~Scatter The Seeds~

I think we could all stand to be reminded of these points, whether your a seasoned wife or a newlywed.

A Wise Woman Builds Her House

A wise woman doesn’t take anything for granted. She is thankful to be loved and seeks to make herself more lovely.

A wise woman doesn’t allow herself to be a liability but strives to be an asset to the marriage bond. She looks for ways to make, save, and use money wisely. Her husband knows he is a richer man because she is his wife.

A wise woman seeks to be a part of her husband’s life. His interest becomes her interest. She looks for ways to help him in every endeavor in which he is involved. When he needs a helping hand, it is her hand that is there first.

A wise woman knows that his peace of mind (and sometimes, wise understanding) is something she can give or take away by her observations and conversation concerning circumstances or people. She limits her conversation to the positive.

A wise woman sets a joyful mood in the household. She uses laughter, music and happy times to stir the children to a positive, joyful frame of mind. She knows this light-heartedness helps take stress off her husband.

A wise woman gauges her husband’s needs. She seeks to fulfill his desires before even he is aware of them. She never leaves him daydreaming outside the home. She supplies his every desire.

A wise woman understands that her husband’s need to be honored is not based on his performance but on his position. She learns quickly to defer with enthusiasm to his ideas or plans. She looks for ways to reverence him. She knows this is God’s will for her life.

A wise woman is not pitiful, puny, or whinny. She seeks to be confident, capable and thankful.

A wise woman does not dream of what “could have been.” She sees clearly that she is not God’s gift to men; thus she is blessed in her present circumstances. She learns to be content.

A wise woman never expects anyone to serve her; therefore she is never disappointed. She is ready to help—a giver. By her example her children learn to serve cheerfully and energetically.

A wise woman doesn’t attempt to instruct her husband through feigned questions. Her questions are sincere inquiries concerning his will.

A wise woman is always learning. She is open to change. She is ready to hear. She wants to know. She doesn’t cloud her mind with the foolish folly of entertainment. She uses her time wisely.

I've been trying to downsize my library, below is a list of the books I have for sale. HB= Hardback, SB=Softback, If your interested email me Christinamc@bellsouth.net for more information. I prefer paypal but will take money orders, cash and checks.

Health 1.50each

High Speed Healing Rodale Books HB
The New Complete Medical & Health Encyclopedia Volumes 1-4 1987 HB
Household Hints & Handy Tips Readers Digest HB
Guide to Medical Cures & Treatments Readers Digest HB
Home Remedies & What Works Gale Maleskey & Brian Kaufman HB
Rodales Encyclopdeia of Natural Home Remedies Rodale HB
Natural Healing Cookbook Bricklin & Classens HB
Rodales Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs HB

Cookbooks Priced As Marked

Encyclopdia of Fruits, Nuts, & Seeds For Healthy Living Parker (1973) HB .50
Once a Month Cooking Mimi Wilson & Mary Beth Lagerburg 1986 HB .50
Natural Healing Cookbook Bricklin & Classens HB 2.00
Emeril Lagasse Everyday is a Party Cookbook HB    4.00
Christmas with Southern Living 1995 HB    3.00
The Ultimate Smoothie Book 101 Delicious Recipes Cherie Calbom SB 4.00
Illustrated Childrens Cookbook Good Housekeeping HB 5.00
Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2001 HB    3.00
Taste of Home Annual Recipes HB 2000,2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 Editions 4.00each

Gardening Priced As Marked

Rodales Illustrated Encyclopdeia of Herbs HB 4.00
Growing & Propogating Wild Flowers (lots of herbal info) Harry R. Phillips SB 2.00
Let it Rot A home gardeners guide to compost Campbell SB 1.00
Dead Snails Leave No Trails Loren NaCarrow & Janet Taylor SB 2.00
Carrots Love Tomatoes - Secrets of Companion Planting Louise Riotte SB 2.00
Southern Living Low Maintenance Gardening SB 2.00

