How To Manage Your Home And Coffee Please...

In order to manage our homes, we must be able to be trained ourselves,

And to be able to learn new skills and to practice what we learn!

Keeping a list of things to do helps!

Cooking and doubling a recipe to freeze for a dinner on a busy day.

Some ladies make a months worth of meals for the freezer.

Use your Crock Pot!

The kitchen must be the heart of the HOME!

Learn to cook easy, yet nutritious meals.

Make cookies and freeze them in a tin, lined with wax paper.

Doing a load of laundry every day and night or spend one whole day

Allotted for (Laundry Day)

Keep a plastic tub in the sink filled with soapy water to place dirty dishes in,

 So they are easier to wash by hand or load into the dishwasher.

Sweep the kitchen floor daily.

The Living room needs comfy blankets and good books to read!

Never go to bed without tidying up this room and the kitchen,

Because then you will start the next day already behind.

Women today have so many resources to use to help them plan meals.

And to learn tips to be frugal.

Take time every day to have a cup of coffee or tea in the afternoon!

Do this so you will feel refreshed before staring the evenings.

Dinner and the Home family time.

Do not put your child in every activity known to man,

Pick one thing and do it for a season!

Make time for rubbing your hubby's back or neck!

Meeting his needs is very important.

Your children will grow up and leave home and it will be just the two of you!

A well ordered HOME is able to grow and prosper;

And you can find two matching socks!

I once new a Lady who had a very cute wicker basket in her laundry room,

And she washed and dried all the socks and then placed them in the basket.

And it was up to the children to get them for themselves.

She figured this saved her hours every week by not having

 To sort and match all the socks!

Our Homes are like the sphere of influence we have.

Too strict and we feel boxed in,

To laxed we feel out of sorts!

God is a God of order, not chaos.

Keeping your HOME a safe place, and Keeping watch!

May your children and hubby and loved ones always say;

There is no place like HOME!

Arise And Get Up You Sleepy Heads...

Artist: Helen Allinham

The staircase is used to ascend and to descend,
We are now in a place where we are being called to come down.
As to awake from your slumber!

Listen! I hear the "voice of my beloved!"

Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
Song of Songs 2:10

Happy Spring and may we awake from the slumber of winter's rest.
He is calling you "Arise"

The world seems like it is coming alive!
Shake off the dust, as it had begun to cling to your boots.
The dust is the lesser things.
My own thinking, laziness, and inactivity in the natural and spiritual.

He calls me by this precious name
"My Darling"
He considers me beautiful!

He has spoken this
"Arise"
Come with me!

Okay, so If He is calling us to come down from are room of slumber,
Then, will we be like children who roll over and go back to sleep?

Sometimes the transition from one stage to another is difficult.
(Remember Labor)
On one hand, I love change and adventure;
But on the other hand, I love the comfort of the sameness...

I think we need to strengthen our legs and especially our thighs,
As I read an interesting article, that said a key for a longer time frame to live-in
 un-assisted as we age was seen in those
Women who had stronger thighs (Not Larger)


Arise, and get up my darling, we have laid around long enough!
We have work to do!
Cleaning and planning and doing our Father's business!
Find ways to strengthen the hands that hang down.

I want to share a word of courage and faith with you!
We are more than little fire flies,
But if you feel your light is very little in comparison to others;
You need to know this today, the older or more tired you get.
It is in this darkness of days and maybe getting closer to the night season.
It is this;
Your little light will be brighter, the darker it gets...

Why Are So Many Women Blogging; My Answers...

 

Artist:Adelheid Dietrich (1827-1891)

As I laid in bed last night and this question just rolled around

In my head for hours it seemed like.

It was a question that I really tried to answer, I

Believe being a woman I just might have some insight into this question.

This is the question;

Why are there so many women Blogging?

So here are the thoughts that came to me, and I believe that they partly

answer this question.

Our hearts are overflowing with destiny,

Our hands were made to mold and create daily,

Women have words that abound;

We have a need to release them in order to allow them to produce!

