A Homegrown Family: Plain and Simple

Monday, August 16, 2010

Plain and Simple

Around the Cottage

Wisteria blooming in the early morning

Kittens playing in the trees

Sundials for school projects

reading with friends

reading in our quiet rooms

Doing more than just reading and book work for school, learning and using lifeskills for making the next day's breakfast. Homemade cinnamon rolls.

Simple suppers this one was really good white beans, black beans, with fresh tomatoes, herbs, and fresh green peppers over cornbread...Oh and fresh homegrown bean sprouts.

Our new microscope came in the mail and I think Buster enjoyed it more than we did. Our van finally after two weeks came home and the nice part is they gave us a big discount for our long wait.

Update: The van went back in the shop this morning...ugh! It started doing the same thing all over again I am just a little frustrated but oh well why waste the energy on something you can't do anything about. I just pray it is solved by Friday we have a youth temple trip Saturday and we're driving the youth.

Have a Blessed Day

Erika

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UnknownAugust 16, 2010 at 9:11 AM
The simple things bring the most joy in life, don't they? It looks like you are enjoying those things ~ I am sending a letter your way today. :) Have a beautiful week ahead!
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.