Month: February 2007

Melody asked a good question about knives in the comments of  the travel tissue post, and a further comment she made about buying her knives at yard sales got me thinking….. I decided that a follow up post on knives would be a good idea. The knives that I own and love, that I know […]

We were blessed with another lamb on Tuesday!  A single birth this time (twins are the norm), but this little guy is big!!!  The new lamb and his mother are in the foreground of this picture, and our twin Valentine’s Day lambs and their mother are just to the left.  The Tuesday lamb is as […]

Copper sat down to sharpen a couple of my knives this morning, and it occurred to me how valuable a good,sharp kitchen knife can be.  A good quality kitchen knife is a good investment.  The majority of my knives are over 28 years old.  My favorite knife is probably closer to 50 years old!!  All of […]

“Everyone is sick!”  That is exactly what the nurse practitioner told me Saturday afternoon.  That certainly seems to be the case in my own family.  My thirteen year old has a terrible cold, complete with head ache and burning eyes.  The eight year old has been sick, off and on, for almost a month.  I […]

Since I painted my dining area wall red, the red roses I’ve kept in my old scale have not been quite as pretty.  In fact, the red roses against the red wall were driving Dani nuts!  I bought the roses last year a week or so after Valentine’s Day for 90% off the $4.99 price […]

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Before I begin, I want to tell you that I had made up my mind to not like this book.  I don’t know why. Perhaps I was put off by the fact that the author is a single, younger woman. That certainly smacks of pride now, doesn’t it?  Ugly, but I’m trying to be honest. […]

My children are not predictable.  I would venture to say that your children are not predictable either.  Even the best behaved children will disobey their parents on occasion.  We should never be surprised by this, of course, because our children were born into sin, just as we were.  We all sin by our disobedience, and […]

I was in town yesterday for a doctor’s appointment, and decided to stop by our local take & bake pizza joint for a fun Valentine’s dinner for the kids.  Of course, this particular pizza joint is in the same parking lot as my favorite thrift store.  This is an “upscale” thrift store (they are picky […]

Happy Valentine’s Day!  I hope you are all finding plenty of time to enjoy the company of all of those you hold dear.  Copper is working today, and since his shifts are 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., he took me out for dinner last night.  We had a lovely, quiet dinner and didn’t have to […]