Creating a home of Busyless can start with one corner of your home. Having a designated place of refuge for daily rest will help with the new habit of your desire to stop being too busy. It will be a reminder of your commitment to the obedience of God’s rest that He has for you. The hardest part comes later The hardest part about starting a new habit is to keep doing the new habit until it becomes a part of our life. You can read about it, make up your mind to do it, maybe do it for a short time, and then you still may return to the…
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How to Be OK with a New Season of Life
Good seasons, bad seasons Spring is a season full of hope and expectation for a gardener. The long, dreary winter days are coming to a close and the rest of the year is anticipated to be a good one. Spring brings fresh growth and summer brings family fun. But, by the end of Fall, a gardener may only see a long, cold, dreary winter that will follow. A downward spiral begins. Sometimes, it’s hard to be ok with a change of seasons. Our seasonal life patterns Our life is full of seasons and we can often view them like the gardener I just described. We would much rather view seasons…
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Fresh Caprese Salad: It’s What Happens When You Have Basil
How to make 100% fresh Caprese Salad.
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The Versatile Box Grater is the Smartest Kitchen Tool There Is
No, Really! You want fresh coleslaw and you don’t want to drag out the heavy food processor. Not to mention all the pieces of the alleged time-saver that you have to wash afterward. Your old-fashioned box grater is one of the most valuable, versatile tools in your kitchen drawer. I can show you some tips that will make it even more valuable! Really! The amazing box grate is amazingly versatile, it’s cheap, and it saves a ton of time in the kitchen. The box grater has two different sized grating holes, a slicer and a zester, all in one! It helps if you know a couple of tricks on how…
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How to Harvest and Preserve Green Beans
Green beans are the perfect beginner gardener's vegetable. Green beans are easy to grow, harvest, and preserve. The best thing about green beans is that they don’t require much attention and they are very prolific for the effort you put into them.
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How to Tell if You Are Too Busy
The second post of this series, “How to Stop Being So Busy” is finding out if you really are too busy. Many people would admit that they are too busy, but others honestly don’t know that their hectic lifestyle is taking a toll on themselves and their family. Sadly, some people can be so incredibly busy that they can’t sit down for a while and wonder if things could be different.
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The Perfect Coconut Cream Cake That Your Whole Family Will Love
Topped with crunchy, toasted coconut, this perfect, tender cake is filled with a dreamy, comforting cream filling that takes this cake to a whole new happy level. Your family will love it.
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How to Stop Being So Busy
If a sense of “something’s wrong” is stirring in your heart, it very well may be that being too busy is driven by an unhealthy hidden felt need. That sense of “something’s wrong” may have grown to a great sense of overwhelm with the whole picture of your life.
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Better Than Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry Bread
Better Than Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry Bread will become your favorite strawberry recipe. Drizzle with fresh strawberry glaze for a rich dessert.
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Super Practical Ways to Prepare for a Hurricane
Hurricanes are never welcome, but we can turn inconveniences into good family memories. It all depends on what we prepare for. Turn complaints into thankfulness and let your imagination create fun games, stories, and contests with any work that may need to be done. It’s super easy and fairly inexpensive to prepare. Get started with these helpful ideas and recipes for you and your family. Before I share what worked for us and how we used our imaginations for solutions, this article is for recovery for minor damages and inconveniences. Category one hurricanes are fairly easy to navigate in comparison to the more “serious” hurricanes where lives, livelihood, and loss…
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The top 7 Vegetables to Grow in the Fall and Where to Buy Them
Sweet carrots, broccoli that keeps on giving, tender round green beans, mustard that springs up year after year, Italian green beans that add comfort to stews,…..they feel like old friends. I can’t wait for September to get here and I can plant these veggies for my Fall garden here in central Florida. Those first garden filled seasons many years ago were one experiment after another. I had to learn by trial and error which varieties were best and how to care for them. I love experiments. Especially if they work! But sometimes they don’t. Green beans that earn their name, “string” beans, can be so fibrous you won’t want them,…
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What is the Best Book to Help with Simple Living?
“When it comes to what we writers do……we are like beggars who try to show other beggars where we found bread.” David Brooks (quoting D.T. Niles) The Second Mountain pg. XXX introduction Simple Living: The search for the best book. There’s good ones, and some are not so good. I love it when an author shares nuggets of wisdom. Sometimes, a good book will go on a bookshelf and will be read again. I have one that I have read at least four times. Every time I read it, it applies to my life in a different way because I’m in a different place in my life journey. I love…
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Why You Need a Simple School Schedule With NO Regrets
When my premie neared the age of deciding what we were going to do about school, I knew it wasn’t a matter of where he would be going. He was not nearly ready for formal education. Back in the early 80s, in a small southern town, I was afraid this child of mine would be put in a “dumb” class, be labeled, and then, he would carry that stigma with him for the rest of his life. I had no reason to think otherwise- that’s how it was when I went to school, in the 60s and 70s. Isn’t that awful? Simple living for our family. One day, I happened…
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What to Do With All That Wonderful Papaya
The Dilemma It began as an unplanned surprise gift that came out of a compost pile. It went from “what is that?” to blessing me with an incredible amount of fruit. In fact, there was so many that I couldn’t keep up with the bounty. I had a dilemma! I began giving away papaya. At least, I tried. I’m pretty sure my take on papaya being wonderful is not shared by everyone. It’s an acquired taste for sub-tropical and tropical tastebuds only! There were not many takers. I admit I left a couple on a neighbor’s doorstep when they weren’t home! What was I going to do with all that…
