We’re making some changes around here. Calculating our cost for certain meals was part of the motivation, and hubby’s recent weight loss is another. We’ve made some short-term changes in celebration of the changing seasons that we want to continue with: we are enjoying the return of reasonable prices on fresh produce and [...]
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We spent a good half of the afternoon yesterday making this movie.
To those of you who have seen A Child’s Story part 1 this story has no connection to the old one.
It’s just the second movie in our series starring Rachie.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books
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posted by Lydia
Poetry from Treasure Island:
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold.
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
-So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studios youth one no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of [...]
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I don’t know history. At least, not as well as I should. As I read through Psalms, I have to conclude that we let ourselves off the hook far too easily. If we know the names and some of the major accomplishments of the founding fathers of our nations; if we know [...]
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Rejoice with me. I won’t go into detail, but we just found a blessing left for us by God over a year ago - a great and unexpected blessing left by Him in a place we simply never thought to look. A very real and tangible blessing to be used for a very [...]
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My post about self-consciously letting God determine our family size stirred up some wonderful thought-provoking comments on both sides of the issue.
Let me clear up a couple of possible misunderstandings:
We don’t generally use the Quiverfull label because we feel that this way of life represents a clear Biblical pattern. We don’t think of ourselves [...]
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Posted by: Deanna
This is me when I was really small and stupid.
My Grandmother had told me not to eat the green tomatoes.
Did I listen? No.
I thought to myself, “The only reason Grandma would say that is if the green ones were the best ones, and therefore I am missing out on something if I don’t [...]
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My friend MamaArcher started a QuiverFull Blogroll recently and would like members to post about their own Quiverfull Journey. My husband is going to post about the journey itself; I would like to ramble a bit about being here.
Let me start by saying that I understand that God gives some families fewer children. [...]
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Does anyone know much about Cash Crate? I tried it out today and am still trying to make up my mind about it. My time was divided, as usual, but I estimate that I spent around 45 minutes earning $15. That seems like a good return on my time, and I think [...]
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Our household has recently gone crazy over bananas, thanks in large to The Boy. That kid will eat 3 bananas before breakfast and 3 more over the course of the day - in addition to 3 hearty meals and a snack here and there. That boy can eat. We have begun to [...]
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HT to Amazing Graze Farm for tipping us off about tomorrow’s total eclipse of the moon. Read about it here, then go check your weather forecast. We’re expecting a mostly cloudy evening, but we haven’t given up yet. Maybe God wants us to to see this miracle of His, and maybe it’s not for us. [...]
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Last night Kaitlyn, Lydia, and I slept out on our deck.
Not particularly brave or crazy in and of itself,
except that it got down to 30 degrees last night.
The picture is of a certain lazy person who stayed in bed latest and in case you didn’t notice the pallet consists of a grand total of [...]
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After months of managing the Frugal Blogroll and following Crystal’s Money Saving Moms, I finally decided to jump on the CVS/Walgreen’s Super Shopper bandwagon. I had heard enough of people spending fourteen cents on $76 worth of toiletries and getting another $45 in rebates. With 10 people in our house we could really [...]
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Look, the picture on the right is Mom on her wedding day.
The one on the left is me fifteen years later wearing the same dress.
Lord willing, in a couple of years I’ll be wearing my own wedding dress and fifteen years after that, hopefully I’ll have at least eight kids.
Maybe I’ll even be looking [...]
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I love being pregnant. In spite of the nausea, the aches, the creaking joints, the crazy blood sugar crashes, and all the accompanying discomforts, there is an undeniable wonder in carrying a child. I am amazed at every kick, and I can hardly believe that we have a new child - one that we haven’t [...]
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