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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Welcome to our New Home at Lilies of Hope

I’m glad you have found your way to our new blog site.  Please consider bookmarking our new URL as the old one will only be up for about a month.  We are very excited about this move although my husband says that Wordpress “isn’t for mere mortals”.  He’s been diligently working on making my new [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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!!!

Dearest Alice

I have been a homeschooling mother for 8+ years but I am fairly new to Catholic homeschooling.  In fact I did not know that there was a Catholic homeschooling group in my area until this time last year.  Well what a blessing this community of home-schoolers has been for my family and me – the [...]

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Thought I’d post this link to a great blog about being a truly Biblical wife.  It may make my feminist friends cringe but the article reflects my feelings on the subject perfectly (my actions however are an imperfect reflection of my feelings – LOL). 

A special thanks to Elizabeth Foss for posting the link on her [...]