February 4, 2007

• Beautiful
  Sundays

  Oh I do hope you all have had a most blessed Sunday!   We certainly have too.  Many of you know that we home church and today’s lesson and just everything about it was so wonderful.  It was just our family today but this week in the mail we got our long awaited song books!!!  We use these songbooks when we meet with the rest of our home church friends…that would be Kate’s family and another dear family and now there is another family that we will meet very soon.  We ordered our own books so when we are not with everyone else (we live 3.5 hours away and don’t get there every week) we can be singing “with them” too.  We ordered the CDs that go along with the songbooks because we are not quite as musical as we would like to be……yet.   What a sweet addition to our meeting this morning.  We just kept singing, had our message and prayer time, then ended with two songs.  The sun was shining and the sky was blue and the snow glistened and we were all warm and snugly inside.   The songbooks are from a company that offers material for nursing home ministries.  The CD plays through the whole song first before it begins again with the words.  This gives the elderly folks time to get to the right page number etc..  The tempo is a bit slower but that is ok and the key is a little lower (so they say).  As we were singing the first hymn the rest of my family was having some trouble adjusting to the key and the fact that we have all had various amounts of voice this week due to sore throats and coughs….but it appeared that I was the only one who sang everything without a hitch.  Near the end of the song I thought of something and tried to keep my composure until we were through…..Nursing home…..seniors….elderly….and I AM THE ONLY ONE HERE HAVING NO TROUBLE!  Well, they all got a good laugh out of that one.  I am 8 years older than my husband you see and of course I hit 50 this year…sooooo….it made it all the funnier.  It was my favorite hymn though (“Victory in Jesus”) and I was so thrilled to be singing that I didn’t care.
  
  

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  Concerning my last post….

  I received an email from a friend of our family who does not blog on xanga but wanted to participate in the ABC’s of Homemaking.  His answers were so interesting and thought provoking I knew I had to post them! 
  So, with his permission here they are.  I just copied the whole email below.  
  This also has me very curious to see just how you single fellows out there would define your ABC’s of homemaking.   Yes, homemaking is the woman’s domain but from reading this we can see that the guys sure would have great practical solutions.  I know for me as a mom of a son…while we are training him to be a strong godly leader and provider, you bet you I have been teaching him how to do “things around the home.”   He needs to be prepared, no matter how manly he is, to help his sweet wife….you never know…wives get sick…they have babies.  
  I just know you will enjoy this man’s take on the ABC’s……
  
  

  Since you offered I guess I will answer your survey, it
  will be the men’s outlook on such things.

   

  Aprons –
  Y/N? If Y, what does your favorite look like?
  Um what’s the point of an
  apron that’s why there’s carharts if you get stuff on them that just makes them
  last longer because you have to wear off the stuff before you wear them
  out.

  
  Baking –
  Favorite thing to bake
  
  I can
  handle baking I enjoy it greatly.  I make
  a cobbler that is famous as far away as the west cost so I’m told.

  
  Clothesline
  – Y/N?
  It seemed
  like a good idea and I went out and got some rope, but I don’t wash my clothing
  that often and it got in the way and I found much better uses for the rope
  

  
  Donuts –
  Have you ever made them?
  yea
  

  
  Every day –
  One homemaking thing you do every day
  I make
  myself something to eat almost every day and I clean up after that, Sort of,
  some may know my dish washing methods. 
  Hey it is in the Boy Scout manual.

  
  Freezer – Do
  you have a separate deep freeze?
  
  When I get
  my own place and not living with parents, in apartments, or hotels I will have
  to have one.   On the same line of
  thinking it is really hard to get a weeks worth of food into one of those hotel
  refrigerators.

  
  Garbage
  Disposal – Y/N?
  Why on
  earth would anyone ever want one of them. 
  I can not believe the number of people that say they want them.   All they do is take good garbage and put it
  down the drain.  That stuff belongs out
  in the compost pile where it will help plants grow and be useful

  
  Handbook
  – What is your favorite homemaking resource?

  Foxfire and
  Back Woods Home got good stuff
   
  Ironing –
  Love it or hate it? Or hate it but love the results?
  I don’t
  iron much no problem doing it if I have to I normally don’t see the need.   Although when I was a young kid my mom had me
  help her and I would try to leave the iron in one spot when she was not looking
  to see if it would really leave a black spot like in the cartoons… I got a brown
  one all I would have needed was a few more seconds.

  
  Junk drawer
  – Y/N? Where is it?
  
  Yes.  If
  not careful they will become junk rooms.

  
  Kitchen –
  Color and decorating scheme
  
  I guess my
  plans have to be flexible since someday there might be a wife that will want to
  put in her input.   I like to cook so I
  would like a big commercial like kitchen with big gas stoves and ovens and have
  that stainless steel look.  So I can make
  lots of food easily.   Then I would also
  like a more traditional kitchen with a wood stove and all that kind of
  stuff.

  Also I hope
  to have a really patient wife since my plans are to just get something together
  that works, like used cabinets and whatnot then over time I want to make all the
  woodwork myself.   But that may mean that
  just when things get settled in I may be ripping them apart to add new
  stuff

  But a good
  wife would know I just want to make improvements for her… right?… I hope
  J

  
  Love – What
  is your favorite part of homemaking?
  
  I
  don’t know, not my department I just do what has to get done.

  
  Mop –
  Y/N?
  Mopping
  is always fun and I know all the little secrets. Like how to make it so dancers
  don’t slip as easily, and how to make it shiny or not.  

  
  Nylons –
  Wash by hand or in the washing machine?
  
  I normally
  use them as some sort of filter and then just rinse them or throw them
  out

  Oven – Do
  you use the window or open the oven to check?
  Open the
  door you can’t burn yourself with it closed.

  Pizza – What
  do you put on yours?
  
  whatever

  
  Quiet
  – What do you do during the day when you get a quiet moment?
  I spend
  lots of time alone in the woods

  
  Recipe card
  box – Y/N? What does it look like?
  
  Who needs
  recipes. Most the time when I start cooking I don’t even know what I’m
  making  but it usually turns out
  good

  Style of
  house – What style is your house?
  Some
  day I would like a self-sufficient homestead with out any neighbors near by.
    I always said if I can walk out my
  front door and throw a rock and hit my neighbor’s window someday I’m going to do
  it and it will only lead to trouble   so
  I’m going to avoid that. Also have to have a barn and a workshop or
  two.

  
  Tablecloths
  and napkins – Y/N?
  For
  what?… although a very nice young lady has made several nice reminders that it
  is proper to get a napkin so I do try to remember now.  Otherwise see the question about
  aprons

  Under the
  kitchen sink – Organized or toxic wasteland?
  I don’t
  know

  Vacuum – How
  many times per week?
  It is
  really noisy and I try to avoid it

  
  Wash – How many
  loads of laundry do you do per week?
  I go most
  weeks without doing any I have more clothing then one weeks worth then I confuse
  which pants and shirts I have worn so I only do wash when I run out of socks and
  underwear but since in college I want 2 months without doing wash, I just want
  to the store and purchased more. I only do wash about once a month now

  X’s – Do you
  keep a daily list of things to do that you cross off?
  I
  should

  Yard – Y/N?
  Who does what?
  I cut
  down brush and make big burn piles. I like doing outdoor work.

  
  Zzz’s – What
  is your last homemaking task for the day before going to bed?
  
  no set
  thing.

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