Author Archives: Gigi

Little Lambs

{I’m so sorry for my long absence. My blog was disabled and it took quite a while for me – who is very behind the times, technically speaking – to figure out how to repair it. Thank you for your patience and for reaching out to me!}   Here is a little dream come true […]

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Making Soup {The Healthy Way}

“As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. When the wind turns cold, and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It’s time to start making soup again.”       It’s January and here in our part of the world, it’s in the middle of winter. Today, we are snowed […]

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Make Your Life Beautiful – Your Bedroom Retreat ꔛ♡ꔛ

“There’s nothing like staying home for real comfort.” -Jane Austen   One of the best words of wisdom I received as a young mother is to make your master bedroom a priority in cleanliness and comfort. While often the mother and wife focuses on the rest of the house – in particular, the kitchen – […]

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Hard Work Pays Off

“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” –Simon Sinek     As our seasons change over from harvesting to hiberating, our little tribe recently celebrated a little milestone in our family story. After five years of constructing fences, adding several gardens (flower […]

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The Change of Season: Drying Clothes Indoors

“It is not hard to enhance the mundane so that the ordinary becomes extraordinary and creativity pays dividends. Home should be the happiest place on earth.” ~Dorothy Kelley Patterson, The Christian Homemaker’s Handbook     Hello, dear friends and readers. It has been a long summer of not being able to access photos from my […]

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