Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

     The everyday necessities.  Sometimes they take over a day, but they are needful things.  We had a pretty good day yesterday, reclaiming much of our normal routines for homeschooling and home.  However, this morning, several things around our little homestead required some T.L.C. and so that’s what we’ve been about.      The chickens needed…

A few years ago I found a few snowmen at an after-Christmas sale.  They were white with pretty light blue accents.  I really had never looked at including snowmen in my Christmas decorating, but these fellas just really appealed to me.  Since they were 75% off, I splurged and brought them home.  I put them…

     We had a lovely, quiet New Year’s Eve celebration at home, just the five of us.  It was relaxing and wonderful.  New Year’s Day was spent taking down, wrapping and storing away all of our Christmas decorations.  It was a busy day, but it’s nice to have the house, more or less, back to…

We had a lovely, quiet New Year’s Eve celebration at home, just the five of us.  It was relaxing and wonderful.  New Year’s Day was spent taking down, wrapping and storing away all of our Christmas decorations.  It was a busy day, but it’s nice to have the house, more or less, back to normal. …

I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions.  Not any more.  I used to make them all the time.  Talk about setting myself up for failure!!! If it is your custom to make resolutions, then I wish you the best in your endeavors. I found some interesting information concerning New Year’s resolutions at wikipedia that…

Okay, let’s face it.  When life hands you a bunch of lemons, you have a choice to make.  You can bite right into that tart fruit, make a horrid face and then complain about it.  On the other hand, you can squeeze the juice from the lemons, add a bit of water, ice and sugar…

I want to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas.  I hope that the next few days will find you all sharing in the warmth and love of family and friends.  Hug your babies.  Read them a lovely picture book.  Be sure they know the story of our Savior’s…

Over the years I have enjoyed buying an assortment of Christmas trees.  We enjoy having a decorated tree in all of the rooms in our home.  I shared a picture of our big, family tree in an earlier post.  Today I’ll show you the others. This little silver tree is at the command center (the…

Here are some pictures of my Christmas village.  My mom bought me a few pieces to start my own village in the early 1990’s, but before I really had much of my own, my mom passed away and left me hers!  I’ve never added to her set, and I doubt that I ever will.  I…

About 20 years ago, Copper and I bought a string of  Christmas bell ringers.  We hung them proudly on our Christmas tree that year, and thought we’d enjoy many evenings of listening to them play through their repertoire of about 30 Christmas songs.  Wrong. Every time the bell ringers would play, our poor dogs would howl…