Thankful Thursday How to be Thankful 3 ways

It seems as a homemaker there is always something to complain or gripe about. The dishes, laundry, floors, toilets, toys children who bicker. Sometimes its easy to focus on all that is wrong and lose sight of what is right.

It is often said that Your attitude will follow what you Think. So if this is true, Lets think upon all that we are thankful for. Here are 3 was you can be thankful today.


1)Name things throughout the day you are thankful for


Start by praying and thinking upon all that you are thankful for and then start naming them out loud. When you get discouraged during the day go to your bucket list and review them and bring them to your memory.








2)Give thanks in all things
 

Practice being thankful, thankfulness doesn't just come naturally its something you must practice and then eventually it will become habitual. As you clean say things like, Im thankful I get to clean these dishes it means we have had enough to eat today, or Im thankful my kids have clothes and I get to fold them and serve my
                                                        family. You get the idea.



3)Get rid of negativity

Anything you are watching on T.V, listening to, any people you talk to remove the negativity out of your life, this will only suck thanksgiving from your veins, causing you to grumble. Surround yourself with positive and thankful people. They will build you up in your efforts to be thankful. Read bible verses about thankfulness and memorize them.

Wacky Wednesday A Simple 4 step FALL CRAFT

Autumn is one of my favorite seasons
The leaves changing colors
remind me of Gods faithfulness to never
leave us in our current situations forever

TO EVERYTHING UNDER HEAVEN THERE IS A SEASON

FOR us its FALL the leaves are bright maroon, yellow, orange and they are changing and falling so beautifully the children are laughing falling in leave piles, throwing leaves in the air with giggles, I will cherish these moment forever.

Today we are working on leave pressing. The children love to press leaves into wax paper and create a beautiful collage.

Step by Step Tutorial

Step 1) Gather all your leaves

Step 2) Arrange your leaves in between 2 pieces of wax paper you can even add shredded pieces of fall colored crayons to give it more color
















Step 3) On Low heat Iron your two pieces of collage art work together

Step 4)  You can then trim excess wax off or use as placemats or hang up for a great fall decor
 

Ebola PROTECTION Homepathy

Now with the Ebola Outbreak in the United States, people are really scared and afraid. The recent contraction of the Texas Nurse who was caring for the latest victim who recently passed away, has not only locals worried but people everywhere.

I came across this site with some amazing helpful natural homeopathy remedies for Ebola. http://joettecalabrese.com/blog/bioterrorism-epidemics-knowing-homeopathy-can-help-make-world-less-scary-place/

Knowledge of how to handle these types of more exotic illness is always worth learning and preparing for.

3 Ways to keep yourself and your loved ones safe

1)WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE
 This should be common sense especially if you have children, but we all forget and well lets face it we get busy, but washing our hands for at least 60 seconds is a must around here, lather up real good with soap and water.

2)DONT GO AROUND TOUCHING DIARRHEA OR BLOOD or other body FLUIDS
This shouldn't even have to be told to us, but since EBOLA is contracted by touching blood/feces of those infected, I will URGE you not to touch any body fluids of people that aren't in your immediate family.

3)BUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
A strong Immune system can be prepared to fight off anything, eat fermented foods, take an awesome probiotic like this one here http://goo.gl/cvu3qd


I know that these 3 tips aren't going to PREVENT ANY DISEASE BUT IT SURE CAN HELP AND WE ALL NEED AS MUCH HELP AS WE CAN GET DURING THESE PERLIOUS TIMES!!!

3 Tips to Keep your Marriage Strong this week

Monday Marriage 3 Tips this week to Keep your Marriage Strong

 

 

 

1)BE FRIENDLY

2)BE A FOLLOWER

3)BE FIESTY

 

 

Now we all may not be able to go out and buy a cow to milk here in the city but we can fix the leaky sink, change the oil, be a playmate to our man, and we can buy some ice cream and have a midnight treat with our husband. Be a good friend to your man this week be kind and follow our husbands ideas and plans.

 

 

HAPPY MARRIAGE

Have you ever felt like Cinderella....

Be warned this post is BLUNT HONEST and not SUGAR COATED as some often do with marriage and homemaking. Frankly, sometimes married life and life as a homemaker feels like the fairy tale Cinderella.



Your days are filled with scrubbing floors, walls, folding laundry and preparing meal after meal.


Your wardrobe consists of aprons and more aprons and skirts to wipe your sweat on.




Ah, yes the life of a homemaker. The life of a stay at home wife and mother, no fancy balls, no invites to  parties, just a plain life of cleaning cooking, and serving.

Some find contentment in simply being a Cinderella, others prefer a more glamorous life after the fairy godmother comes and gives her a new look and Cinderella meets her Prince Charming and she lives on happily ever after (even though we aren't told what her life was like after).


That's what fairytales are like, aren't they to make you feel like your in a different world, a different life, a life more blissful, more romantic, more satisfying then the one you have.

Some of us sit around waiting for better days waiting for Prince Charming to come and slip on the glass shoe and whisk us away from our scrubbing and toiling.


Our husbands get home and we want them to rescue us from the daily sweat, to take us to a castle far away with no work at all and handmaidens waiting upon our every need and desire.


Ah, yes we want to be clothed with garments that catch the eye and have the crowd bowing. This yes, is the fairytale life. A life that you see in movies where happily ever after's are always the ending.


