One aspect of being a mother and homemaker that brings me joy is finding ways to simply help our family – whether it be preparing meals for the freezer, canning produce, making jams or homemade medicines. Plantain is a common backyard weed – or a weed that will grow most anywhere, for that matter. If […]
“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson I love roses – what female could resist the charms of such a lovely flower? Alas, I do not love them enough to ask my husband to bring them home at a very costly expense neither […]
Years ago, it’s not something I ever thought that I would be serving at our dinner table … but people grow and change and learn to appreciate different things… and so, here I am, serving wild dandelion leaf salad, which we gathered together this afternoon, to my family tonight. Topped with diced tomatoes, carrots, pine […]
Little Lazarus had a fever a few days ago … it was his first (thankfully) and it was not severe, but enough to make him unhappy. Poor thing … I don’t think it was teething but perhaps it could have been. I have never had a baby teeth this early so I have my doubts […]
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Genesis 1:29 It did not start out this way. Throughout my […]
