Almanzo ate four large helpings of apples ’n’ onions fried together. He ate roast beef and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes and creamed carrots and boiled turnips, and countless slices of buttered bread with crab-apple jelly. ‘It takes a great deal to feed a growing boy,’ Mother said. -Farmer Boy What’s […]
“The cellar began to have its winter smell of apples and preserves. After all the perfect apples had been picked, Almanzo and Royal could shake the trees. They shook the trees with all their might, and the apples came rattling down like hail. They picked them up and threw them into the wagon. These were […]
Lucia, my 8-year-old daughter, read this quote to me this week as it was part of her copywork for school. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt Right away, I copied it onto our chalkboard to read daily. What a fabulous piece of advice! So often we long for […]
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 Most every morning, when my feet hit the cool floor of our bedroom and I slip quietly downstairs for that lovely first cup of coffee, my heart is full of […]
I love to get up early before the household wakes. Mornings are busy, there is always something that needs to be tended, laundry to hang on the line, breakfast to serve and clean up, and schooling to begin. In order to start the day properly, I have been waking up before everyone to have some […]
