With My Hand to the Plow

Lately I have days that I work until 2-3 am. I hit the bed hardly able to walk (literally). These are usually days that either I have over-committed myself or something has happened that day that puts me way behind.

All of my married life I have had some sort of home industry going on. Cakes and catering for family and friends has been great. I’ve quilted, I’ve done in-home day care, established and directed a church kindergarten, cleaned houses, started this website, written e-books, produced videos… the list goes on. Different seasons of life allowed for different avenues. The main thing was I always wanted my kids with me.

10 Attributes of the Fierce, Fearless Femina

10.) She’s meek.

She’s powerful, but self controlled. But her whit and wisdom keep her power in check, she keeps a tight reign on her force. She understands that power restrained builds empires, where unleashed force can only destroy.

(Didn’t you see Frozen? Yeah, don’t let that go…)

9.) She has a plan.

She’s not out there living willy nilly, hoping that good things happen. She knows what she wants. She has goals, a vision and nothing is going to stop her. She has an in-writing, achievable timeline for getting what she wants.

From a Homeschool Victim Who Obviously Survived

Disclaimer: This post is not meant to discredit real abuse. Real abuse happens within all walks of life. It does need to be addressed and dealt with - with punishment for the offender and healing for the very real victim. But this post is a satire about a life that often seems hard and unfair. What child does not think life is unfair at times?

Six years have passed since I graduated from what I have been trained to call formal education. I was taught that education was about more than the books and grades, so we called our curriculum, our scheduled learning, “formal education”. It is all documented in those records we kept, just in case anyone accused us of not doing real school.

Memorizing 1 Corinthians 13 - Let Love Abide (video)

There are 3 things I want my kids to know more than anything:

1. Who God is and what He really said.

Which is why we read and memorize Scripture. As we read, study and memorize the Holy Spirit will reveal more and more truth to us. You can’t really grow in truth if you only hear a sermon once a week. As we learn whole chapters at a time we are learning verses in context. This makes it easier when we do hear preaching or teaching on a verse to have discernment whether or not it is being taught in the context of all of God’s word, and it also gives us a deeper understanding for the groundwork already laid.

Are We Deceiving the Children?

Where did we get this concept that summers are a time of living carefree? You know, those lazy, hazy days of summer?

These long days of summer are to be enjoyed, but this mentality of 3 months of doing nothing but fun in the sun is wrong.

Summers should actually be our busiest time. This is the time to sow, weed, water and harvest.

Back in the agricultural days kids took a break from “school” to be able to help work the family fields and farms. They understood the work that it took to keep everyone alive.

Free Deer Meat and Grossed Out Girls

With it being winter… and a record cold one at that, it is deer hunting season. Jeff’s dad and brothers are avid hunters… as are most of the men in his extended family. They are northerners (upstate New York), it seems like hunting is more popular up there.

Anyway… Jeff does not enjoy hunting, maybe it’s the sitting in the woods all day. He doesn’t do well with sitting still and being quiet. 😉

No Excuses, The World is in Your Hand

We take for granted how we have access to more information than we can possibly ever use. And because it is at our finger tips, and most often free, most people choose to squander away their time with foolishness. Is this not grievous?

And what is more amazing is that we can learn from people who have first hand experience with any number of issues.

Would you rather learn about how to overcome depression from someone who has done that, or from an expert that can only treat you with medication? (I am not against medication, but I do believe the whole person needs to be treated.)

The Constitution

Before you eat your BBQ today, spend 10 minutes and read the Constitution, and then pray our people will return to it.

The Constitution of the United States:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I wish I would have known…

As a writer and speaker I have heard ladies say so many times, “I wish I would have known …(insert regret)… when I was younger.”

Oh, and how often I have said that myself, especially since I was not raised in a Christian home.

I always have this feeling that I am making up for lost time, for things I was never taught as a girl. But mostly I feel like I am swimming upstream as I am working at changing my worldview. Learning new skills are not near as difficult as breaking loose from faulty thinking.

Great Economies are Built by Families Who Know How to Work

“Great economies are built by families who know how to work, and who will invest the thousands of hours and 15-20 years required to train their sons in the character trait of diligence. Nations are built, one son at a time. And nations come apart, one son at a time.” ~Douglas French

We had a wedding to cater Saturday night, actually, this was Olivia’s job and I worked for her this time. To be honest it was nice to step back and let her much younger mind and body handle the pressure. 😉