Save on Shaving Cream
Posted on Nov. 20, 2008 at 12:51 AM by HSB Front Porch - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Don’t you love the ease of shaving with your favorite shaving cream or lotion? Well, you can get that simple time saver for less!
When your shaving cream or lotion runs out, don’t replace it. Instead use olive oil! Olive oil is a bit thicker than other oils, but also provides essential moisture to your skin. Rub it on your leg and shave as usual. If this seems like the end of this frugal practice, hold on, because you will also save on your moisturizing lotion. When you use olive oil in place of shaving cream, you won’t need to moisturize your skin afterwards. DOUBLE SAVINGS!
This tip works with men as well, and since olive oil doesn’t have an odor, no purchasing of separate products. Now that is a simply frugal savings!
These are my thoughts.
Leslie Valeska
~Contributing Writer~
 Leslie Valeska is the lucky wife of Thomas. With children ranging in ages from 4-16, she has had a lot of time to learn and experience much of the fine art of homemaking. She is a writer, speaker, and vintage seamstress. For FREE daily tips and a FREE E-zine on simple and frugal living visit her blog Journey to Simplicity. Need a source of encouragement, inspiration, and support on your journey to Godly womanhood? Visit Simple Journey Ministries (she has a FREE E-zine too!) Of course, don’t forget to visit the Simple Journey Bookstore!
Me Thinks I Been Hacked
My sincerest apologies to all of you who have emailed about the November issue of Her Simple Walk E-Zine and this week’s Journey to Simlicity E-zine. I had been working on them in segments as I am able. However, when I went in this evening to finish them up and send them to all of you, I found that they are missing. I am not certain what is going on yet, but I submitted a help “ticket” and am hoping to discover the source of this. However, if there is no method of recovering the information, I will have to start them both from scratch.
I am packing and preparing for our family to work a tournament and we leave Friday. Right now, I should be in bed, but I have been trying to resolve this tonight if possible. However, I now must wait to hear back from the help department. This means I will be unable to get to these until next week some time. My sincerest apologies for the inconvenience to all of you! Know that I will do all that I can to get these re-written and in your Iinboxes ASAP.
In addition, the Simple Journey Bookstore is in disrepair again. I am working as best I can to repair the links and formatting to making your shopping with us a pleasant and user friendly experience. Thanks for your patience and understanding through our trials!
These are my thoughts.
We found a house
We found a house we like. It is a 7 bedrooms, 4 baths 4200 square feet and on almost 3/4 acre, only for 350 thousand!! , we are in California remember. We were emailed it and just loved the pictures and how it sounded. We went to see it and it is two house not one house! Ugh!!! Why do they not tell you that when you are looking at a few to see? They know what you want, so why do they waste my time??
We are going to look at another one, but this one is smaller only 3 bedrooms, 2 bath and 2300 square feet , but it has the land we want.
We are just looking at this time as we still have our ranch and love it there. We will see where and if God wants us to move, but we keep looking.
God Bless, mj
tired;)
At any rate, I'm dead. I got up and started the food and worked out and got us and everything I needed out the door. Our MOMS group made checkbook covers and a bunch of bday and anniversary cards since we were almost out. I made them legal size so envies will be cheap. We had 2 cricuts going so it went quickly. From there, I went to the pie place and scored big w/pies. Mat's youth is hosting a Thanksgiving meal on Tday so he can't help, but I offered to get 10 pies. Thankfully, they had sugar cream, pumpkin chess and german chocolate 2nds and I got 7 for $12.50. I'll get the others elsewhere. Then to the grocery for our Tday foods and then to Walmart for waht was left. Then to pizza hut for lunch (We got 2 personal pans, salad, and breadsticks for $3.20!) and finally to library. We got home about 3:40 and unloaded and I dusted and cleaned the bathrooms. Then we read a chapter in the Plymouth book. Supper is easy and I need to get it int he oven.
TOmorrow is cleaning floors, probalby seeing if I can clean the kitchen chair upholestry and making cheeseballs.;)
Fires in California
Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:00 by m j - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I do not know if you see on your news things about California , but we are having major fires. We have 6 going and 3 of them are close around us. We live in Chino. Chino Hills was Chino to, until they changed it to Chino Hills ( it was always just called the hills) because they did not to live in a city that has a prison. Carbon canyon is also part of Chino Hills (Chino). We live a few miles form Diamond Bar and Corona. We have fires all around us. We are praying for the people who lost their homes and for all the people helping out. So many people lost it all.
