Month: August 2006

  • Honoring The Head Of The Household

    Honoring the head of the house?  Huh?  I thought we were “thinking homsechool” today.  We are.  Honest! Do you, and your children, recognize your husband as the God-ordained head of your home?  Yes?  Good!  How do you show him honor in a real and tangible and DAILY manner?  What does your husband come home to?  […]

  • Marking Sewing Bobbins And Completed Projects

    Did you know that it is important that your upper threads and your bobbin threads match exactly??  I found this out the hard way several years ago.  I had some nice black Gutterman thread threaded onto my machine, and a black bobbin below.  My stitches were not right.  The upper and lower tensions were not in […]

  • This And That – Copper

         Thanks to all of you that prayed for my husband’s recent high blood pressure scare. His blood pressure has responded very well, and very quickly, to the medication.  He had it checked at work on Saturday and it was down very close to ideal range after just the first two doses of medication.  I’ve […]

  • Encouraging Words From G. K. Chesterton

         “How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about (arithmetic), and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?  How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?  No; a woman’s function is laborious because it is […]

  • Last Saturday In August

         It’s Saturday. And not just Saturday, but the last Saturday in August.  How did that happen??  I’m not sure.      Yesterday was not a particularly good day here.  I got a call from Copper mid-morning.  He told me that he had been having the nurses at work check his blood pressure lately.  For the […]

  • Harvest

         I know I said that we needed to remember to enjoy these last days (weeks, really) of summer.  I know I said we shouldn’t all be pining away for Fall (even though most of us would claim it as our all-time favorite season – myself included).  I know I should be heeding my own […]

  • A Good Laugh! (Favorite Things Friday)

         Is there anything better than laughing until your sides hurt??   Maybe.  But this morning I needed a good laugh over something just plain silly.  And this is.  Plain Silly.  But it did the trick!!  Laugh with me today, will ya?  I’ll share more tomorrow.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI (DISCLAIMER:  This link will take you to YouTube and while […]

  • Money Back On Everyday Purchases

         Want to receive money back for purchases you were going to make anyway??  Me, too!!!  I’m so thrilled that I discovered My Points awhile back!  In just a few short months, I’ve accumulated quite a few “points” that I am saving up to cash in for a gift card to …. Starbucks, Bath & […]

  • Homeschooling – What’s Really Required?

          Do you know what is required in your state for you to legally homeschool your children?  Have you checked the law for yourself, or are you basing your answer on what your support group leader told you?  Or your best friend’s sister?  Or, perish the thought, the principal of the public school you pulled […]

  • What’s A Good Read For One….

          …is NOT necessarily a good read for another.       Captain Kidd’s Cat,  by Robert Lawson, was such a fun read for the twelve year old a couple of years ago, I thought that the seven year old would enjoy it just as much.       However, during his afternoon school reading time yesterday, this is how […]