Month: January 2007
Homemaking
Motherhood
mo betah mothering
So, I’m still going through our home… regathering, resorting, redistributing, refusing and recycling. But the one thing I don’t want to spend anymore time on is rearranging the same stuff – trying to figure out how to keep the same stuff I still won’t need later. It’s been good… I’m thinking that at the end […]...
Homemaking
Potpourri
Life’s a Rewrite
I’m sitting here this morning thinking of ways we used to do things and ways we do them now. Sort of a rewrite. I stayed up a little late (a little late for lately, not a little late for times past – that would’ve been *really* late) last night as I had totally forgotten the […]...
Potpourri
mommylife birthday
It’s birthday celebration time… and as each year passes the blessings and benefits multiply! Mommylife is celebrating two years! I assure you, this is no toddler! Two years of blogging with the experience of two dozen lifetimes at least. So… happy birthday mommylife… with love and many blessings to Barbara....
Motherhood
Potpourri
It takes about this long…
You know… I am finally getting why children take so long to grow up. It’s mothers who need about this long to get the hang of the deal. And then when we get the hang of the deal, we get calls or letters like this: Well, we finally got here.. the car is actually looking […]...
Devotionals
Family
Potpourri
the way of parenting
So this morning I’m looking out at the blanket of fresh snow over the fields. I think of the beauty of it all and think how amazing it is that it covers all the flaws… the dirt and weeds, the uneven spots… And then I think of character… the character training in children. The pointing […]...
Potpourri
buggy blog
I don’t know what’s going on with this blog… so… unless it really changes, maybe I’ll just post things on my site. This one’s pretty buggy....
Potpourri
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” 1Timothy 4.1-2...
Potpourri
the companion journal
This is the companion Journal to The Welcome Home Blog thoughts and slices of life between sips of coffee....
Motherhood
Potpourri
motherhood means dying to self
I’m often surprised at the events or changes each season brings. Sort of like knowing that snow’s coming but not realizing how cold it will feel or how distracting it will be. Bcz this isn’t the first time or the second or the third… I knew it would be hard to say another goodbye-for-now to […]...