Quilting Priced As Marked

Beautiful Foundation Pieced Quiltblocks Sterling/Chapelle HB 5.00
Easy Paper Pieced Baby Quilt Carol Doak SB 4.00
Debbie Mumms Country Quilts For All Occasions HB 4.00
Wonderful Baby QUilts To Make Richards SB 5.00
Through The Garden Gate Jean & Valori Wells SB 6.00
Bless The Beast & The Children Brandywine Designs Linda Hohag SB 4.00
Irish Chain In A Day Single & Double Eleanor Burns SB 5.00
Star Log Cabin Quilting In A Day Eleanor Burns SB 5.00
A Fine Line Curst Tewell SB 4.00
The Simple Joys of Quilting 30 Timeless QUilt Projects Hanson & Hickey HB 3.00
-- PATTERNS - If you interested email me and I'll zap you over a picture and what is available.

Martha Stewart 4.00 each

Christmas with Martha Volume 5 HB & Gorgeous
Christmas with marth Volume 6 HB & Gorgeous

Crafts 5.50 each

More Creative Window Treatments Step by Step Over 300 Photos SB
Great Candles Hyder SB & lots of pictures and step by step SB
Magic Lanterns Indoor & Outdoor Lanterns Maguire SB
The Kids Building Workshop 15 Woodworking Projects Robertson SB
Easy Carpentry Projects For Children Dover, Leavit SB

Bible & Some Homeschool Priced As Marked

The Student Bible Dictionary Dockery/Godwin/Godwin SB 1.50
Helper By Design Elyse Fitzpatrick SB 3.00
The Heart Of Anger Lou Priolo SB 4.00
Becoming A Titus 2 Woman Martha Peace SB 3.00
Christianity Through The Centuries Cairns HB 4.00
Courtship; Engagement; Marriage From John Calvins Geneva SB (from Vision Forum) 5.00
Preparing Sons For A Single Family Income Steven Maxwell SB 3.00
Safely Home Eldridge (vision Forum) SB 1.75
How To Study The Bible For Yourself LaHaye SB 3.00
Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan SB 1.00
Family Walk 52 Weekly Devotions For Your Family Bruce Wilkinson SB 2.00
3 Audio CDs Sinful Nature Michael Pearl 4.00
TAPES - 3 Book Collection - To Train Up A Child; No Greater Joy Volume 1 & 2 4.00
Tapes Galatians Series Michael Pearl 2.00
Audio CDS Uniting Church & Family 1st National Conference Doug Philips & Many Speakers 4.00

Homeschooling Priced As Marked

Apologia Physical Science CD 1st Edition (Whole curriculum for computer instead of Book) 30.00
Journey To The Center Of The Earth Treasury of Illustrated Classics HB 1.00
Cheaper By The Dozen Frank Gilreath Jr. SB 1.00
Handbook For Grammar & Compositon Chapman Abeka .25
What In The World Is Going On Here? TAPES Volume 1 Diana Waring 1.00
Critical Thinking Book 1 Includes Answer Guide Problem Solving-Logic-Reasoning-Arguments 5.00
Writing Strands Evaluating Writing 4.00
Writing Strands Level 3 4.00
LLATL (Learning Language Arts Through Literature) Tan, Yellow & Red Book 4.00each
A Case of Red Herrings A1 4.00
Preparing Sons For A Single Family Income Steven Maxwell 3.00
Homeschooling Guide To Portfolio & Transcripts Loretta Heuer M.Ed 2.00
Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan 1.00
My Side Of The Mountain Jean Craighead George SB 1.00
Developing Writing Fluency Hundreds of Motivatonal Prompts 4.00
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane SB 2.00
Diceys Song Cynthia Voigt 1.00
Umcommon Courtesy For Kids by Gregg & Joshua Harris 2.00
English From The Roots Up Volume 1 5.00
If Your Trying To teach Kids To Write You've Gotta Have This Book Marjorie Frank 5.00
TAPES - 3 Book Collection - To Train Up A Child; No Greater Joy Volume 1 & 2 4.00
DVD School House Rock 30th Anniversary Edition 8.00
DVD The League of Grateful Sons 10.00
British Literature Student Edition James Stobaugh 8.00

Sometimes posting one catch up post is simpler and I'm all about the ease of things right now. So where have I been?

