Author Archives: Gigi

The Gift of an Open Door {Part I}

“Hospitality is so much more than entertaining – so much more than menus and decorating and putting on a show. To me, it means organizing my life in such a way that there’s always room for one more, always an extra place at the table or an extra pillow and blanket, always a welcome for […]

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A New Chapter

For the first time, instead of posting about a new baby on the way … I’m writing about something just as exciting but in a different way …. the recent marriage of my daughter to her beloved!   Indeed, we have now celebrated a birth and a wedding in our home – and what a […]

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Your Children Need to be Outside

It’s June – and a glorious June it is!   I have a question for you, dear mother.  Are your children outside? It is very important to be out in nature and out of the house! Parents (mothers) need to get back to the good ol’ days where children play outside – especially in the […]

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The Journey of Motherhood

“I often look at my children and think of the line Emmerson wrote, ‘All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.’ To have a child is one of the greatest privileges a woman can ever know. Mothers are not necessarily made when the child is born. There […]

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It’s a Beautiful Life

“How can homemaking possibly be beautiful? Why, even the word “housewife” carries with it a drab, humdrum quality, doesn’t it? But, it isn’t so! The housewife’s profession is just about the most challenging in the world – and the most rewarding.       Her most important job is to be the very centre of […]

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