Abandoned Hope

Cast off the mooring, The rope in the boat, And watched it floating away.

Hope and Grief

I suppose I had better get this out of the way. Without putting too fine a point on it, I am no longer pregnant. It has been a week now and although grief has a nasty way of winding you when you least expect it, coming over you in unexpected waves as it does, I …

Homemaking Revolution

I stumbled across this blog post this evening and loved the sound of it and actually, as you know, my background is very 'traditional' but my heart pulls me in two seemingly opposing directions (career woman Starship captain/ homemaker, wife and mother), so I love the idea of successfully combining traditional homemaking with a healthy …

Becoming the Ultimate Housewife: 1950s Housewife

Shavua tov ladies! 🙂 This is just a little bit of fun really, but I wonder - how much of this do you aspire to?  How much of this is cultural, dated and irrelevant now, and how much the Biblical ideal/ pattern for wives? http://www.ultimatehousewife.com/2013/02/1950s-housewife.html?m=1

Peanut Butter and Jelly Challah

A quick share! I won't be making this today but I will definitely be adding this to my list of recipes to try! 🙂 http://www.kveller.com/recipe-peanut-butter-jelly-challah/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=nosherfacebook

Red Herrings

In May we started the process of buying a flat. It was beautiful and big, but it had no garden or parking, no garage or storage, and it would have necessitated moving towns amongst other things. It seemed like a good idea at the time - it was a nice town that we all liked …

How to pray when life hurts?

This year seems to have been one upset, catastrophe, tragedy after another. I won't dwell on the particulars. But this verse came up in my daily readings and I felt an immediate identification with it: "If the LORD be with us, why hath all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our …