Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

     “Look outward and be distressed.  Look inward and be depressed.  Look upward and be at rest.” Corrie ten Boom   God bless you as you look well to the ways of your household.Proverbs 31:27 Remember to pray for Karen!

I’m making some fairly good progress on getting my projects all finished before Christmas.  It’s beginning to look do-able, but just barely. If I’m able to finish it all up, I’ll have quite a few pictures to show you.  After Christmas, of course. I did finish up another apron for our home this week.  This…

Copper and I started out housekeeping, as they used to say, very modestly.  In  fact, our first few Christmases were pretty sparse.  When Copper’s dad re-married in 1983, his bride, Meg, gifted us with a cute little plastic Nativity set.  Corin was three years old and Dani was a new born, so a plastic set was…

In the last 18 years I’ve had homeschooling holiday seasons that have run the  gamut from stressed to the max, to laid back fun and joyful.  I found myself, in the wee dark hours of last night (3:15 a.m. PST for anyone who is detail oriented), tossing and turning fitfully over the upcoming holidays and…

Given Murphy’s Law, I think that needing three days to deck the halls isn’t too bad.  We had two trips to town for more lights.  Copper got most of the outside lights up before dark last night, but needed today to finish.  We had rounded up a few too many times in calculating how many…

Whew!!!  I’m tired!  We’ve been going nonstop, pretty much, since Thanksgiving Day.  As I’ve already mentioned, I spent the day Friday sewing.  All day.  Saturday was spent with the normal all day laundry routine, along with our normal Sunday preparations, and more sewing.  Monday morning we packed up all of the fall decorations, and Copper…

I certainly hope that everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day.  We certainly did.  Copper and all of the children went to visit Grandma Nora (103), while I stayed home to prepare our portion of the Thanksgiving meal.  Mid-afternoon found us heading to Copper’s brother’s house and joining about 20 others for a wonderful evening of…

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day.  I’m sure most of you are busy preparing for the holiday.  We are, too.  I’ll be back on Saturday with a post sharing some of my (hopefully!) completed projects.  Until then, have a blessed Thanksgiving Day.  

We eat our meals in an area which adjoins our kitchen as well as our living room.  I’ve wanted to give this area a bit of an update for awhile now.  There’s no better way to perk up a room than with some paint!  The budget, however, was not ready to accommodate a room re-do;…

Today was the day that Copper and I headed to town to do our every-two-week’s shopping.  Man, everywhere we went was a zoo!!  We sort of expected it, with Thanksgiving just a few days away, but it was still craziness.  We came home at almost 7:00 p.m., to a lovely supper of piping hot baked…