Category Archives: Homemade is Best

Provision Room Series: {Making your Own Mixes} Part III

  As a third installment in the Provision Room series, we will talk about making your own mixes and spices for the pantry. I know we have all been often tempted to purchase readily made spice mixes at the grocery store. Even worse are the pre-packaged cake and muffin mixes. They are easily used and […]

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The Provision Room Series {part II: The Pantry}

  “Our willingness to be free of the responsibility of preparing daily bread has now put the control of what we feed our families into the hands of huge food companies who have one goal in mind – money. As we have delegated the responsibility of milling grain and baking bread to others, it has […]

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Embracing a Life of {Do-Overs}

    The hot tea was poured and the strawberry apple pie was cooling on the counter,  warm from the oven. My dear friend-in-motherhood sipped her tea and sighed. She began to tell me that she finds her days of being a mother, wife, homemaker and homeschooler tedious, frustrating and full of do-overs. You know […]

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Baby Goats {update}

Nearly a week has passed since our sweet triplet kids goats were born. We ended up bringing the two weakest goats inside to monitor them closely, warm them up during the first 48 hours and feed them some medicine that we hoped would help them become stronger.   Of course, a few hugs and warm […]

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It’s a Marshmallow World 💕

  “It’s a marshmallow world in the winter When the snow comes to cover the ground It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day I wait for it the whole year round. It’s a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts Take a walk with your favorite girl It’s a sugar date, what if spring […]

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