The only encouragement I can offer others is as a wife and mother. Any thing I read from the bible I try to apply in my own home, and if it helps others, that is a blessing as well. And I always run everything past my husband first to be approved since I am anything […]
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For this week I want to center around love. As a wife and mother, the very essence of my existence is to love and to be loved by those in my own household, first, and then to those that are not in my household-my neighbors. More importantly, I must grasp the meaning of love by
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Spring in Tennessee means flooding. The rains pour down and the rivers swell. I hear the water rushing past our homestead like a raging river tearing down anything in it’s path. Destruction is its song. Our house is built on the side of a big hill and it towers above the floods wrath. This flood
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This is a very quick, easy, and nutritious recipe that my family enjoys! It is something I can throw together after we each our lunch that takes 5 minutes or less! As a busy mother of five, I have 3 things that are important to me when planning a meal: Lately, we have been enjoying
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Winter brings something we all dread…Cabin fever. The kids are full of pent up energy and have nowhere to run it all off. It’s cold, damp, and raining most days, so the kids just stay in. They bicker and quarrel, they sit around and do nothing and as a mom, I shake my head and
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Many people would love to live in community like the Amish do. So many of us crave that warm community life and all it has to offer. The singings, barn raisings, and canning bees. It is the over and over of living that seems so romantic, so simple. Where there is no television set gleaming
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One still quiet morning, I awoke before daybreak, as I most always do. It is a time I set aside for working that does not interfere with mealtime, homeschooling, and spending time with family. There was a time when I was driven and I would spend most of my days while the children were young
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Reflecting on this past year brings many floods of emotion. There are things I would have liked to change and at the same time, I realize how many things are what they are because of one disappointment or another leading to something better than what I could have planned on my own. One year ago,
These fall days, the air is crisp, the color is rich, and the beauty is full of God’s great creativity. As Mark started cleaning up the homestead after a very brushy start, it revealed all kinds of treasures. We discovered several Shagbark Trees and Wild Persimmon Trees. The ground was just gleaming with orange balls
The Tour… This is our 12 acre homestead in the hills of Tennessee where the birds chirp all day long and bees happily buzz. A place where the sun rises and sets over the beautiful hills and cascades its glorious light across our pasture. This must be a dream! It sometimes just seems too good
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