Forever Frugal – Little Things Add Up
A wonderful lesson is resourcefulness.
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Do Your Children Work Too Hard?
Am I raising my children to whine about some work load they have, or am I raising them to delight in being used up for Him? Am I teaching them that “to save your life you must lose it”? Am I reading about and pointing to the heroes of the faith for them to emulate? Am I te
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Calling Young Film Makers
If you have a child that has a bend towards film making, here is a great opportunity to put their creativity into action! The Pritchett family are very dear friends of ours...and they have a house full of creative folks!!! Plants and Pillars Productions Get the video camera out, write a gre
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Then, then my daughters…
Here is a little twist on Kipling's poem If, written by Olivia: If you can never marry, see all your dreams rearranged, and still remain pure, If you can plan and plot and it all be overturned at a moments notice, and still submit joyfully, If you can slave over a dinner all day on
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Apprenticeship
Everything requires training which means that nothing is immediate or effort-free. In early America most people learned their family's trade or they participated in an apprenticeship. Boys would live and work with a master craftsman for at least four to five years. Once the appre
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Lots of Guy Stuff!
The first time I heard this poem was when Charles Heston read it on the radio. His incredible manly voice drew me in; but even more so, the virtue of this poem goes to the core of what manhood is! IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you
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Before He Cleaves
Before you read any further I want to make clear this is just a list that we are aiming for, as is the list for our daughters. This list may change a little as time goes on. Our only true requirements for our children to receive our blessing on their marriage is that they and their spouse be C
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Work spares us from three evils:
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. ...make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands...so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need. Thessalonians 4:11, 12
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Before We Give Our Daughters in Marriage
We all want to give our children a good start in life and that includes the skills and character they will need for marriage and family life. A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10 The normative is that most women will get marrie
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
This is worth taking the time to listen to with an open mind! Here are a few quotes from the clip that really stuck out to me: "Creativity is as important as literacy." "If you are not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original." "The university has designed the system
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Recycled Houses???
I LOVE THIS! Even if this is not how you would build/decorate your home, you have to appreciate his view on life! His view of teaching others skills, especially to the working poor (note he says "WORKING poor"). And if we will be completely honest, many (not all) people that live in huge, l
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When People Work Together
Labor: to exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort : work Something more than a finished task happens when people work together. They have a special relationship that cannot be shared by others because they are working toward a common goal. This relati
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Success Comes Before Work
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. ~Vince Lombardi I love this quote! It's all about diligence!!! ~~~~ It's OK to fail, it's not OK to quit!
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Integrity is Not a Gift
Integrity is not a gift. It is a reward of discipline, honesty, consistency and doing what is right no matter the cost. ~Unknown How true this is!!! Integrity doesn't just happen. Integrity only happens as we make choices each day, choices to be: honest kind to everyone -
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Could You Survive Frontier House?
A while back we watched Frontier House, a PBS series about 3 families that go back in time to 1883 Montana. Most of the people in this series were not equipped skill wise to live off the grid and on the land. I wish I could find a video clip of the teen daughters when they wer
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Denim Projects – Using Those Old Jeans
A great way to get you or your kiddos some sewing practice and not spend a bunch of money on fabric would be to use what you have around the house; perhaps some old sheets or skirts that are not being used anymore. Or even better yet, how about using up those old jeans and denim shirts that
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Start Making Your List
Now that the gardening is over for the most part, and cool weather is settling in, it is time to be working on some indoor projects; perhaps some sewing projects. How about making a list of people you can make gifts for rather than buying gifts? Napkins made earlier th
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A Hen House on Wheels
Here is a hen house on wheels that Olivia requested her dad make. Now to get the girl some chickens! He has build 4 of these for friends, using this pattern, but decided to design his own to make it easier to move.
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Are You Preparing Your Children for Life?
I guess it is because the bulk of my parenting (as far as child training goes) is coming down to it's last few years that I realize so much that I wish I'd known when I was younger!!! Most of us are not taught any parenting skills as we grow up, let alone marriage skills, other than wh
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