Copperswife

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  • A Time For Praise and A Time For Prayer

    So many of you have been so diligent to pray!  My friend Lisa, who was on bed rest for the better part of 2 1/2 months to delay the early arrival of her baby, has given birth to a beautiful baby girl!!  For those of you keeping score, the count in their family is now…

  • Slow Cooked Chili – Fast, Easy and Delicious!

    While this may not be the recipe for chili connoisseurs, it’s definitely the chili recipe for a busy family! My husband particularly likes this recipe, too, so all the better. It’s got enough kick to be called chili, yet isn’t too spicy for my little guy. Or for me. I’m such a lightweight these days when it comes…

  • Menu For A Busy Household

    My home has been a bee hive of activity for the last week or two.  It will continue for another week, at least, before settling back to normalcy.  I think.  I hope!  My schoolroom is in sheer chaos.  Before any bookcases could be moved, all of the books had to be taken off the shelves. …

  • Looking Well….

         I’ve been incredibly busy about my home and homeschool this week, looking well to the ways of my household.  I’ve been so busy, in fact, that I don’t think I’ve taken a single picture, which is why I wasn’t able to join my daughters as they were quiet this week.      Please do continue…

  • Urgent Prayer Requested

          Many of you remember that I asked that you pray for our friend, Eric, a few weeks ago.  Eric is once again in very critical condition, and his condition/illness continues to baffle the doctors.  Please pray that the Lord would spare Eric’s life, that He would continue to strengthen Eric’s wife, Heather, and that…

  • Jealous Of My Time – Zealous For My Family

         I have finished, or just about, all of the projects I mentioned last week.  I spent hours, and literally the entire day Saturday, working on planning out the next few months of our homeschool year.  As I’ve mentioned before, we don’t use a packaged or pre-written curriculum, and we use living books, for the most…

  • Book Review: Creating a SenseSational Home

    I’ve read this book, I think, about six times now, and it always inspires me.  In her book, Creating a SenseSational Home, Terry Willits encourages homemakers to decorate and care for their homes remembering that God has given us five senses.  Too many times we tend to think of decorating our homes to be visually…

  • This Week’s Menu

         I’m still working away at my list of projects.  Thanks in very large part to Dani, I made some great strides on Saturday.  In fact, one of the things that she did for me was to put together this week’s menu.  Thanks, Dani!      We have a birthday this week.  Wednesday.  Family will be…

  • Because….A Practical Look at Scheduled Homemaking

         I schedule my homemaking.  I think most folks understand that that means that I do certain tasks about my home on certain days, or during certain weeks.  I’ve begun to lay that scheduling system out, as the Lord has provided the time for me to do so, on my Copperswife web site.  There has been some…

  • The Quiet of the Morning

    While I’m waiting for the tea kettle to bring the cold, cold water from our well to a boil, I load the woodstove and start our fire.  The house is cold.  I can hear the ticking of both the grandfather clock and the lovely, very old, family clock.  The ticking of the clocks is really the only discernible…

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