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May 23, 2009

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Our house is back on the market. We took it off for a while during bedrest with the twins and the newborn stage. So we're back to pretending we live in a magazine.

The Buzz Around Me

Mingled mock screaming and giggling coming from the children's end of the house. Mr. Visionary is waking the children, which is universally understood in our home as an invitation to a group wrestling match.

Kitchen Happenings

The Engineer and I are tweaking the recipe of our lacto-fermented salsa to see just how spicy we can make it and still stay under the radar of the rest of the family. Just how far will they let us go?

In Our Schoolroom

I am scouring curriculum catalogs and making my shopping list for our homeschool convention coming up in a couple of weeks.

The Garden View

Wow... this thing needs a lot of work. I need to weed (that's never new, is it?) and divide up some of the plants I started in my hotbed. The plants are too crammed, but they look really good.

In The Sewing Room

Working on a few birthday surprises for the children, and I have a pile of summer skirts cut out for myself. Interestingly, pre-twins clothing doesn't fit quite the same. Ahem.

Home-keeping Agenda

With the house on the market, the house has to stay nearly perfect most of the time. It is working well so far with everyone having 'spot-check' areas that have to be perfect before each meal and bedtime. I am amazed how much more time we have when the house is spotless. Cool.

Simple Joys

Nine On Two. The whole family encircling the babies, enraptured with their giggles and smiles. This is the life. I may never sleep again, but this seems worth it.

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My 2008 Goals

Well...my hopes anyway


~Deliver two healthy new babies safely and not too early.
**Done! Two girls born 8/15 at 38 weeks gestation, and plump, too: 6lb, 12 oz and 7lb, 6oz. Thank You, Father!

~Switch to cloth everything...napkins, wipes, diapers, etc.
**Napkins, diapers & wipes done!

~Switch to non-electric kitchen appliances...grain mill, blender, food processor, etc.
**Got the grain mill with the money I made from selling junk stuff on eBay!**

~Learn how to make cold-process soap
**I did it! I really did it! I made Rosemary shampoo bars, Lemon-Calendula soap bars and Spearmint-Peppermint-Tea Tree soap bars. It smells so good in my closet where they are curing!**

~Keep a hand-written journal

~Begin putting our family photos into scrapbooks

~Maintain a "no backlog" policy with my sewing projects

~Purposefully put together an emergency plan and kit for our family with batteries, radio, canned food, clothes, etc. and have it packed and ready to *go*

~Begin building traditions, recipe files, scrapbooks, etc. for our family's celebrations of the Biblical feasts: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles

~Read some fiction for a change!
**OK, just forget this one. Who has time for anything but the have-to-read non-fiction stuff?



Blogging Without Obligation

After coming across what seemed to be the 4000th or so post on someone’s blog starting with “I’m sorry I haven’t posted in awhile.” I decided it is time to rethink what makes a good blog and the expectations that have come to be part of it. I am thinking that no one should utter those words again . . .and with that thought I give you Blogging Without Obligation.

If you feel the same way feel free to grab the logo, make a logo or whatever you would like to do!

I release all the logos, thoughts and words mentioned here about this concept into the public domain. Take the idea and run with it. . .or walk away. It is all good.

  • Because you shouldn’t have to look at your blog like it is a treadmill.
  • Because its okay to just say what you have to say. If that makes for a long post, fine. Short post, fine. Frequent post, fine. Infrequent post, fine.
  • Because its okay to not always be enthralled with the sound of your own typing.
  • Because sometimes less is more.
  • Because only blogging when you feel truly inspired keeps up the integrity of your blog.
  • Because they are probably not going to inscribe your stat, link and comment numbers on your tombstone.
  • Because for most of us blogging is just a hobby. A way to express yourself and connect with others. You should not have to apologize for lapses in posts. Just take a step back and enjoy life, not everything you do has to be “bloggable”.
  • Because if you blog without obligation you will naturally keep your blog around longer, because it won’t be a chore. Plus, just think you will be doing your part to eradicate post pollution. One post at a time. . .

Posted: December 12th, 2006 under Let's Think About That..., Bla Bla Bla.
Comments: 6

Comments

Comment from oldpathsfamilyfarm
Time: December 21, 2007, 7:13 pm

Please let the record show that this post is not my original idea!

I found it, but the original blogger who gave permission for anyone to use it, has very graphic, ugly language on their homepage, so I did not desire to link to it.

If you feel really, really strongly about seeing where it *originally* came from, feel free to Google it.

But I still appreciate her willingness to share the button, and the above words.

~Julie, the blog author here @ Seeking The Old Paths

Comment from My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving
Time: December 21, 2007, 10:45 pm

Love love love it! Great post!

Comment from bethb
Time: February 3, 2008, 10:24 pm

OH, I cannot say AMEN loud enough! *smiling sighs* I will definitely be grabbing that little button and linking here, just to remind myself… should those old obligatory, smothering self-induced expectations of blogging vanities return to nag my mind. This so goes along with what’s been on my mind/in my heart to post lately anyways… if I ever get around to it! *lol* And a million other things… ;)

Comment from Athena
Time: February 7, 2008, 1:01 am

Thanks, I needed that.

Comment from debbie geiler
Time: November 3, 2008, 2:07 pm

Just wondering about your goal of going cloth everything. Im attempting to do the same and I was wondering it you have any resources to share. Also anything on homemade soaps. Thank you for sharing so abundantly your gifts. You may not be formally educated to the worlds standards, but you can’t buy the wisdom that God has freely given to you.
Thank you again

Comment from oldpathsfamilyfarm
Time: November 11, 2008, 10:39 am

Debbie,

There are some ideas here in an old post about cloth stuff.

I learned to make soap from the book, _The Natural Soap Book_ by Susan Miller Cavitch.

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