All our words spoken or written produce.

(That is why we're warned not to gossip)

A woman's heart cries out (can you see me)?

We want to leave a legacy behind.

We desire information and knowledge.

We want to give advice and teach.

It is a place to express things you have experienced.

We can share tidbits such as recipes and how to DIY projects!

Advice on how to have a healthy marriage.

Child rearing ideas and advice.

Ministry

We want to be stirred into action;

The bride cannot tolerate being unproductive!

A woman's gifts unused is much likened to the sweet fragrance sleeping

deeply within our flowers in each and every petal.

HOW TO Join A Link Up Party...

Let it Rain...

Open the floodgates of Heaven

Let it rain

Let it rain

His rain is spiritual and natural.

We cannot live without either one of them.

Life comes from His rain (reign)...

I wanted to send out a HOW TO post on joining a Link Party

And once again we can look to another's expertise and her Blog post,

 on how to learn to do something!

The blessings and wisdom from others are tools we can use!

I do not know this lady, but she has the best HOW TO on this particular need!

If you have always wanted to Link Up and did not know how,

Here is the information you need!

Click HERE

Praising the Lord for the rain that has fallen on our dry and thirsty land!

It can rain on my Link Up parties on any Wednesday :o)

May we all enjoy His pleasures and play like we are children again!

May your heart never grow old...

Training and Encouragement...

Hello, Who here does not need encouragement?

I just wanted to say thank you for leaving comments that
have encouraged me!

Encouragement can go a very long way...

So many women have gone to school to become skilled in a profession!
But where can we become trained and skilled at being a homemaker?

I think certain blogs can be a tool for learning some tips on being a homemaker!

But it is in the home and on the job that we really learn and glean
real life applications in this calling!

Keep growing and learning and you will
become a Godly Homemaker...
From Glory to Glory

Let us work while it is yet day!

How To Organize Your Recipes...

Every Women needs a place to keep her recipes,
 quick and orderly...

To rely too heavily on the internet is not really wise.

How many times have we all experienced the internet being down or not

having the precise recipe we are looking for.

Let's think about for a moment what makes a good dish or combination 

of foods really special?

The taste of course, but the memories that are associated with certain

recipes are the best part of cooking;

Especially during holidays and birthdays and family get togethers.

Here is what I did to have my favorite recipes handy and organized and protected.

Firstly, purchase a box of plastic covering sheets,

Also purchase a few vinyl notebooks.

I did make a few different categories with my plan!

Here is where you put all your Main Course recipes and Side Dishes!

All my casserole dishes go into this one. All my delicious stews and soups.

Salads and Rice recipes.

I have so many Breads and Muffin recipes!

I find it easier to just pull out the notebook that has my Breads!

The staple of life! 

Have you tried my Pumpkin Bread recipe?

Really, it is the BEST ever...

It makes three loaves at a time, one to eat, and one to freeze, and one to give away!

Click Here

Now, in this little Large notebook is my Sweets!

I once heard a friend say that her first tooth she cut was a sweet tooth...

I do think that is a true statement

(As I read it on the Internet also)

(And I also heard they can't print anything that is not true)

Now, this is filled with so many special and dear to my heart recipes of

Cookies and cakes and cream puffs!

Your collection of recipe  should be very special and pretty looking.
 As they really are heirlooms for your family and children to pass on!

Taking care of them and preserving them is a wise thing to do!

You will need a bit of pretty paper and some craft scissors,

Sticky adhesive photo splits.

What I did was put out a large card table, and started going through my box of recipes.

Then I started arranging them, I put them in stacks of the categories I chose,

from the above notebooks.You can have as many as you want.
Or make it as easy and simple as you would like!

I used my printer and recopied some of them, others I just slid them

into a plastic sheet protector. 

It was so much fun to read over so many recipes.

Memories...

Now, this is where I made the decision on what recipes to keep and those to toss.

