This past week has been a whirlwind. A family from church offered to come with our family to Missouri to help move the Newmans from their rotted trailer. Owen arrived last Friday with his three horses and put them in our pasture here. He looked at his new home and could hardly believe it was […]
We moved to Tennessee last Friday and made our new home on the banks of the infamous Cane Creek. Views are spectacular! The sun is always shining, where the waters flow clear and the wells of sweet, cool springs spill to overflowing. As my joy runs over as the water rolling over the rocks, just
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We are planning a move to Tennessee right now. The doors had opened up for us to transfer our rack making business and homestead store there. We will be renting the same house that we filmed our fist Homesteading for Beginners DVD in near the Cane Creek community. We feel like true pilgrims sojourning in
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Pain and Grace, where there is much pain, much more grace doth abound. It is day 7 and I am doing so well. My muscles are so sore because they are finally being used which is a miracle. They are waking up and working hard for the first time in years. Before I could only
1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3: And he shall be like a tree
This past Sunday, we drove up to where it all began. The day that we promised to love one another for the rest of our days. Mark and I were married in this little chapel in Door County 15 years ago this month. I saw the chapel while studying at Lawrence University. It was hand
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With joy I proclaim that we have not won this battle we were fighting for the past four years. It is with joy because joy is something that NO ONE can take away. Joy in trials is something that no one but a child of God could understand or know. I know that I am
The photo above is of Miles and I. I was hiking up a cliff holding my baby boy. My, has time gone by! Miles is nearly 14 years old. I took care of 5 little ones all by myself most of the time when my husband was out earning a living. I would take my
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David Yutzy is an Amish man about 70 years old or around that, I would say. About 3 years ago, Debi Pearl assisted me on a trip to Mexico for stem cell treatments. She was my wheelchair pusher, my third arm, and my faithful confidant. One fine misty Mexico morning, Debi took my arm and
Nothing in life is all Cake and Pie. Sometimes you can have the cake but never get to eat it. Life is bitter sweet, some things are hard to swallow. The trick is to make sweet lemonade with those sour, sour, lemons. So many times when I write here I try to find all the
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