Category: Homemaking
Definitions: Love (#2)
Love
To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one’s children and friends; to love one’s country; to love one’s God.
Source: A 1913 dictionary
Find out more . . . about definitions at The Hope Chest.
Wheat Bread 101
Want to learn to make your own bread? Get started with Amy’s Wheat Bread 101. She says:
I love baking. For several years now, I’ve been making most of the bread we eat. But I remember the first time I tried to bake bread for my own family. The word “flop” doesn’t come close to describing it. I think “comical” would be more accurate. […]
So, I’m pretty sure she would understand if you’re intimidated or have failed before! Read more here: Wheat Bread 101 – Gospel Homemaking
Definitions: Love (#1)
Love
Preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
Source: A 1913 Dictionary
Find out more . . . about definitions at The Hope Chest.
Heads Up: “Kitchen Skills Bundle” SALE Ends Today! (Oct 27, 2015)
A big bundle of kitchen skills resources, on sale for only $7.77 ~ but you have to grab it TODAY!
“How to Teach Your Kids to Help In the Kitchen . . Without Creating a Disaster.”
Get it here: “Kitchen Skills Bundle” Sale – Last Call: Ends Tuesday! | The Tutor for Charlotte Mason & Classical Educators
Are Your Candles Safe?
Do you love candles?
The flickering light. The homeyness. The fragrance. The romance.
For all they have going for them, they do have drawbacks. Are your candles safe?
Everyone loves a nice smelling home, and candles are an easy aroma source! But did you know there are lots of toxins in candles, filling your home with more than just a nice fragrance?
Find out more: Toxins in Candles: Sad, But True – Keeper of the Home
Although you can certainly comment on the post over at Keeper of the Home, if you’d like to talk about it in a Hope Chest context, feel free to come back and comment here!
Reality Check: Do You Know How to Make MEALS?
There’s more than one way to be a good cook (or just to know how to cook, if you’re not really good). One tastes good but the other one matters more.
Do you know how to make food . . . or do you know how to make meals? Complete, nutritious, well-balanced, on-time meals, without assistance or tears? That is the question.
A good loaf of bread, a tasty casserole, the best mashed potatoes in the world don’t make an entire meal. A complete meal is even an entirely different undertaking from all of its elements separately. Even a simple, mediocre meal is better than a single spectacular dish, when it comes right down to having to live on it.
I’ve faced this reality myself. The fact is, I’m much better at making a single dish. That’s where my cooking skill really lies. Complete meals (on time!)? Hmmm. Not so much! But the thing is, the life of a home cook is made up of complete meals . . . and lots of them.
How are you doing? Can you plan good meals . . . and then bring them to fruition?
Reality Check: What Kind of Home Would You Have? (micro post)
I have a question for you.
Regardless of your ideas and ideals, what kind of home do you think you would really have?
If you were you and life was life. 😉
A Question About Your Homemaking Dreams (micro post)
Do you have enough energy to do everything you dream of doing?
If not, is your energy too low or are your dreams unrealistic?
What can you do to fix this issue so that the majority of your dream can actually come true?