It’s week three of Advent and the anticipation continues to build as the light on the advent wreath gets brighter! This weeks candle represents Joy. You will see how the joy we talk about this week goes along with the peace we talked about last week, and the hope we talked about the week before. …
Peace – Advent & Homemaking: Week Two
The anticipation for Christmas continues to build, as week slip into week two of Advent. This week we will incorporate Peace into our homemaking. Last week we briefly discussed what Advent is, and then moved on to talk about week one: Hope. In talking about hope, we worked on building the anticipation for Christmas, and …
Hope – Advent & Homemaking: Week One
Come along with me as we take each week of Advent and implement it into our homemaking! This week we are doing hope. What is Advent? In short Advent is the season leading up to Christmas. The word “advent” means arrival. The season of Advent is simply celebrating Christs first advent (arrival) in anticipation for …
Preparing You and Your Household for the Fall Season
Fall is just around the corner with the cool air creeping in here in Pennsylvania. It may be a little cliche, but it truly is my favorite time of year! I love the change of the season, the cool weather in the morning and evenings with warerm days. I enjoy the variety of different squash …
Taking Time for Yourself as a Homemaker.
As homemakers we pour ourselves into our families and our homes. We often forget how important it is to take time for ourselves. As you may have heard, you cannot pour from an empty cup. This can be hard as our job is where we live and so we can’t really remove ourselves from it …
100 Blessings Hidden in Everyday Life
Life can be so busy at times that it distracts us from the blessings that are hidden throughout our days. Being a homemaker, I can easily get caught up in the mundane tasks of everyday life and lose sight of how beautiful this life really is. With all of the cooking, cleaning, scheduling, and taking …