All Things Home and Family
This year's home made project for Christmas gifts was fun. The idea came from a friend's sister who was making them for her family. When I was a child, I had an aunt who helped her children create gifts every Christmas at home with their own tools and talents. I was amazed and jealous and intimidated… Continue reading Christmas Coasters
Mom, this is just to let you see in for glimpse of us and ours at Christmastime. Actually, this was taken the week before Christmas. Benny's first time of making Christmas cookies. … Continue reading Christmas Scenes For My Mom
The day/year started out at 21 below zero this morning. The wage earners around here rolled out of bed and went to work in spite of the cold. We girls put Christmas stuff away and swept up a lot of wood stove dust. It's a typical after Christmas, beginning of the new year day. Some… Continue reading Monopoly
A fresh snow is falling this morning. Just in time for a lovely white Christmas.A Christmas gift of lace and new family calenders came to my door from Mom. Table LaceMom crocheted this lace over 25 years ago. The note in the package said, "I don't use this anymore." Imagine my delight! Frances is home. Can you… Continue reading Christmas Lace
You can pass this off as just another one of stonehousescribblings’ little rants or not as you wish. I am not writing this to impress you with anything about me. I am just attempting, from my own small and sheltered world view, to blow the whistle on something that I happen to think is important.… Continue reading Mennonites and Movies
They say that time flies when you’re having fun. We ARE enjoying these short winter days. I looked it up and verified that in Northern Wisconsin we are having our shortest days. About 8 1/2 hours a day from actual sunrise to sunset. So morning coffee is by lamplight and the soft… Continue reading The Short Days
Christmas music and song is everywhere. I listened in on VCY for a few minutes in the car yesterday. That’s about how long I can last on VCY America, but that is beside the point here. VCY carols run along the same lines as our Mennonite Christmas songs: carols with lyrics telling… Continue reading Christmas Songs For You
Christmas Lists are in the making. I have always felt silly making a list for Christmas. Somehow it feels presumptuous. But maybe it is time to grow up and think about others more than myself. So I made a list. Lo, it is a lot of fun. On my list, among other things I… Continue reading It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas
The Sparta Grabers hosted the Graber family gathering this year. Marlene and Jen went all out decorating and cooking for us. Bruce smoked a turkey for our meal. Mom made the pies as usual. Pumpkin, Apple and Brown Sugar Pies. Mom is in her eighties. Nobody will be able to duplicate her exact Brown Sugar… Continue reading Thanksgiving 2012
Sunday afternoon stretches out before us: no company, no plans, and completely ours to do as we wish. The teenagers head for their rooms or the nearest couch to sprawl and snooze. Elv and I sit here in the living room not talking and on our computers. The fire flickers in the stove,… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Scribbling
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