Homemakers are INDISPENSABLE!!!

"If we choose not to do this very special job (homemaking), it will simply not get done. The mothering, the nurturing, the comforting, and caring that fills the committed homemaker's day will simply be lost & impoverished. Children will not get the spiritual guidance they need. Lonely teenagers will not be listened to. Many people with problems will not be ministered to. Many sick folk will go unvisited. A special human quality will disappear from our culture.

Women can give up their jobs as clerks, engineers, sales people, doctors--other people will step in and the world will go on as smoothly as before. It will be business as usual. The groceries will still be sold, trucks loaded with merchandise will still roll across our highway, and Wall Street will carry on." (maybe? maybe not?)

"Not so with homemaking. We are the special people into whose hands the country and the world have been entrusted. When we leave this job, the world does not go on as before. It falters and begins to lose its way. We homemakers are indispensable."

~Mary LaGrand Bouma

My first attempt at making a baby sling

Here, my dear daughter & baby son are modeling the sling I just made for a friend of ours who just had her first baby. This was my first attempt at making these baby carrier/slings. The fabric was great to work with! A dear friend of mine made one for me a couple years ago & I just LOVE it! I've had SO many compliments about it, that I decided to start making some myself! They are great not only for newborns but for toddlers too! And every stage in between! Very comfy to wear & allows me to be hands-free!

Being Thankful in not so happy times

Mr. D & I just celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary last month. It's hard to believe how much we've gone through together over the years. So much has happened. Good & bad. But one thing I can say for sure is that those difficult times, whether they were/are marital, financial or otherwise, have only strengthened our relationship. Trials are meant to strengthen character; James 1:2-4. That's the good that comes from them. That's the way I try to look at them & make them useful in life, as difficult as that is to do. Yes, life is hard, but in Christ, it is not without hope! It is also precious, fragile, & fleeting. Each of us must determine in our minds to either make the most of it or waste it.

My love for my husband is deeper today than it ever was. I can honestly say that it's because the Lord kept us stuck together through thick & thin! I'm so thankful to God for him. And when he makes me mad, I try to think of all the things that I am thankful for about him. That always helps me to refocus on what I love about him & why I chose to share my life with him.

a GREAT BIG thank you!!!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU goes to Miss Emily for doing such a WONDERFUL job of designing my blog! I absolutely LOVE it! Thank you for being patient with me through it all. Blessings to you dear!

A favorite quote...

"To nourish children and raise them against the odds is, in any time, any
place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear
weapons."
-- Marilyn French