Woman of the House

Lake Michigan--gorgeous! It really has been two months since I last made a blog post!  This summer has been full of traveling, gardening, and planning.  Two trips took us to four states I ...

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         Listening~ The Forgotten Man:  A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Schlaes has been on my list for a long time.  I'm glad I finally managed to get to it (thanks, Hoopl...

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I used to dream about how much time I'd have when my children were grown.  I'd sew and read and blog and and volunteer and wonder what to do with my time!  Ha!  When your husband is in ministr...

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ing~ Listening~ How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt    A good counterargument for the "religion ruins everything" crowd, at least as far as Christianity is concerned.  Sc...

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My mother-in-law, who lives nearby in an assisted-living facility (by her own choice), put in a request for gingersnaps recently.  Though I could have bought some, I wanted to make them because ...

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In the past nine days we have hosted three separate dinners for nine or more people!  The first was our (meaning Wittenberg Door 's) twice-monthly Friday night dinner for international students,...

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Reading~ The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn   I received this book for Christmas.  I add...

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I've had time to do some extra cleaning this month, so last week Hannah and I gave her room a deep clean and I also did the pantry.  It had been quite awhile since I had tackled the pantry, and ...

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 "Mrs Willet can tackle a hundred jobs, without having been specifically taught any of them.  She can salt pork or beef, make jams, jellies, wines, chutneys and pickles; she can bake pies--wit...

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. . . was actually yesterday, and I missed it.  But I did pretty well with my pledge to post everyday during the Christmas season, don't you think? Let's wrap up the list of what I read in 20...

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Elizabeth Shippen Green More from my 2017 reading list~~ Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery--Two more childhood favorites and always so much fun!  When I was growing ...

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I blew it.  I didn't get a post up yesterday.  So today I will just pick up where I left off and tell some more about my 2017 reading. Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at the Vicarage, an...

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More from my 2017 reading list~ Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Anthony Esolen--The best book I read this year!  Dr. Esolen's insights into diagnoses of what is ailing American...

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Blessed seventh day of Christmas and the celebration of the circumcision of the Lord!  For the next few posts I will share my quick impressions of the books I read or listened to in 2017.  The...

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I've caught the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad cold (flu?) that's been going around, what seems like, the entire country. It's definitely putting a damper on our twelve-day celebration.  ...

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Handel's Messiah is a staple of the Christmas season.  In this interview , Dr. Joseph Herl of Concordia University-Nebraska explores the theme of Christ's incarnation in this magnificent compos...

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Every Christmas season there seems to be one particular Christmas hymn or song that stands out to me, one that sheds light on some aspect of Christ's nativity heretofore uncontemplated.  It's s...

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Today is the feast day of St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr. "GRANT, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and ...

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Every year around this time I either read or listen to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. I find it an excellent reminder to love our neighbors at all times of the year, not just Christmas time....

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We will be celebrating the full twelve days of Christmas around here, and I will try my very best to post something each day. Day One~ This photo is from divine service Christmas morning....

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If you're like me and Must.Have.Flowers, even in wintertime, let me give you a few ideas for bringing blooms into your house without breaking the bank.  Besides buying bouquets at the grocery s...

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It's hard to know what to say when you've taken an unintentional two-month-plus blog break.  How do you jump back in?  Do you apologize?  Do you explain?  Do you just reappear?  I think I'l...

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"Perhaps had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that is was good and...

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Zinnias are such rewarding flowers!  They are easy to grow from seed, they flourish even with abject neglect once germinated, and then they burst forth with bright, big blooms.  Once they ...

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Picking up where we left off. . . Though we stayed the entire time in London, we spent a day in Oxford and a day in Cambridge, which we got to by train.  That was all we saw of the English co...

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