Beautiful Calling

I have a beautiful life! It’s made up of so many facets of my God-given Beautiful Calling: to be His child, His ambassador, a wife and a mother. Some days I struggle to view the daily tasks and responsibilities as a high and noble calling. I look around and feel discouraged and overwhelmed. Usually it [...]

The littles had it with pasta for lunch and we ate it with a hearty stew for dinner I had a very successful bread baking day yesterday. Just a basic white bread recipe but it turned out wonderfully. I don’t have a bread-maker and I don’t really want one either. I have enough gadgets. I [...]

It’s Monday again and time to showcase one of our “caffs” from last week in Magic Marker Monday. For those who missed the post, our VBS theme was Polar Extremes and I was teaching the littlest of the littles…those too young for VBS whose parents were working in VBS. Our biggest day we had 8 [...]

We had planned to go camping this weekend and have family out to our campsite for John-John’s first birthday party. In an effort to be frugal, I didn’t reserve a campsite for this weekend. I guess I should have. There are none available. Since Chloe is 2 and has only been camping once in her [...]

  A Google search of ‘Tune Up’ revealed the following definition: An Adjustment for Better Functioning A search of ‘Adjustment’ revealed the following: A Small Change, A Minor Correction, A Modification What is Tune-Up Tuesday? Find out more HERE! (Playing while I organize) Since Chloe will be 3 in January, I thought we should have [...]

This may be a lame WFMW post but I came across this site Skin Deep (thanks DH!) and was amazed (shocked, appalled) at the results of some of the ingredients and ratings of every day products we use such as lotions and shampoos. I was very surprised to read that there are cancer-causing agents in [...]

I am so thankful for Irelynn’s safe arrival. She is my first niece and she is darling!! When she was born my brother emailed that she weighed 3.37lbs. My heart stopped for a beat until I realized that in his crazy excitement, he meant to say kg. She really weighed in at 7lbs 6 oz!! [...]

Beth at Not a Bow in Sight is our lucky blog hop winner! Hurray! I actually subscribe to her blog and truly enjoy it. Pop over and have a peek! Elizabeth George is one of my favorite authors and she has written many books on being the woman, wife, mother and home-maker that God has [...]

It’s Monday again and time to showcase one of our “caffs” from last week in Magic Marker Monday. For those who missed the post, our VBS theme was Polar Extremes and I was teaching the littlest of the littles…those too young for VBS whose parents were working in VBS. Our biggest day we had 8 [...]

I just want to reiterate the fact that I was really impressed with Thermos and their products! On Friday I purchased a blue straw bottle for my son since he spends a great deal of his time plotting to steal his sister’s pink one. Toys R Us (in Canada) has then on sale for 14.99 [...]