Friday, September 24, 2021

Develop a Routine at Home

Thank you for your kind attention to Homemaking Radio today. Please enjoy

life at home while you listen.

Things I discussed today:

Create some daiy rituals you will follow no matter how bad the news is.

Find ways to make late afternoons as enjoyable as early mornings.

Anti-anxiety links I suggested:

Detox

Natural Tea

Butterfly Waltz Violin Concerto

Summer Sounds

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Education at Home

Good morning, and welcome to The Manse. Please

enjoy being at home and take a break from the world's stress while you listen to today's broadcast.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Home Detox from the World

Hello Dear Friends,

Welcome to The Manse, and to Homemaking Radio. Go for a stroll, put something in order, or sit and listen and take an hour off from the anxiety

Check these sites for anti-anxiety tips:

Gentle Exercise for Anxiety

Anxiety Remedy

Anti-Anxiety Food

Dr. Berg - Fight or Flight

Dr. Berg - Anxiety: Digestion and Elimination Connection

Dr. Berg - Hidden Causes of Stress

Another anti-anxiety solution:

A Vacation

Look carefully at the spelling here. A lot of people missed it!

"I know this is controversial.

But I am 100% in

support of mandatory

VACATIONS

for everyone, and booster

vacations every 4 months."

**********

I reviewed the Stampin' Up catalog, which you can order $4.00 at Stampin Up.com

I find the website not nearly as appealing as the actual catalog, which I browse just for relaxation.

I read from the book: In the Garden With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

and

Grammar and Composition 1 for Christian Schools by ABeka

I also read from "Beautiful Girlhood" the chapter on making friends with books.

I hope you all will suffer from unbearable happiness today.

Other things I mentioned:

Roman Army Camps

"Helpful" Kitchen Chair

Thought Nutrition:

We should always be cheerful.

The times may be difficult,

But a sad and gloomy countenance will not make them easier.

The flower is made by the sunshine;

It is not made by the clouds.

Our hearts can be filled with warmth

From the good things around us.

We may have troubles,

But we should not allow discouragement.

No one can be completely free from problems;

We should extract courage and fortitude from them.

We should look on the bright ide of everything,

And then we can received the maximum happiness from each day.

from Grammar and Composition 1, page 60, by ABeka.

Thursday, September 16, 2021

A Day at Home

Good Morning,

Please enjoy waking up and having a day at home, while hearing today's Homemaking Radio broadcast:

Highlights of Todays Broadcast:

Slow down enough to let your thoughts catch up to your activities.

It is hard to "abound" without a steady stream of gratefulness.

Developing good manners means you can be low income but not unrefined.

Give yourself a Thrive assignment.

By keeping the home, we are building up teachings and values for future generations.

Crowd out anxious thoughts with gratefulness.

How will you use your freedom after captivity, compared to what you did with it before?

Learn how to abound.

Read aloud.

Write a Letter.

Make up a small package.

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Turning CIrcumstances into Advantages for the Home

Greetings Everyone,

Above, you see my latest dusk picture at the moment the birds were getting ready to retire for the night.

Please enjoy part of your time in the home while listening:

Some of the things I talked about in this broadcast:

*Reasons to take care of your appearance, in the home.

*Using the bad manners of other people or the gunge jobs as an opportunity to advance in the home.

*Daniel said he and his friends would not eat the king's food. Daniel chapter 1.

*Learn new creative skills.

*Eat food as close to its natural form as possible.

The Standard Book of Ettiquette, 1948, By Lillian Watson -- on social conversation, to be careful not to air your own griefs and hardships, to the point of depressing others.

I saw this cute pumpkin on the Hobby Lobby site, (as well as in the store) and am busy experimenting with cloth, trying to get it to flop over unevenly like this. This artificial pumpkin is so realistically and whimsically mis-shapen.

Monday, September 06, 2021

Keep Your Hearts and Minds

Please enjoy your work while you listen to the broadcast.

Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Courtesy in the Home is For Your Own Comfort

Please enjoy the anti-anxiety atmosphere while you tend your home.

Today I suggested some natural, age-old, time-proven anti-anxiety remedies:

Look for anti-anxiety exercises and try them

Put something in order, sort our something, do something tedious while listening.

The practice of courtesy prevents friction and anxiety.

I read from the 1948 manners book: The Standard Book of Ettiquette by Lillian Watson.

Today I broadcast in my kitchen which I have embellished with fabric and things from my sewing supplies.

The Little Chap Who Follows Me!

A careful man I want to be;
A little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray
For fear he'll go the self same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes,
Whate'er he sees me do, he tries.
Like me he says he's going to be;
The little chap who follows me.

He thinks that I'm so very fine,
Believes in every word of mine.
The base in me he must not see;
The little chap who follows me.

I must remember as I go
Through summer's sun and winter's snow,
I'm building for the years to be;
The little chap who follows me.

Author: Unknown

Welcome

" So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home."

This is a Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 teaching blog, where you will find some ideas for creating the kind of home life that gives you a sense of well-being, creativity and accomplishment. It will help you understand the reasons for being the Biblical keepers of the home, as opposed to the world's answer of being career women outside of the home.

I really hope to help restore the culture of the home, which is a never-changing precept of the Bible: marriage, home and family. Young women especially need to know there is something else of greater importance than college and career, and that they play a vital role in making a stable family. In order to have strong marriages, respectful children, and good churches, women need to return to the home. My blog is based on the precept of First Timothy 5, verse 14:

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully..."

These articles are designed to give the homemaker ideas for doing an excellent job in the home and for enjoying the role of homemaker and guide of the house. Marriage, the family and home life is splintered. Women must be allowed to return to the home.

The Queen's Ire

England's Queen Victoria wrote in 1870, "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."-- Queen Victoria, 1870.

Home

"Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…" ~Tasha Tudor

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris

For Ladies and Home, and Those Who Want to Be