Month: March 2014
Potpourri
Recipes
THM
THM style Recipes
Trim Healthy Mama
THM ♥ mama’s recipes
It’s a beautiful day here! Sunshine always seems to change my outlook — sort of, no matter what I’ve got to do, if the day’s a sunny one, generally, my attitude is sunny, too! It’s taken me all these months of ‘working at’ the Trim Healthy Mama plan to...
THM
THM style Recipes
Trim Healthy Mama
THM = preparedness; sincerely.
NEW! TrimHealthyMama Online Store Many women are enjoying great success following the Trim Healthy Mama book & eating style or plan. But many women aren’t. I notice this many times as I read the different posts on the Facebook THM group “encouragement page” [my description] and the number of...
Faith
Family
marriage
Slices of Life
Someday an Heirloom Marriage
Someday an Heirloom Marriage by pamela spurling written year-2000 I pray as we sit here at the kitchen table, that what I share with you today will be a blessing to you and a blessing in your home—I pray it will maybe even change the way you look at...
Advanced Training Institute
ATI / IBLP
Homeschooling
my story
Wayward's
Blue & White
I love blue and white things. Blue is my favourite colour. It’s not my favourite mood, though I struggle with that one. Sometimes, a lot. Blue is my favourite for hydrangeas, dishes, gemstones, berries, skies and seas. And though I mostly prefer to wear pink and black now, navy...
Advanced Training Institute
ATI / IBLP
Potpourri
More ATI / IBLP Baggage & Freedom
A continuation of posts in a series of thoughts looking back on our life and experiences with the Advanced Training Institute and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (hereafter, ATI / IBLP)… I want to say at the outset, that it wasn’t all bad — ATI / IBLP —...
Advanced Training Institute
ATI / IBLP
Homeschooling
Potpourri
Unpacking The ATI / IBLP Baggage
What I’m writing about these days isn’t sensational and isn’t unique to me. It’s not isolated and it’s not rare — at least not in homeschool and/or conservative Christian circles. It’s probably going on all over the place to one degree or another. Most everyone who’s been caught up...
Advanced Training Institute
ATI / IBLP
The ATI-IBLP Mess
Every once in awhile there comes a stir on the internet about Bill Gothard or ATI (the Advanced Training Institute) or IBLP (the Institute in Basic Life Principles). Welp… things sure are a-stirring… and seem to have finally come to a point of boiling and bubbling over. If...
Advanced Training Institute
ATI / IBLP
ATI / IBLP Tangled Web
Consider the spider who spins a web and yet begins with no thread. My friend, Margaret, told me that a long time ago. I’ve considered it many times. I’ve considered other sorts of webs through the years, too. Webs of good intentions. Webs of ignorance. Webs of deceit. Webs...