Togetherness

With a house full of children that love to ham it up in front of the camera I love those shots you get when no one knows the camera’s around… Every mom can appreciate special moments when siblings are enjoying one another…playing, talking, just being together! Our family being together 98% of the time is [...]

Love Affair

…with my new camera…or is it a love affair with the subjects? This post linked to: Wordless Wednesday @ 5 minutes for Mom

Jesus-Others-You

Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Preferring one another…What exactly does that mean? A quick look in the dictionary gave me this: Regarding above others; advancing to a higher station; offering; presenting. Before I looked it up I asked each one of our children what [...]

Menu ~ April 20th

I posted my menu last week to cover through this Thursday, so a couple of these dishes will be repeated for looks sake. Dearest is paid every week, therefore the menu I plan is made for pay-day through to pay-day, Thursday – Thursday. BREAKFAST: Money is very tight lately so I have been trying to [...]

Make-do Gardening

We planted about ½ our garden yesterday before the rain came last night. We planted 3 rows of potatoes, one row of onions, as well as lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, squash and peas. We love peas, but quite honestly I hate to figure out a way to support our peas. The first year I had imagined [...]

Leaves of 3 let them be!!!!

I guess the story goes back a long time when my daughter discovered her love of reading. First it was the Little House books, followed by any book written about “back then” (as my twins say…”Mom is this a back-then car?” “Mom is this your back-then butter?”) Then came her fascination with nature. She would devour [...]