“It is amazing how lovely common things become, if one only know how to look at them.” -Louise May Alcott When there is a need for me to go to a store and run an errand, I am always so happy to pull back into our driveway and return to our little home and […]
“Whatever parents may do for their children, they should at least make their childhood sunny and tender. Their young lives are so delicate that harshness may mar their beauty forever, and so sensitive that every influence that falls upon them leaves a trace, which grows into the character as a grace or blemish. A […]
“The homeliest tasks get beautiful if loving hands do them.” ~ Louisa May Alcott Our Ontario April has been cold, full of snow and ice, but … it is still SPRING … and warmer temperatures are coming soon! The cooler weather has not stopped us from doing some good ol’ fashioned SPRING CLEANING […]
The [Biblical] word household is “therapeia” in the Greek and means “attendance to medical needs, domestic, healing.” In other words, out homes should be homes of healing —healing the spirit, the soul, and the body. That’s why God ordained the home. It is an oasis from the storms of life, a sanctuary from […]
“The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.” – The American Woman’s Home, Harriet Beecher Stowe This morning, after lighting […]
