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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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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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. 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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...let's get down to the nitty-gritty of parenting. Having your child work along side you is such a great time to know your child in a way you normally wouldn't. When you have to tackle a task together (outside the normal make you bed kind of stuff), where you depend on each other to do
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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going. Ecclesiastes 9:10 We all have work to be doing, so let's do it will all our might!
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I try to read a chapter of Proverbs every morning. I'm thinking if I were to heed the truths in Proverbs more often I'd avoid a lot of heartache and frustration. :o) How easily I forget or reason out why to do what is contrary. In light of yesterday's post about Responsibility and not
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Finished a stack of crocheted dishcloths to have on hand for our online shop and for gifts. They are 100% cotton. These were all made in about 2 weeks while watching a movie or visiting. I enjoy keeping my hands busy. Learn How to Crochet DVD &nb
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Character is built from the inside out. Remember the home has the strongest influence: school and church only supplement that. Your own behavior is the strongest influence your child has. The way to keep out evil is to fill the mind and the time with wholesome, interesting thou
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We have had rain just about everyday the past week which has caused the gardens to really thrive! The only thing is with all that thriving comes WEEDS! Hopefully today we will get out there and pull the unwanted roots that will choke out what is intended to be used for US to thrive! The las
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such conseq
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Emma has a puppy that she is trying to train, he is a golden retriever. He is ALL PUPPY! Our yard stays a mess, he's dug out flower pots, torments the cats and he keeps retrieving toys from the neighbors yard to our yard...funny, but not funny! Last week Emma caught him pestering the c
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of honest workers." Helen Keller I love this quote by Helen Keller. Helen Keller was truly an amazing woman. Her life was a life of true diligence. The huge hurdles
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"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure." Montteville Let's be diligent to teach our children that work is a good thing, even a hard, nasty task can be somewhat enjoyable if we have a good attitude.There are many
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 The first time I heard someone preach about this verse they used it in context of knowing the state of your children's hearts. Then last weekend we attended a Bible study
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Living as a family is not always easy, in fact it is the one institution that you will have to die to your selfishness the most, well other than your relationship with Christ. The second greatest commandment is that we LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR! Our closest neighbors are the ones that live under
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In our home Jeff is an early bird, a SERIOUS early bird! The rest of us, well...we're not! :o) My goal is to have everyone up and moving by 7-7:30. During the summer it is usually earlier because the work needs to be done before it gets too hot. I am thankful that my sweet husband al
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When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
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