also struggled to get any reading done which is highly unusual for me. I did manage one short book on my Kindle. Tales from the Promised Land by John Rose Putnam. There are five short stories from the West and the gold rush. 15-year-old daughter - …
Hard Tack and an Award
This has been a hard week for me in the sense that I feel like I haven't accomplished much. I don't know why, but for some reason I felt like I was fighting every day to accomplish anything outside of school. At least school happened. I did try making some hard tack this week. My …
A Modest Fashion Passion
A couple of weeks ago I asked my "baby" sister, Joy, to do some guest posts on how we can be modest and fashionable at the same time. She always looks great. She has a real sense about what looks great. I didn't buy much without her when we were both single and living at …
New Giveaway Winner
I needed to pick a new winner for the giveaway celebrating Healthy Simplicity's first anniversary. And the winner is....Wanda Bolhous!Congratulations, Wanda. Would you please send me your address so I can send your bag to you.
Encouraging Our Children
Lately my husband and I have been watching a series about some young people who left their religious community - the one they had grown up in all of their lives. What struck me was how they all said over and over they were never praised, never encouraged. They all had dreams they were never …
Library Time 22
This week I finished reading Twelve Years a Slave. What a fascinating book...reading about slavery from someone who had been free and had to suppress all he knew and allow himself to be subjected to all the horrors of slavery. Thank God he was able to make it back to his family. I can't even …
Cupcakes and a Camera
This has been an uneventful, quiet week. We all need weeks like that, right? So there's not much to tell you about. I will say that last Sunday we needed to take some cupcakes to church, and my ten-year-old daughter did them about 98% by herself! She's becoming quite the baker. She chose a chocolate cake …
Chocolate Macaroons
I mentioned a while ago that I had started making macaroons for my husband so he wouldn't need to buy any when he went through a drive-thru for a coffee. What I came up with isn't the same as what he was buying, but he likes it - that's what's important, right? I've tweaked the …
Intentional Simplicity 