{This might be a controversial post but it has been pressing on my heart for quite a while now. I write this with a grace-tipped pen with hopes that it may strike a chord in someone’s heart, as well.} “I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as […]
… Speaking of flower beds, all along the border of one of my gardens is a cluster of mint. It is just lovely. This weekend, the girls and I collected some as I want to dry some for tea for the winter (but sadly, just after I harvested some mint, a roaring lawn mower made […]
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. Colossians 3:23 The large canning pot is bubbling away, sealing up the 24 jars of jelly I have just made on this warm afternoon. Little ones are napping & the older girls are out with the animals, playing Sacagawea […]
A friend was over, dropping her children off to play for a while and, as the girls ran off to play in the summer heat, she quickly said “Avoid the sun, girls!” She turned to me and explained how she had read how bad sunscreen is for your health and she was hesitant to put […]
“A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry western hills and whistling through the poplars. One clear star hung above the orchard and the fireflies were fitting over in Lovers’ Lane…” -Anne of Green Gables It is July. Sweet July. So hot and carefree. Sweltering days […]