We are never told The Real Life after Cinderella married her Prince and after the ball was over.


God never did call us to be a Princesses did he? Rather he called us to serve "But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve." Luke 22:26


Not as a one waiting to be whisked away from hardships and trials but as one who humbly accepts all that life has for her, one who does not fear the future but laughs at it to come, one where kindness is on her lips and she does her husband good not evil all the days of her life, one where she works willingly with her hands not as one forced like Cinderella. The woman who fears the Lord is the woman to be praised not the one where beauty is fleeting at midnight and the slipper falls off. Not the kind of beauty that is only adorned outward, but a inward beauty of a gentle and quiet woman. This woman she shall be praised. The one who humbly serves and makes hero's out of her children and a king out of her husband.

3 Ways to be a good Friend to your Husband

We wives love our husbands that's a fact, but do we like them? Do we enjoy them? Are we their friend? Are we our husbands best friend?

 3 Ways to be a good friend to your husband



1) Be a Friend that sticks close Loyalty
 
"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24

Stay close to your man, by having his back no matter what. Every man wants a comrade a person they can trust a confidant one they can talk to without being judged. Be that friend who is friendly to her man who listens and sticks close by her man and his ideas, thoughts, wises, desires.

2) Lay Your life  down
" Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends". John 15:13

To be a good friend lay your life down. Be willing to do anything for your man be willing to die to your pride, your selfishness  and your complaining unthankful spirit. Let me tell you a unthankful, complaining, selfish and prideful spirit will not make you a good companion. I know because I've been there more than once. My man didn't like it and neither will yours. Who wants to be friends with a woman like that? I know I don't!

3) Don't be make friends with Anger
" Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go;" Proverbs 22:24-27

Being a good friend means letting go of anger. Don't waste your time on being angry, rather love covers a multitude of sins. When you make friends with anger your countenance becomes that of anger. You look angry, smell angry and no one wants to be around a bitter woman. Rather let your words edify, encourage and build up your man. Always speak of good around him. Let his ears hear your words always be full of grace.

Marriage Monday 3 Ways to rot your mans bones 3 Ways to be a crown

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 12:4

Are you ashamed of your man? Well, if you are then you are rotting his bones.
Here are 3 sure ways to you can rot your husbands bones.

1)Complain

A complaining spirited woman is surely one who is like death to a man, heck she is like death to anyone who hears her. I know I've been a complaining wife before, heck some days I just cant wait for my husband to come home to pour my heart out to him,my heart of complaints. I let him have an earful, I tell him how horrible of  day I had, how the children bickered all day, how they fought, how they messed and didn't help me clean. I go on and on about how hard I have it or how so and so said this on Facebook. Then I begin to complain about how tired I am.
Ladies stop complaining to your husband you are sucking his bones dry, like vinegar to a chicken bone causing it to bend and wear thin. Your man doesn't want to hear your complaints heck hardly anyone does. Surely he wishes he was on the rooftop.

2)Be unthankful/ungrateful

A unthankful Spirit is a miserable soul. When a wife is unthankful she will wallow in self-pity and want everyone around to feel sorry for her. I've done it. We all have done it. This is where we are good at manipulating others into feeling bad for us. Goodness I've been there a thousand times. I will sit and feel so sorry for myself how I have it so hard homeschooling, cooking, cleaning, buying groceries on a shoe string budget or make a big fuss that our husband doesn't get us flowers or gifts or take us on dates. Rather than be so unthankful for the things we do have the people in our lives and the love we've been shown. Un-thankfulness robs your joy and kills your happiness.

3) Be ashamed of your Husband

An embarrassed wife is a wife who is ashamed of her husband. This can manifest itself in the way our husbands dress, look, act or the job he has. We can be ashamed that he doesn't lead us the way we want, that he doesn't pray or read the Bible to us the way we desire or maybe he doesn't dress the way we want or maybe he doesn't dress the kids the way we want. So rather than be proud of the man God gave us we are shamefaced at all he does, shaking our heads at him and scorning our finger at him.

       On the bright side we can be a crown to our husband.
                    3 ways to be a crown to your husband

1) Praise/Adoration

A wife who praises her husband and adores her man can be a crown to him. he will defiantly be proud to have her as a wife, he will want to display her for all to see. He will compliment her and be so thankful for her. When we adore our husbands this shows we are honored to be their wives. Praise them for being our husband for being the father of our children, praise them for loving us and praise them for small accomplishments like taking the garbage out, dressing the kids, or even just for staying married to us.

2)Pray for your man

A praying wife is for sure a wife who is a crown to her man. She is concerned about the wellbeing of her husband, she watches out for the affairs of him by praying for him. A wife who prays for her husband truly shows him that she trust God to work in and through him. She is saying I love you enough to pray for you daily. This is a virtuous  woman, a woman who prays.


3)Thankfulness

A thankful spirit is a crown anyone would be honored to wear. A wife who is thankful can conquer the world. She can overcome anything. Be that kind of wife who is always smiling always thankful. So when your man walks in or wakes up first thing in the morning he sees your bright eyes happy to see him smiling. A thankful heart radiates and lights up any dark room.


You see we get to chose our attitude and how we want to be. D we want to be cancer to our husbands bones or a crown that he proudly wears?