A Peek At Our Life

August 30, 2008

Updates

The twins have arrived! Two new beautiful girls now make the tally six girls and three boys... everyone is thrilled!

The Buzz Around Me

Babies are sleeping on my lap, and the rest of the family is working on gutting the bus.

Kitchen Happenings

We're enjoying having all those freezer meals we stocked up on. A frozen casserole and some salad from the garden, and dinner is done. Whew.

In Our Schoolroom

The children are enjoying exploring a new Hebrew computer curriculum. I think the four-year-old knows more than anyone so far.

The Garden View

Brayden Waller planted some beets and collards and greens for me when they were here a couple of weeks ago... they will make a nice fall garden.

In The Sewing Room

I got that new bedspread and bedskirt made to welcome the babies. Now I have to alter some wool diaper covers before the case of disposables I bought runs out.

Home-keeping Agenda

Things are running pretty smoothly, but we're not doing any extra anytime soon.

Simple Joys

That smell of newborn babies. I just can't stop kissing them and breathing in that wonderful scent... none of us can.

Preparing for Twins

I add this link below only because local folks have asked. These are the things that we will be trying to buy before the babies arrive. So, while matching outfits are fun, these things are the priorities for us. (P.S. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that used items are perfectly OK... well...just not the diaper liners. *grin*) I will remove stuff that we have already gotten.

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My 2008 Goals

Well...my hopes anyway


~Deliver two healthy new babies safely and not too early.

~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!

Linkage

I don’t know why I have such a hard time with links. The blog has been up and functional for some months now, and still I haven’t put up a blogroll or any link listing. My main reason is that I feel responsible. If I have a link on my site, to me, it represents full endorsement of any or all of what is contained in the linked site. I could not in good faith send you with a warm recommendation to folks whom I know to have faulty doctrine, are not in real life what they appear to be on a blog or who are in general not good influences for one reason or another.

However, I have learned that this is just not how this whole blogosphere works. And in truth, there is much to glean from lots of folks, even in the midst of any of the above imperfect circumstances. No one corners the market on truth. The rain falls on the just and the unjust, so there is truth to be found interspersed with falsehood and good interspersed with evil lots of places. The Holy Spirit is available to help Believers discern between the two, if we avail ourselves of said help.

I also remember not always being at a place where I could stand or understand sound doctrine, hence, I had to grow. Many resources helped me grow to the place I am at present, and surely many more resources will be tools Yahweh will use to grow me to some further place. They were steps, as it were. (This is not to say that I have in any way arrived, just that I recognize that I am not now, where I once was…and blessed be the name of Yahweh for that.) Since I don’t know the spiritual heart condition of every reader, I can’t know if some link or resource that I found along my way might serve another person in like manner.

That said, I will promise this: I will not put up any links in which I believe the evil outweighs the good, or that I believe would cause a Baby Believer to stumble. I do not necessarily agree doctrinally with all the following links. I do not necessarily agree with any point in any link. Nothing listed here or anywhere else in this blog should be interpreted as a full endorsement of any link! Whew… I’m glad I got that off my chest (…sigh and warm smile…). Now, with that all taken care of, here are some links ~ have fun!

(I am just getting started on the blogroll, so if you’d like to be added, drop a comment below. )

Blogs:

Seeking Faithfulness

TN Farmgirl

Sojourner In A Strange Land

Following The Ancient Paths

Blessed Motherhood

Hinds Feet On High Places

Abundant Blessings Homestead

Lentils and Rice

Joys In The Journey

Amy’s Humble Musings

Holy Experience

A Path Made Straight

Three Fold Cord

Taking Root 

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