My Kitchen Prayer

Bless my little kitchen Lord
And light it with Thy Love.
Help me plan and make my meals
From Thy heavenly home above.
Bless our meals with Thy Presence
And warm them with Thy grace;
Watch over me as I do my work,
Washing pots and pans and plates.
The service I am trying to do
Is make my family content,
So bless my eager efforts Lord
and make them heaven sent.


This is from a plaque that I bought at a local thrift store.

Puritans on Marriage

"The woman is not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved"

Matthew Henry


"Her cheek was meant for thy lips, not for thy fist!"

"Before man had any other calling, he was called to be a husband....First man must choose his love, and then he must love his choice....The man and wife are partners, like two oars in a boat."

Henry Smith


"It is a mercy to have a faithful friend that loveth you entirely...to whom you may open your mind and communicate your affairs...And it is a mercy to have so near a friend to be a helper to your soul and...to stir up in you the grace of God"

Richard Baxter

Men and Flowers

"Sometimes a man has to give flowers to a woman.Even if it's his own sister."

John-Boy Walton (The Waltons)


"Sensible girls won't let me send them 'flowers and things',so what can I do? My feelings must have a went."

Laurie (Little Women)


My favorite memory was when my father, one Christmas, promised to give my mom a flower once a week for one year--it may have been a flower from a florist or a bouquet of wildflowers which he had picked before returning home. She wouldn't know when he was to bring them, so as to make it very special. He always found the right moment to give it to her. Christmas lasted all year instead of just one day! This has always been a treasured memory, for a person doesn't have to do much to make someone feel special.

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Some (kids) Food Jokes

What did the baby corn say to the mama corn?






I want my pop corn!


How do you make a milkshake?





Say BOO! to a cow


Why did the boy throw butter out the window?





he wanted to see a butterfly.


These are from Dad's Book: Old-Fashioned Fun For The Family.

John Wycliffe Quote

John Gaunt,the Duke of Lancaster: You have gone too far this time.I have seen what you have written on the Holy Eucharist.

John Wycliffe:Transubstantiation is a modern doctrine.The Pope in the fourth lateran counsel proclaimed it less than two hundred years ago.

John Gaunt: I care not when it was proclaimed,it is believed throughout the whole of Christendom.

John Wycliffe: My noble Duke,the fact that something is believed by the mulitudes does not necessary make it true.


This is from the DVD Reformation Overview hosted by Ken Curtis.It has six 30 minute episodes on John Wycliffe,John Hus,Martin Luther,Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin,The Anabaptists and William Tyndale.

Books Read In 2008

1) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

2) An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

3) The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott

4) Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke

5) Love's Enduring Promise by Janette Oke

6) Mother by Kathleen Norris

7) Sarah,Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

8) Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan

9) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

10) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

11) Persuasion by Jane Austen

12) Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America by Jeff Pollard

13) Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

14) Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

15) Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Eliot

16) The Mark of A Man by Elisabeth Eliot

17)The Axioms of Separation by John E. Ashbrook (booklet)

18) The Bible ( listened to it on cd)

After reading other bloggers reading lists,I figured I should start reading some of the books I own.I have not read many books in a while.After reading the novels I have realized how much you miss by only watching the film version.later on I will share my thoughts on some of the books.