People were evacuated 3 miles from us. It has been very smokey and it looks like it snowed due to the ash. It is fall but we have been in the 90's. Hubby had such a hard time getting home from work on Friday. The 3 freeways were closed as was Carbon Canyon. It took him over 2.5 hours to drive the 17 miles home!!
God Bless, mj
Pictures of Marty's life
I am posting more pictures of Marty.
Marty as a pup:
As a young man:
 At Disneyland :
   Different Christmas pictures taken at Disneyland:
Him with one of his puppies:
As you all can see we love this guy a lot!! Marty was a part of all our lives everyday. I am still developing rolls of film. As I find pictures of him I will post them.
We miss him so very much.
P.s here is one of the poor guy dressed as Snow White:
 He just love to be with us and his sisters, even if they painted his nails and dressed him up as a girl.
God Bless, mj
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Abe Lincoln, Thanksgiving and Divine Intervention
Posted on 2008-Nov-18 at 05:16 by Kim Wolf<>< - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Here's something I found and thought it would be a great lesson for our children with Thanksgiving coming... {KW<><}...
In the White House, Abe Lincoln was pacing the floor of his office. He felt more troubeld than he had ever felt before. The fate of the Union was at stake. He felt as if he were almost alone in his concern for the outcome. Friends and aides appeared to be almost panic-stricken. Abe felt that this was the most critical hour of the [Civil] war, perhaps the most critical hour in the entire history of the United States.
In desperation he left his office, went into this room and locked the door. There he fell before a chair. With his head in his hands, he wept and prayed.
Now, more than at any other time in his life he turned to God. In deep anguish he told God that he had done all he could. He pleaded for help. There was nothing more that he could do. He must leave the result of the battle in the hands of God. He now knew that if his country was to be saved, it would be only because God willed it.
It was a heartbreaking hour of prayer.
When he unlocked the door and came out of his room he felt that a great burden had suddenly been rolled off his shoulders. His intense anxiety and torturing concern had been relieved. He felt a quiet and calm trustfullness...
On his desk was a copy of the Thanksgiving Proclamation. He had proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a day of national Thanksgiving. The nation had never before had such an annual Thanksgiving Day and he had decided that it was time the nation remembered in a special day what God had done.
Now he read slowly the proclamation:
We have been the recipients of the choistest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Tears slipped down his cheeks as he read these words, for he believed in them deeply. It was because of this belief that he ordered the Treasury Department to engrave the words, In God We Trust, on American coins.
As he was sitting at his desk, thinking about these things, an aide rushed in and excitedly exclaimed, "There's good news from the battle at Gettysburg, Sir..."
But in spite of this great victory, his days were filled, dealing with generals, listening to the problems of many citizens, and handling endless administrative details. For help he turned to God through the Bible and in prayer.
Almost daily now, he felt the need to go to his room to pray. More and more, he became conscious of the work of God in the affairs of men.
Writing to a friend, Byron Sutherland, one day, he said,
I believe we are all agents and instruments of Divine Providence. I hold myself in my present position and with the authority invested in me, as an instrument of Providence. I am conscious every moment that all I am and all that I have are subject to the control of a higher power, and that power can use me or not use me in any manner and at any time as in His wisdom might be pleasing to Him.
One day, Mr. Chittenden, the register of the Treasury, asked him if he believed that God actually directed national affairs. With a deep feeling of emotion, he replied,
The the Almighty does make use of human agencies, and directly intervenes in human affairs, is one of the plainest statements of the Bible...I have many evidences of His direction, many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannont doubt that this power comes from above.
~~~Reprinted from Honest Abe by Harry J. Albus.
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A non-green thumb who loves plants, and wants to know "why" about everything, likes to eat what is fresh, and is so amazed at the world God has made, and sometimes not so impressed by the things man can make, who wants to learn how to be a good care-taker of all that God has blessed us with, and be thankful and generous with it. Oh yeah, and I homeschool :)