Posted in Family Fun, Frugality on February 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For this week’s Frugal Friday, I thought I’d put a few questions out there for response from my dear readers. I would love to have a conversation about this with other like-minded individuals, but since there aren’t many real like-minded individuals in our social circle, I’m turning to you, my cyber-friends.
Steady Eddie and I do not [...]
Posted in Education, Faith, Family Fun, Works for Me Wednesday on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve visited my blog before, you may know that my family is working on a goal of learning more of God’s word this year. Our first family memorization challenge was Psalm 1, and I am proud to report that we completed it in about three weeks. I was thinking about how I love to hear my little [...]
Posted in Education, Faith, Family Fun on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow! My girls really surprised me by how quickly they learned our first challenge chapter! After about three weeks, Lulu knows Psalm 1 cold, and Louise can say it with a little prompting at verse changes. I am so proud of them and thankful that this is something they seem to enjoy doing. We started learning [...]
Posted in Family Fun on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Posted in Education, Faith, Family Fun, Works for Me Wednesday on January 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of our goals this year was to really begin incorporating God’s Word into our everyday lives more. The girls’ nana had already taught them several “stand alone” scriptures; both Lulu and Louise have quite a few in their repertoires already. I knew from this that the girls were capable and ready to learn even longer passages [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family Fun, Scrapbooking on January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I get sidetracked by all the cute things my girls say and do. Even with 200+ Christmas photos (from three years) to scrap, I still chose to do this single page (with one really unrelated photo, mind you) about Louise and her consistent prayer of “God Bless Mary and Joseph” that she started at Christmas [...]
Posted in Education, Faith, Family Fun on January 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to their nana, both of my girls already know several Bible verses. Lulu started learning them when she was old enough to really talk, and Louise did, too. Steady Eddie and I talked some time last year (really? Was it last year?) that we would like to work on scripture memorization together, but like so [...]
Posted in Faith, Family Fun on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
We had a rather low-key night tonight, which is what I really like. Our church is having a New Year’s Eve service, but since we have two little ones, we decided to forego it in lieu of an earlier bedtime. I cooked a big meal tonight of oven roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, English peas, and homemade [...]
Posted in Christmas, Crafts, Family Fun, In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on December 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The older I get, the most I love homemade things. I used to want my Christmas tree to look like one in a designer magazine, but now I prefer the sentimental, old ornaments and decorations. However, since my children are both still small, I don’t have many truly handmade ornaments. This year I decided to [...]
Posted in Family Fun, Frugality on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my entire life, both before marriage and after, my family has always had an artificial Christmas tree. Actually, I’m sure that if my mother were reading this, she would correct me by saying that we did have a live tree (that my daddy actually went into the woods to cut) when I was a [...]
