Happy Tuesday :)

Hope you're all having a Blessed day. We had a so so weekend, ended up not doing anything but puppy sitting which turned out to be a big pain in the behind. I have chewed up shoes, my living room area rug is ruined and the dog went potty all over my house.  Oy, not my kind of long relaxing week…

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Happy Memorial Day

My father in law Douglas Bourland....we miss you dad! “It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” -Norman Schwarzkopf I hope you are all having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. For many, it's just 3 days off work.  For others…

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Ministry of Motherhood Book Study

I am a firm believer in the fact that God leads us to certain places, sites, people and I am absolutely sure that it wasn't by mere chance or accident that while browsing around the internet today, I happened to land on Good Morning Girls. If you were to ask me how it happened, I can tell you …

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God's Wisdom for Mothers

God’s Wisdom for Mothers was created to give timeless wisdom and guidance for Scripture meditation and application with 11 categories (62 subjects) pertaining to motherhood. Topics include God’s Wisdom with Children, God Delights in Mothers Who . . . , God Walks with Mothers Through Hearta…

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Too Rich for a Bride by Mona Hodgson

With a head more suited to bookkeeping than a bridal veil, Ida’s dreams include big business- not beaus. Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado for one reason: to work for the infamous but undeniably successful businesswoman, Molli…

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Saturday.....

5:30am found me slipping out of bed and slowly dragging myself into the living room. I don't usually get up that early but for the last week I have been up bright and early to watch the Casey Anthony Trial.  What can I say?  I have been following the story since the very first day and I just wa…

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{ Cooking Thursday }

Morning everyone, sorry this is going up so late, I haven't been able to get into my blog all morning. Blech! Anyway here we go: Roasted Potato Wedges Potatoes, quartered  (the amount depends on how many people you're cooking for) 2 teaspoons olive oil Breadcrumbs with Italian Seasoning (i…

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Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon Blog Tour

Once upon a soft, summer night in a small New England town, a 12-year-old girl named Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother Sam about a door—hidden among the ruins of an old town long forgotten—that led to a magica…

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Homeschool Curriculum for new year

Children's ages:   12 and 8 We homeschool our children, albeit through Connections Academy which is an online public school, it is STILL homeschooling.  It was not an easy decision to make, matter of fact it took many months of praying for the right way to go and asking the Lord to show me if th…

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A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz

Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz has been reading, teaching, and writing about Jane Austen for decades; now, at the conclusion of his academic career, he describes his almost lifelong personal encounter with an author whose insights transcend those revealed by mere scholarship. A Jane …

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Homemaking

It's therapeutic, at least to me. I don't see housework as a chore, I tend to take great pleasure in making my house a home for my family. First thing, getting rid of this ghastly sight in the kitchen sink, after the dishes and giving the sink a good scrub down, I watered the flowers on t…

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Happy Homemaker Monday

The weather in my neck of the woods: 66 degrees outside and still windy.  I don't like the wind it totally messes with mine and my little one's allergies. Things that make me happy: Being a homemaker Book I'm reading: The Missing by Beverly Lewis - finished The Secret last night and sta…

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31 Days of Prayer for my Husband

Do you remember when I did this back in 2009??? Well I've decided to do it again starting the 1st of June. We pray for ourselves and for our family, we pray for friends and for world peace and for so many other things in between, but I feel that the one thing I often neglect to pray for is my…

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These Lines on my face

I went for a haircut this morning. I was trying to grow my hair out, thinking that I wanted to sport the long locks I used to have years and years ago, but truth be told, I guess either because I'm getting older or because I want easier or maybe even because I've grown and changed and don&…

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