Copperswife

Tag: looking well

  • This Week’s Menu

              Our recent financial overhaul has prompted me to get back on the Menu Planning Bandwagon! Yee haw! I’ve found that careful menu planning reaps huge rewards at the grocery store check out, especially when I plan for all three of our daily meals, snacks and any “goodies” we’ll be baking during the week.…

  • Copper’s Day Off

     How does a man who worked seventy-two hours in the last week spend his first at-home day off?     He works all day with his wife on a major overhaul of the household finances.     I love that man!   God bless you as you look well to the ways of your household!Proverbs 31:27 

  • Little Victories That Banish the Gloom

    The Sacramento Valley in California, the valley that I’ve called home for all of my 54 years, is known for its dense, winter fog. It’s cold, wet and generally miserable. Driving can be treacherous. This evening, in fifteen short minutes, the fog fell and became quite dense, causing our sheep to vanish from sight.  It’s…

  • Why I Wrote What I Wrote

    Remember the post I wrote the other day, the one about The Humble Washer and Honoring Your Husband?  I reminded you of Proverbs 31:12 and mentioned that our poor housekeeping can harm our husbands by harming their reputations.  I neglected to mention Proverbs 31:23: “Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among…

  • Incremental Approach to Catching Up – OR – How Copper’s Wife Digs Herself Out of a Hole

    What happens when you have neglected your household schedule for too long and one, or more, jobs has become too big to manage?   Even when you have been faithful to your household routine, sometimes a job gets away from you.  There are ways to catch up in even these circumstances.  First of all, don’t give…

  • A Different Kind of Procrastination

    We all procrastinate.  Some of us are worse than others, I suppose; but we all do it.  Not wanting to make that phone call.  Not wanting to tend to that dreaded chore.  Waiting to iron the clothes until the pile outgrows the laundry basket (that’s me – guilty as charged!) Lately, though, I’ve noticed more and…

  • The Homemaker’s Servants – The Timer

    Yep, just your everyday, run-of-the-mill, timer!!  This little device is my constant companion each and every day (save Sunday).  We have quite a love-hate relationship going, my timer and I. I use it for several purposes throughout my day.  Here’s a sampling: I have a LOT of watering to do on our property here!  Copper…