Homemaking

Things I am thankful for: cleaning supplies

Julie / August 17, 2010

This would be better titled, “Things I can’t live without,” except, well, in God’s sovereignty we can pretty much live without anything! Kitchen I love those little Dobie scrubbies.  Seriously, I just ordered a case of “˜em off Amazon.  The secret?  Stop thinking of them as dishrags.  They work amazingly, fantastically, and cleaning-fluid-free-ly on countertops.  And walls.  And refrigerators.  And…

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Time Management

When Mommy’s sick.

Julie / August 16, 2010

So, our nice little routine hit a big hurdle this weekend: I got really sick.  Some kind of weird, short-lived, severe stomach bug, but suffice it to say, I wasn’t getting anything done at all.  I ventured out of bed just once to try to make myself a cup of tea and promptly threw up before I made it back…

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Marriage

Early Marriage and Maturity

Julie / August 12, 2010

Something that has been much on my mind lately–and much on the blogosphere for the past year or so–is early marriage. Seth and I got married when I was twenty.  Most of the rest of the kids I went to church with that were my age got married years after I did.  At the time I thought it was more…

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