I asked myself if it was not family history or an heirloom to me, if I 

had not ever made this or had no future plans on doing so out it went.

This was a couple of weeks in the making, as I did take my time 

and enjoyed the process. 

So I encourage you ladies to think about making up your own,

Family and your Mothers or Grandmothers special recipe notebooks.

This project might be something to do this summer

  when it is too hot to go outside.

In my case I did do it this last winter when it was too cold to go outside!

How To Make Scalloped Potatoes and Ham...

 

So Easy To Make...

I just wanted to say good morning, as I live out West

 and most of you ladies have been up for hours.

And for those on the other side of the

World you are just going to bed... So good night!

I made a delicious casserole for dinner last night, and this

is one of my favorite comfort foods.

It is made with your left over Ham from Easter or another holiday meal

Remember not to waste it!

Either cut it up and freeze for later or make this dish tonight!
Being Frugal with our resources and meal planning is just plain wise!

Our Men love any meals prepared with meat,

(Unless of course you are a vegetarian, skip this post)

Scallop Potatoes with Ham

This is so good and easy peasy too!

This is what I do;

Wash and peel six potatoes, slice thinly and place in cold water with some salt.

Let them sit for about 10 minutes (gets the starch out)

Slice a good amount of your Ham (as much as you like)

Use 1 can of Cream  mushroom soup

3/4 can milk

1/2 cup grated cheese

Salt and pepper

Shake of garlic salt

Now drain your sliced potatoes and place in a large bowl

Add your can of soup and milk

Add your diced or sliced Ham chunks

Mix in cheese and salt and pepper and garlic.

Spray a 9x13 pan

Pour into the pan and cover with foil

Bake in preheated 350 degree oven

Bake covered for 45minutes,

 Uncover and bake another 10 minutes to brown it!

You can add onions if you like and more cheese;

Sometimes I have added crushed chips on top.

This is not a precise recipe, there is a lot of room to experiment.

Remember the four day rule!

After Four days throw it out!

Some mornings it seems like the Birds singing just sounds sweeter!

Shifting Gears...

Shifting Gears...

After a very long winter we now need to change many things;

Once again we need to shift gears.
 We cannot stay at the same speed when Spring time

rolls in and old man winter has been told to go,
 Where does he go?

The other side of the earth...

It gets warm earlier in the day and it stays lighter longer;

Why, so we can get our work done!

Old debris must be cleaned away, trees and bushes must be trimmed.

Soil must be tuned over, seeds bought for planting.

I have tried to make a habit of in early spring to start raking outside,

Each day to build my stamina up for the long busy season ahead!

Shake off the winter blahs and know these trials you may be

 going through will only make you stronger.

If we go through it with the least amount of complaining and murmuring,

The chance of having to do it again is less likely...

Feeling down

Feeling tired

Feeling the pain...

Feelings are very powerful, and I do not disregard them,

but when they start to rule your whole home and marriage and finances.

Girl, they are out of control and you now have submitted to them.

They become your master and YOU the slave!

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you:

And through the rivers,

they will not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire,

you shall not be burned,

Nor shall the flame scorch you.

Isaiah 43:2

Shift gears Dear ones, get out into the open!
Full speed ahead!

Change your perspective;

It is not about doing MORE

It is about doing something different!

The weight of this world is heavy we are not to bear its burden!

I am not the keeper of the EARTH...

But I am called to be the keeper of my HOME

Rejoice and be glad, shake off what has tried to rob You of your JOY

Smile, it will illuminate into the whole EARTH!!

You are the LIGHT of the world

There is a treasure in you (This Earthen Vessel)

And the more cracks, the more the light is brought forth...

He is Alive and He has asked us to occupy till He returns,

May we not grow weary while doing good!

Encourage someone today!

All the decorating and pretty things will never be able to mask

a broken heart, or a broken dream.

Shake off the dust and start moving into His direction;

One step at a time...

You got to move it move it...