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Home-Making

February 18, 2009

What does your home feel like when you walk into it? Does it create feelings of warmth, peace, happiness and cause you to feel ‘at home?’ Does it feel like a haven, like the place where you can create memories?
When you walk in your front door do you groan because everything is such a wreck? [...]

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Being Your Children’s First Teacher

February 11, 2009

If you have children you are their first teacher, whether you mean to be or not. Today I want to explore some ways to be their teacher on purpose. I’m not talking specifically about homeschooling, although that certainly fits in, I’m talking about taking responsibility for what your children are learning and creating an [...]

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Menu Planning And Grocery Shopping

February 4, 2009

Welcome to the next part of the Almost Lost Domestic Arts Series. In an earlier segment of this series I shared my experience learning to cook from scratch. Let’s just say it wasn’t an automatic thing for me. Learning to cook was great but planning to cook is another thing entirely.
Intending to cook from scratch is [...]

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Do You Garden? Do You Can?

January 28, 2009

Welcome to the 4th part of the Almost Lost Domestic Arts Series. Today we’re taking a look at Growing and Preserving Produce.
I’m a beginner at both gardening and canning. I’ve had a vegetable garden for two years and I’ve only ever canned two different things; tomatoes and strawberry jam. My yard is small and only [...]

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Welcome Home, Dinner’s In The Oven

January 21, 2009

Welcome to the third part of the Almost Lost Domestic Arts Series. Today’s art is Cooking From Scratch.
Some of you know I’ve been married for 6 years. Previous to that it never occurred to me that I didn’t cook very well. I’d helped my mother in the kitchen many times and thought I had absorbed [...]

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