Last week I said that I would be continuing to work of Facet No. 2 (From the Art of Homemaking)Ambition.So I have been. At the beginning of the week I sat down and made a list of 33 things that I wanted to accomplish this week (besides the usual housekeeping, child rearing, sewing, self-preservation, and other various weekly obligatory items).I worked hard. I accomplished a lot. I WAS AMBITIOUS!But I didn't get to cross off everything on my list.Dang.No matter how hard I tried not everything ... View the Post
The Art of Homemaking—A is for Ambition
This week I've been working on Facet No.2: Ambition.Here's the report...Every day this week I've had in the back of my mind....be ambitious...be ambitious...be ambitious.This has been good and bad.Good in that I've started a lot of projects, brainstormed some great ideas, and have tried to take advantage of every spare minute.Bad in that I've started a lot of projects that I haven't finished and I've been running around like a crazy person and wearing myself out---literally.Soooooo...here's ... View the Post
Moments….
I have been telling a certain 6 year old that I wanted to teach her to do some simple embroidery stitches (I only know simple) and yesterday she came to me with an embroidery hoop and a needle and said she wanted to learn. The problem was that I had about 15 minutes before starting dinner, was in the middle of folding laundry, and had an 18 month old running around unfolding laundry as fast as I could fold it....and it just wasn't a good time. But, I stopped. Took a breath. Looked at the ... View the Post
The Art of Homemaking: Facet No.2 Another A
Alright, before I move on to Facet No. 2 I need to report on Facet No. 1. (Facet No. 1 is "The Two A's": Attitude and Appearance.) I better start off by saying, Hi, my name is liZ and I'm a pajama-aholic. I'm trying to fight it but right now I'm loosing the battle. I've been doing the get up and get ready first thing everyday just like Mrs. Hoole says---and that's cool but most days I just get up, put on a clean pair of...um...shall we call them yoga pants?...and a t-shirt then do my hair ... View the Post
The Art of Homemaking—Week 4: My life is like a pack of cookies
So I am in week 4 of my Art of Homemaking Experiment.These past 2 weeks I've been working on my attitude and appearance.Let me explain how things are going by telling a story.Earlier this week I bought Grace a package of Grandma's Chocolate cookies just after Simon went to school. Each package has two cookies. When she opened it up she said "Wow! Two cookies! One for me and one for Simon!"Grace ate her cookie and then put the other cookie on the table and announced that she was going to save ... View the Post
Heroes of Homemaking (at least to me they are…)
(The dishes the morning after a baby shower. Note here that I didn't take one picture at the shower---shameful---but I did take a picture of the dishes a day later ;) Liz is usually our resident expert of homemaking around here, but when I posted this post about sewing, I said I'd later share some thoughts about how I have learned (and continue to learn) about overcoming the mundane tasks of running a house and raising kids. But let's face some facts here. My house doesn't always ... View the Post
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