Making Home
Home ~ A place of Welcoming
August 8, 2009
I want friends, family and strangers to feel welcome here. But the people I want most of all to feel welcome are my husband and children. This is their place for resting, creating, learning, eating, growing and sharing. Without them this house is just that and nothing more.
home sweet home, a mansion it ain't
July 17, 2009
A couple days ago my six year old Brienne, out of the blue, had this to say: "mama, we don't have a mansion-y house but we sure do have a beautiful garden". Out of the mouths of babes (missing her two top front teeth I'd like to add - so ...
Pretty Thrifty
July 12, 2009
{mid July bouquet: gracing the top of my "new" fruit cart} I don't like shopping. Shopping is not recreation, it's a chore. I think I partly feel this way because I like to spend money in keeping with my values. When you stop to analyze purchases*; where it was made, ...
A better May day
May 5, 2009
Today was a day of home & hearth, I: got up at 6:30, read my RSS, e-mail, enjoyed my morning coffee and was done on the computer before the kids were up at 7:30 read the Bible with the kiddos, listened to Gershwin tunes played on a svelte clarinet while ...
Hanging laundry is fun
April 22, 2009
I'm tired of my blogging voice. I've written a lot of wordy posts this past week. Time for a break. Happy Earth Day everyone. Who's says being "green" is no fun? Get outside, hang some laundry and have some fun! Amazingly, my white linens were still clean after these "laundry ...
Future unknown
April 19, 2009
At heart she's a homemaker. All she ever really wanted was a husband, a home and babies to call her own. Deep down he's a visionary and adventurer. But he's also a provider, protector and steadier than steady. Her heart and dreams are wrapped up in this man. He is ...
small notebook, small world
March 28, 2009
{photo credit: Brienne Tougas - the kids are taking such great photos these days!) FIMBY has been a quiet blog for the past couple weeks, understandable given the recent events. And I haven't posted anything actually useful for at least a month. As much as I like posting photos and ...
