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Posted in making home, simple living on Mar 16th, 2010
One of the questions I have been asked often is what we are doing now to prepare for when we start our family.
We believe that I have been called to be a teacher right now. This is not my first choice; if I could have my way, we would have little ones of our [...]
Posted in making home, simple living on Mar 11th, 2010
One of the ways that I am able to manage any semblance of order around my house is to take time to plan. Sometime over the weekend, usually on a Sunday afternoon, I prepare for the week. This may include any or all of the following tasks:
1. look up meal plan from monthly plan and [...]
Posted in making home, natural, green, & healthy on Jan 12th, 2010
We’ve been buried under snow for weeks! There have been several school days canceled because of snow. There has been lots of shoveling. Lots of heater running. And lots of cold cold air!
That’s when I am thankful for the seed catalogs that arrived in early January! I’ve been having fun thinking about planting flower [...]
Posted in making home, simple living on Nov 20th, 2009
1. Don’t go shopping and if you do have specific goals for your trip. The less you are in the stores where advertising and the enticement of “stuff” will be able to affect you. Most likely we don’t need the new things that we see. When we go shopping we go with a purpose in [...]
Posted in making home on Nov 18th, 2009
Seems an odd thing to post, since we had our first snow yesterday. But winter is a great time to think about and work on preparations for the hot season again …
When we moved into our house, we hung black curtains on the sliding doors to our back deck. We chose black because it [...]