About Us

My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 20 years. Our children are Hope (17), Lenny (14), Lily (9), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (5). Five doggies round out our happy brood.

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Morning Basket

Image of The Wheel on the School

Image of Saints for Young Readers for Every Day, Vol. 1: January-June

Image of The New Saint Joseph First Communion Catechism

Image of A Child's Garden of Verses

Image of Romeo and Juliet

On the Nightstand

Image of The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

Image of The Magic of Ordinary Days

Image of Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way

Christmas Tableau Picture

Just a quick picture of my three oldest children from the Christmas tableau from Christmas Eve mass.  Aren’t my two angels and Joseph cute???

Where I’ve been…

I get wanderlust just looking at this map!!!

create your own visited states map

HT: Mary Ellen

Exercise with Frodo

For those of you couch potatoes like me who are looking for a way to get in shape after the holidays, I came across a website that has the “Walk to Rivendell” challenge.  We can walk ourselves healthy following Frodo’s path.  They have different distances that represent different parts of his [...]

Christmas Sewing Projects

Here is a list of the projects I have been working on over the last couple of weeks:

A train mat for Peter (like Joann’s: http://tenkidsandadog.blogspot.com/2007/11/train-playmat.html)

A lap quilt for Peter

A skirt for Lily
Several winter skirts for me – One down, one to go!!!
A denim quilt for [...]

Do I Treat My Family as Lovingly and Kindly as I Would a Stranger on the Street?

I just read a beautiful post by Cay Gibson over at Cajun Cottage Under the Oaks.  I think it is particularly appropriate during this Christmas season when I can feel squeezed and the “victims” of those stressed feelings are those that I love the most on God’s green earth – my husband and children.  Cay [...]

Frugal Friday: My Trusty Friend for Preserving Your Clothes

My perhaps most important laundry secret for saving your clothing from the garbage can is Spray and Wash stain stick.  I leave a stain stick in my top dresser drawer.  Every night, I “evaluate” the shirt I wore that day to see if it needs to be “stain sticked”.  It usually does because I always [...]

Making Your Home a Haven Challenge: Day 8

My bedroom was the object of today’s challenge at Biblical Womanhood.  This was another one of my hot-spots, particularly this time of year as I am doing a lot of sewing for Christmas.  We had a busy afternoon planned and I did not think I was going to get to this challenge today.  However, a [...]

Overheard

This morning I overheard my daughter, Lily (7), telling my son, Peter (2), that he was “as bossy as a mama.”  Now that’s an insult!!!

Making Your Home a Haven Challenge: Day 7+

Yesterday, Crystal’s challenge included taking on one project on which I’ve been procrastinating and decluttering one area.  Well the first part was easy – decluttering my purse and entering all our receipts into Quicken.  The second was another story.  It was a two day job (Hence the reason for this late post).  I attacked the home office.  [...]

Goodbye, Dear Friend

My much loved, much used Crockpot has cooked its final meal!!!  It owed me nothing as I bought it for $15 at Kohls at least five years ago!!!  Goodbye, dear friend!!!

My sweet son, Lenny, upon hearing that I was going to blog the demise of my Crockpot, uttered these words [...]