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Your Life at Home

“Love your husband, love your children.  Stay home. That’s not an idea I came up with out of my head. That’s from Titus 2. Older women are to teach, encourage, do all that they possibly can to help the younger women to do these things. My objective is to simply point you back to the Word […]

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Hope is in the Mud

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ~M. Sarton     Fifty empty holes, lining the picket fence of our front yard, lay ahead of me and my mini crew. Fifty holes dug out […]

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Build Up Your Home Library {The Lilac Library}

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”  – Cicero   One of the best words of advice in my motherhood and homeschooling journey was to build up your own home library.  In a world of every changing politics and morals and seeing history literally being erased or changed, a […]

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A Christian Home

In a world of darkness, let us be the light. We’re certainly not perfect … but we are aiming for this: “O give us homes built firm upon the Saviour, Where Christ is Head, and Counsellor and Guide; Where ev’ry child is taught His love and favor And gives his heart to Christ, the crucified: […]

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A Little Life

“The mother has then so much in her power that she can not only determine to a great extend what kind of infancy the child shall have, but also whether her own duties therein shall be heavy or light.   {preparing dinner before 8:30 a.m. in the morning; this daily habit makes my day run […]

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