Category Archives: Beauty
Why We Can’t Live With Chaos
The last week or so had been rough! Not only has Daisy turned into a major chaos maker, as she conquers the task of mobility, but our renovation project finished and I’ve been trying to put the basement back … Continue reading
A Little Reminder
One of the readings on Sunday was from Colossians Chapter Three. Put on then, as God?s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,?forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each … Continue reading
Pleasant Places
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me. Psalm 16:6 (NASB) This first summer in New England continues to amaze and delight me. Warm, but not hot and humid days, cool nights, … Continue reading
Encouraging An Interest You Don’t Share (and that makes a mess!)
Mouse is creative in the artistic sense. She loves to make things to pretty up the house. She cares about clothes and what looks “cute”. She wants lotions and soaps that smell nice. She also loves bones,the workings of the … Continue reading
Spring Has Sprung! And Mouse Has Grown….
Participating in the Seasonal Skirt Blog Hop sponsored by To The Moon and Back! It has finally gotten warm here in Massachusetts and that means that Mouse and I are changing over our wardrobes! Time to pack away the corduroy … Continue reading
Too Lovely For Indoors
We played hooky a bunch this week. The weather finally got warm enough to be really nice (and then in typical Virginia fashion got hot and humid!). The children played and played. We went to a church softball game, had … Continue reading
A Quick And Easy Dress For Mouse (Tutorial)
Mouse keeps growing and growing and I’m left scrambling to keep her in dresses ( it doesn’t help that she is a “full steam ahead” kind of a kid and it hard on clothes)! The other week I went fabric … Continue reading
Signs of Spring!
Right about this time of year, I am ready to start planting things. Generally the weather tantalizes me with a few nice days and then returns to winter grey and cold. When that happened this year I decided to do … Continue reading
The Beauty of Love
Just a few little thoughts from the preaching today: When we act are we acting to pass on the full measure of the mercy we have received? Are we obeying out of a sense of duty or out of the … Continue reading
Almost Finished!
It’s the little things that are holding me up now. The “where do I put this?” stuff that doesn’t really fit into any of the existing categories, but I still need to keep around. Every room has been gone through, … Continue reading