November is the Thanksgiving month and this week I’m particularly thankful for a new appliance – my dishwasher! It comes with a funny back story though. Last month there was a day that I was feeling particularly overwhelmed. Or rather, I’d been feeling overwhelmed for weeks and I felt like it was coming to a…
Thinking generationally. It is something I’ve been considering lately. This phase of life in which I’m currently immersed (specifically, lots of little children), makes it easy to hyper focus on whatever is happening in the moment, because there is SO MUCH happening all of the time! Whenever I am obsessing over all the things that…
Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in YHWH, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. – Psalm 37:1-3 One of the curses of social media and the entertainment industry is that we…
Yesterday we started “officially” homeschooling, and as people replied with congratulations and well wishes to the cute pic of our oldest daughter holding her “welcome to 1st grade” sign, someone made a comment about how I must have endless energy. But the reality is – no, I actually don’t! It’s typical of the replies we…
As a parent, do you think about the spouses you are raising? A spouse can be either a great blessing or a great curse. One of my goals in life is to raise Godly offspring who will be wonderful husbands and wives. Before I was married this was something I thought of in theory, but…
Sometimes I think about things I would have told myself 5ish years ago as a new wife and mother. As of today, I’ve added to the list: just buy the jar of minced garlic! For those who want the explanation … I consider myself to be somewhere on the spectrum of “food purist”, and I’m…
Baby goats have to be the cutest baby animals in the world! I knew that several of our Nigerian Dwarf does would be kidding sometime, but they run in the same pasture with the billy so I had no idea when to expect babies. Last week, I looked out the window and there in the…
Homesteading is – bundling up 4 children, including the 8 week old, to go out in 30 degree weather at dusk because the cows need hay and James needs my help to move the round bale. We don’t have a hay barn so the bales, that were already large to begin with, are even heavier…
