About Us

My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 22 years. Our children are Hope (19), Lenny (15), Lily (11), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (6). Six doggies round out our happy brood.

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Road Trip – YEE HAA!!!

The children and I are headed away on a roadtrip tomorrow a.m. We are off to visit Julie in beautiful Wisconsin. Please pray for travel mercies. Hubby will mind the homefront and our tribe of doggies!!!

Just returned from seeing “Bella”. It is truly a must see for teens on up!!! Please [...]

Lily’s New Skirt

Well I dusted off my sewing machine which has seen little more than mending lately. And boy, did I have fun with this cute skirt that I made for Lily. I read about it on Michele Quigley’s sewing forum called “On Pins & Needles”. The tutorial on Grand Revival made it quite [...]

The “Executive” Mother

I took this quiz about my “Mothering Style” over at MotheringStyles and thought it pegged me pretty well. Yes, I am a CONTROL FREAK!!!

HT: Leonie

Your type is: entj —The “Executive” Mother

“My mind is always going. How can I fine-tune the system to everyone’s advantage?”

Competent and confident in a management role, [...]

Exterminate!!! Exterminate!!! Exterminate!!!

Well you’ll have to be a die-hard SciFi fan to appreciate this story. My husband loves “Doctor Who” and his favorite Doctor Who (there have been many over the last 40 years) is Tom Baker. Recently he borrowed “The Genesis of the Daleks” with Tom Baker from the library. It is from [...]

A Comfy Spot to Rest

Peter found a comfy spot to rest at the end of a hard day – DADDY!!!

Victory!!!!!!!!!

Well today Lily had her second “lesson” on her bike without training wheels. It was a complete success!!! I practically had a coronary trying to keep up with her as she pedalled first with me and then alone. She was so happy and so was I!!!

Sometimes you take a crash on [...]

Some Random Thoughts

I got a real thrill out of discovering through my site referrals that someone on a Swedish site linked to my blog. I have not a clue what was said about me (the Swedish to English translators I found online weren’t great) but I got a kick out of it anyway. Perhaps they [...]

“I Have the Power”

Don’t know how well this anecdote will translate into words but I thought I’d try to share it anyway…

While picking up the house with the children this morning, my son Lenny (11) started complaining about his lot in life or something to that effect. Usually this gives me fits but as I determined at morning [...]

Happy Birthday Mom and Dad!!!

Today my wonderful mother joined the seventies club (shush…don’t tell the neighbors!!!) and my terrific father turned 71 several weeks ago. They really are great people and I don’t think I thank them enough for all they have done for me and continue to do for me.

First and foremost, they raised [...]

Passionate Housewives: Desperate For God

Crystal Paine over at BiblicalWomanhood.com is holding a give-away for this new book. Here is the link. I encourage you to enter to win one of the 10 books being given away. I look forward to buying a copy if I am not one of the winners!!!