Tuesday's Thought

"Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Prov. 16:24

God tells us often, in the Bible, about choosing our words carefully. Words determine if we are full of Prudence and Wisdom or fools in hast. I sometimes tend to be the later, no, most of the time. This is something I work on daily. Stop...think and carefully choose the words we want to say. "He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress." Prov 21:23. How many times have you spoken up to quickly and winced, wishing you could take it back? The old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is false! Words cut to the soul. From our children to our spouses and friends, they all deserve to be treated as we would want to be treated. With kind, thoughtful words.

Gods peace,

Dee

Tuesday's Tip

Today I'm posting a Tuesday's tip. I am going to try to do this each week. Something useful, hopefully. Please let me know if it helps you.

Dee's "Kill A Cold Drink"

1 mug of hot water
1 freshly pressed garlic clove (powder or jar doesn't work)

less than 1/8 tsp Cayenne pepper (just a sprinkle)

1 tsp honey

Mix in cup. Garlic will float so it should be stirred as you drink it.

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I've used this for the past couple years and no one in my family has gotten a cold or the flu. If it's used the first day or two of feeling yucky, one will do it. If the cold has been around for a few days you may need to do one a day for two or three days.

I have many people testify this works, even hubbies who turned up their nose and said "what is Dee trying to do kill ME!?" LOL

I just laugh and say, trust me it works. The warm water helps everything absorb easier, the garlic is antifungal/antivirus, the cayenne is to open things up and will clear sinus', the honey is for good measure so it is tastey to drink. PLEASE DON"T CHEW THE GARLIC, just swallow it down the hatch. That's my tip.

Good health to you,

Dee

Ch ch ch changes...

I've stepped out of comfort zone and did something different. I've changed my blog to the new beta blogger. There isn't a whole lot new yet, except under my profile, my name "homemakersheart" is not showing correctly. Oh, well..I'll get that fixed somehow. I love that you can add things in the column and change colors. I've been wanting to change that for quite some time but didn't know how or where to look. I've removed the music too, started getting on my nerves..can only imagine what others feel.

***News***


As a family effort, we have all decided we are "Going Green". We want to be more environmentally conscious. Each week(or as close to that as we can) we are going to be taking small steps to help preserve the earth that God has given us to survive off of. Hubby and I agree, even if we are the only one's that do this in our neck of the woods, at least it is something. We can feel good that we are doing our part as best we can. I will be posting what it is each week we have started implementing towards Going Green. I hope you check back periodically to see what's new on our journey. Who knows, you may even consider joining in, even if it's just one thing...that one thing can go along ways if everyone did it.

I wish you God's peace.

~Dee

Pumpkin Patch

Every year, no matter where we are stationed, we have a tradition of taking the girls to a pumpkin patch and taking a fall picture. Well, today we went..and I forgot my camera! UGH! I have been assured we will go back in the next couple weeks to get my final picture. Yep, my youngest step-daughter is a Senior and plans on moving away to college next summer. So, this year was my last "tradition" of pictures at the pumpkin patch.

As I said this to Danielle while we were walking up the dirt road, I stuck out my lip to pout. She rolled her eyes and said "Mom, it's not like I'm dissapearing. I'll be home sometimes and we can go then." *Sigh*

Well here are the 3 we picked today. The tall cool one is my Honey's, and the white unique one is Danielle's, the bumpy one is mine. :-)

God's peace be with you~
Dee

Thursday's Thought

~Thursday's Thought For The Day~

"We are only caretakers of the earth."

~tea bag tag...

After reading this and mulling it over for a while, I found this to be true in a few instances. God gave us the earth and ll we need to sustain our lively hood. We are only caretakers of the earth. We don't own it and can't take it with us, but we can care for it while we are here. In turn we get the abundance of food and some of the most beautiful flowers. I've heard flowers are the earth laughing (there's another Thursday's thought.)

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Another aspect I saw in this quote was: we can care for our kids and eventually we have to let them go and grow up. They then tend to themselves and their kids. When we don't have kids at home anymore, or they are grown, we can be caretakers of the earth. The earth has always been here, and our time and effort put into tending to it (be it gardening for food, going "green", or planting more trees and flowers) will sustain it for generations. We truly are only caretakers of the earth. That is the only thing that will always be there that will need us for as long as God allows us to be here.

~Mrs. P.

Rummage Sale

This morning we went to a Women's Club rummage sale. Check out our treasure's..

The shirts, scarfs, and jewerly are Danielle's treasures, the vintage apron, gloves, lamp and pillow case are my treasures. The gloves were 25 cents each, one pair is leather, the long one's have pearl buttons. My hands are always cold so I wear gloves a lot, usually black gloves liners or knit gloves. These will be much prettier, especially in church. How fun it was to spend time together. Well, lunch time now.

I wish you God's peace.

~Dee

Spirit Day

Spirit Day is today and she is all red and black!

Ok, she dyed her hair red last night for spirit day. (Eye-balls popping out here!) Fortunately it's not permanent. 2-3 washings and it should be gone. Danielle is all into spirit day today, her make-up, she bought the shirt and hat last night and painted them, then shredded old pants to go with it all. Homecoming is tomorrow night.

I hope I get my normal conservative step-daughter back now....

~Dee

'80's Day

Yep, flash back city!!

My step-daughter chose this outfit for '80's day at school. She looks so grown up I can hardly believe she's only 17 (soon 18). I am so proud of her. The thrifty part of her came out when she put together this outfit for under $15. Ok, those of you that are able to remember the '80's, check out the shoes...oh and the blue eyeshadow! I fell over when I saw the black patent purse to finish it off. God has truely blessed me with a beautiful step-daughter who continues to amaze me everyday.

~Mrs. P

Senior Spirit Week

My youngest step daughter is a senior this year, ugh! My husband and I have raised her since she was 3 (her sister was 5), and now she's a SENIOR! I feel old!

Well this week is Spirit week and today is: Mismatch Day!

I just love her! She is a great person and step-daughter. (She said she had to work hard at trying to mis-match.)

Will keep you posted on tomorrow's event.

~Mrs. Peterson