Is Not Easily Provoked

The Happiest Kids in the World By: Rina Mae Acosta & Michelle Hutchison Recommend or not, to whom, for what reason: Yes. Recommend to parents (Particularly Mothers). To increase awareness and broaden understanding of different ways to do parent and to view the privilege of parenting.  3 Things of Interest: 1. This book has provoked reflections on my own upbringing, how it influences the current parenting style we use in our home, and how society is influencing parenting anxieties in the US, Britain, and Holland. As these influences have been brought to light its has provided opportunity to determine if those influences will be aloud to persist or be dismissed. We don't know what we don't know, but once we do we can make better decisions 2. When we realize every human (whether from wealth or poverty, this culture or that) has the same basic needs, parenting becomes rather simple and straight forward. Not easy, but simple. "Mom-guilt" loosens its grip, and so can th...

Musings on food. To man there is physical and spiritual. But to God all things are spiritual, and every law he has ever given is a spiritual law. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual all seem to be man made distinctions to help us break up or break down our understanding of the multi dimensionality of spiritual. Which everything is. Plants are designed to grow in certain seasons, which are also spiritual. They are designed to draw specific minerals and nutrients into them which create a response in our bodies on every level of spirit (the current subcategories we understand are physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). Observing in nature, animals eat what nature provides, each fruit/plant/etc. in the season it is designed to germinate and produce in. The vegetation which is produced in a year is what will provide the resiliency, defense, immunity for the climate and all that lives in it. Root vegetables, winter squashes, apples, foods late in the year seem to stick for longer in ...

Questions What is your relationship with Christ? - Is he an active part of your life? Or do you only reach out when things are hard? - Is he YOUR way, YOUR truth, and YOUR life in life? - Do you seek him daily? - How do you show him he is the most important relationship you have? - Do you spend time with him in the temple? - Is it a check box relationship, or one you live for? - Is he your foundation, or your sidekick? - How is this showing up in your life? What is your vision of marriage? - Is it in alignment with what God says creates a successful marriage, or is it persuaded by cultural attitudes on men and marriage? - Is it centered in self and self gratification, or in service and love? - Are there any revisions you'd like to make to your vision of marriage? Who are your role models in marriage? - Are there any couples who you see which you love the dynamic of their relationship and the home and family and life they have created together? - Why? - What do...

I'm not very good at MANY things. But I am good at some. We all have some natural gifts or a natural spirit about us endowed by God. Some I have noticed are my responsibility are: * Obedience * Follower * Moldable These strengths are frequently talked of in pop culture as great weaknesses. Perhaps we are similar, and have allowed this to get us down at times. But upon remembering where the strength in these gifts lie, those fears are dispelled. The strength isn't in the person themselves, but in the master they serve. The master brings about the fruits of the labor performed. The master leads, directs, instructs, trains their servant to what they would have them be. So if the master we choose is the world, yes these attributes would be weaknesses indeed. But when the master is the Father of our soul, our Heavenly Father, who is constant and unchanging, who works all things for our good, we have all reason to hope and none to fear. We can walk through the storm on the water unbo...

Where was I this time last year? Here. Doing the same things I'm doing now... but different some how. Not as deeply. Not as committed then as I'm finding myself to be now. What are three things I'm sick to look back on in 2023? ..so much so I hope nobody finds out. 1. I tried to orchestrate and manipulate my sweetheart to come to a training with me. It doesn't matter if I believed it would be really helpful to him. I looked past his individual humanity and treated him as a problem to be solved, tho I didn't recognize it until after the fact. Not acceptable. Not the way I desire to honor and respect my husband. 2. Our freezer full of locally grown ground beef was turned off...and I didn't notice until a week or so late. Ugh. The money lost? Yes a real bummer. But the smell... 3. I didn't keep the committments I made to myself about recording homeschool doings every day and my personal reading goals. What are three things I am proud of accomplishing through Ch...