“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 […]
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -Henry James Portrait of a Lady {a “new” to us teapot, my sweet husband brought home last night} Sitting together in the evening, after the busy-ness of dinner time, cleanup, bed time baths and barn chores […]
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 […]
“Society is giving more and more entertainment to children that is adult planned … it actually robs them of what childhood means. That is spoiling them. I always thought letting children be children to mean ‘preserving their innocence, wonder and enthusiasm’. Yet today, we begin when they are babies to dull that fresh eagerness with […]
