Copperswife

Month: August 2006

  • Pattern Tracing Fabric

    Pattern Tracing Fabric – Do you know about this stuff?  I thought everyone did, but when I last bought it at the JoAnn Super Store the cutting lady didn’t know what it was.  This post is for those of you who sew and don’t know about this wonderful stuff. Pattern tracing fabric enables you to make […]

  • Customer Service (Old-Fashioned Pleasures)

         The customer is always right. Customer satisfaction. Quality is job one. Our customers come first.   Are these advertising promises all a thing of the past?? Is there such a thing as really good customer service any more, or is it an old-fashioned pleasure gone forever?? Copper and I have had more opportunities than normal […]

  • Monday Morning Thoughts About Our Children

         Several things bubbling through my brain this morning.  I hope all of you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed a restful Sunday after church.  We did!!      First of all, for those of you who write your own blogs, and who share about your families there, I would like to issue a strong caution.  […]

  • Anniversary Re-Cap

    Thank you all for your lovely anniversary wishes sent our way.  We had a fabulous evening!  Copper surprised me by coming home a few hours early from work with two dozen red roses in his hand and instructions to be ready to go by 6:15! Yikes!!!  Ladies, my husband works on Saturdays and doesn’t get […]

  • Do I Hear Drums?

      Today is Saturday.  Twenty-eight years ago today was also a Saturday. I was planning on sleeping in a bit that morning. My mom, however, had a different idea.  “Get up. Get dressed.”  “Oh.  And brush your hair.”.   I wasn’t quite sure why my leisurely morning was being disrupted, and I’m sure I mumbled at […]

  • Old Country Roses China (Favorite Things Friday)

    My mom was a simple woman. She was born in 1920 and raised during very hard times in the mid-west. Her family moved from Kansas to Texas during a very bitter winter and she remembered, vividly, that her dog had to ride on the car’s running boards in a snow storm after her father offered […]

  • It’s All About Discipleship

         Homeschooling is not about academics.  Did you hear me? Homeschooling is NOT about academics.  Homeschooling is about discipleship.  It’s about training your children in the ways of the Lord.  It’s about instruction in righteousness.  It’s about raising a generation that will honor Christ with their lives.      I know that’s not what your parents […]

  • The Homemaker’s Journal (The Homemaker’s Servants)

      Daily Planner. Day Runner. Homemaker’s Journal. Mom’s Brain (one of my favorites!).  All these terms refer to the same Homemaker’s Servant – the Planner.  A lot has been written in magazines and on the web in the last few months about this servant.  However, I’ve not seen any that feature the computer.  That’s always […]

  • Bliss!

  • So Much To Share

    I have so many things I’m wanting to share with you all, but today is just…well….nuts!!!  I do want to welcome all of you that are new to reading my blog.  I hope you find encouragement here.  I also want to apologize to those of you who have subscribed for the “instant upates”!  Oh, my!!  As […]