It’s here!
My new blog - Resolvedtobe.com
I will be blogging there from now on and more frequently, so be sure to change your bookmarks.
My sweetie pie of a daughter, Emily Rose, has designed my beautiful new blog and finished it just in time for an anniversary present. Rob and I are celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary yesterday.
I hope you enjoy the new design and blog.
Blessings,
Robin
Have you ever needed to mend or alter something and not know where to start? Maybe you wanted to make something entirely new for your home, or perhaps—like me—you were just getting frustrated with the choice of clothes at the stores for your daughters.
Then you need to learn how to sew!
Head on over to Raising Homemakers and I will show you how to start getting familiar with your sewing machine. It will open up a whole new world of creativity, beauty and practicality!
Today is an exciting day! A brand new website called Raising Homemakers is launching.
It is a place for all of us ladies to learn more about homemaking and how to teach these skills to our daughters. It will be a place of inspiration to bring the art of homemaking to not only our families, but to future generations.
My daughters and I are blessed to be able to be a part of this new website along with some amazing women who want to share what they have learned and what they are still learning about homemaking You will find the contributors to be women of all different ages and in various stages of life. That will bring an exciting variety to the information shared.
So click on over and take a look around. Sarah Mae, who came up with this wonderful idea, is launching the site with some great give-aways. Go.
I obviously haven’t been blogging much, so what have I been up to?
Over the past couple of months our family has taken two trips, realized that some members of our family need to be on a gluten-free diet, learning how to cook gluten-free, and over-seeing some new projects.
And….coming to the end of being an active homeschool mom. Yep. Emily Rose is finishing her last year of “official” home education and will be graduating. However, I will always be a homeschool mom. I am not giving up that title! It has been such a wonderful title, I think it should be on my grave stone someday as well. Something like, “The Lord blessed her by allowing her to be a homeschool mom.”
I am so excited about the changes over at the Ladies Against Feminism website. This site has long been a place of encouragement for my daughters and I. It was re-launched yesterday with a new design and all new articles. There will be several giveaways going on over the next few days, too. The site features several authors who will be keeping the site updated with great articles that will both challenge and strengthen women in their biblical roles.
One of the exciting things about the new LAF is that my daughter, Emily Rose, was blessed to be able to create the new design. It has been such a joy to watch the creative process take place and know that it will be a blessing to so many others.
One of the giveaways featured will be two bundles of the Daughters of His Story Paper Dolls.
I hope you enjoy the new LAF as much I do!
My sister, Lou, wrote a sweet post today about our sister. Hop on over to her blog to read it. And would you please pray for our dear sister, "G".
"I am resolved to be a good Mother to my children, to pray for them, to set them good examples, to give them good advice, to be careful both of their souls and bodys, to watch over their tender minds; to carefully root out the first appearing and budings of vice, and to instill piety, Virtue and true religion into them."
Personal resolutions written by Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1723-1793,
which she read to herself each day,
and resolved "by the Grace of God assisting me to keep."
By night when others soundly slept,
And had at once both ease and rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.
I sought Him whom my soul did love,
With tears I sought Him earnestly;
He bowed His ear down from above.
In vain I did not seek or cry.
My hungry soul He filled with good,
He in His bottle put my tears,
My smarting wounds washed in His blood,
And banished thence my doubts and fears.
What to my Savior shall I give,
Who freely hath done this for me?
I’ll serve Him here whilst I shall live
And love to Him to eternity.
-Anne Bradstreet-
Breezy just added a print to her etsy shop featuring a mother and her new child. This print is dedicated to helping the orphans in Haiti. For each print sold she will donate $10 to Rescue Haiti’s Children.
This is a wonderful way to not only help these children, but also to get a print of her beautiful work. This particular piece shows the beautiful emotion of a mother’s love. You can get to her etsy shop here.
One week ago today, our Breezy Tulip turned 19. This year, Breezy wanted to sew and do some baking for her birthday. She sewed a couple of skirts, a journal cover and a little wallet. She also made some whoopie pies using this recipe. Instead of a cake for her birthday we put her 19 candles on one of the whoopie pies….hence the flaming whoopie pie.
As usual, books were the choice gifts for her birthday.
On another note, we have prayed for years that the Lord would bless the work of our daughter’s hands. And so it is a joy to see how the Lord uses the talents He has blessed them with to bless others. This week Breezy began a series of original paintings to sell and will give 100% of the sales to the Rescue Haiti’s Children Fund. She has one painting finished and is working on the next. Her plans are to create six paintings based on Matthew 25:35-36. You can visit her blog to see updates as she posts the paintings as she finishes them. After they are all finished she will put them in her Etsy shop for sale.
Sometimes I have flops in the kitchen or things don’t taste "right" to me and it used to bother me, but not anymore. Why? My sweet mom is a wonderful cook, she can make the yummiest foods and she still cooks for us girls almost every other week as my sisters and our daughters gather at her house to spend some time together. As she has gotten "older" she says her cooking just doesn’t taste right or that it flopped.
While it may be that things don’t taste the same to her I think her cooking is still the best!
- Carmen J. Crofton
Robinlyn