Spending just about everyday lakeside. Swimming, playing with the kids, doing cannonballs off the dock, seeing who can hold their breath and swim the furthest underwater, eating watermelon, spitting seeds, talking to the neighbors, catching fish, learning to fly fish, catching baby turtles, watching tadpoles, reading, and soaking in that vitamin D the Lord provides via the sun.

Studying non stop. I've been diligently picking away at my herbal studies, I'm on lesson 6 The Digestive System and am trying to get a few lessons under my belt before we start school back in August. I'm working on doing a proving now, I have to taste and write about my experience with 25 herbs. Which I'm enjoying. I'm using Christopher Hobbs Foundations of Herbalism Course.

Kitchen Creations I have jars of oils and tinctures lining my counter tops. I've been experimenting with salves, lotions, balms and tinctures and am going to try creating instant herbal teas very soon.

Scuba Dive Training before you get any ideas I'm not this brave. BUT my husband is. In fact, more so, because it's rescue diving. Can you imagine diving in mirky dark water? yuck. Scares me just thinking about it. Not my brave superman hubby. He wants to do rescue/recovery dives with the fire dept. and is preparing for the pre-test. He has to swim 400 yards non stop, swim 50 feet underwater, (in case while rescue diving you come up in an oil slick you can swim under it and get out.) and tread for 15 minutes. WHEW! The extra pounds we packed on this winter are slipping right off.

Creating an Herbal Business has been taking up my time too. I've been building a website to sell my salves, lotions and teas. A friend and I made soap and we would like to sell that too, just as soon as we perfect the recipe. The business is called Old Country Herbs but the site isn't up and running yet so I won't link it.

Japanese Beetles are back with a vengeance. Just today we picked 3 cup fulls. Anyone have any suggestions? Any at all?? Help.

Homebirth my sweet, gentle, kind friend made labor look so easy. I couldn't be more proud of how she handled herself, the excruciating pain, the fast delivery, you want more details don't you ladies??? Ok here it is and if I can get her to say it's ok maybe a picture of the cutest little ______ you've ever laid eyes on very soon. leave her a comment maybe that will sway her!! Tell her to start a blog too.

Oh, the point.

So at 3am her husband called and said, "You need to get over here." I was up and dressing as fast as I could go, with one eye open of course, it was 3am. Anyway, I sped over, and there she was holding fast to her husbands hand breathing and coming out of a contraction. They were coming faster at this point, I believe 3 minutes apart, midwife was on her way, and there she was breathing, handling it all in stride, amazing, simply amazing. After 1 1/2 hours of labor at 4:12am she pushed maybe twice and the most precious baby boy you ever laid your eyes on twisted and turned it's way out. Momma and Daddy were THRILLED! They have truly been blessed.

Picture soon...maybe...no pressure....none...sure would make reading more thrilling...everyone likes looking at babies....no pressure though....none.

Birthdays too, I can't forget those, we have 2 this month. Want to hear something neat? My hubby and my middle sons birthdays are in June, My birthday, my daughter and my other son are in October! Our whole family has birthdays in just 2 months during the year. No, it wasn't planned.

Books For Sale I've been cleaning out my library shelves, trying to simplify. I have lots of books to sell like quilting, cooking, crafts, herbal remedies, homeschooling, Bible, the list goes on and on. I will post them here in the next couple of days. Be sure to check back I need to move these.

Japanese Beetles, if you've dealt with these you know just how irritating these little devils can be. We put Milky Spore down in our yard to help combat these irritating beetles at the egg/grub/larvae stage. But what do you do about the adults who fly around, eating your roses, petunias, and now my comfrey!

The kids and I have collected literally cup-fulls of these pesky bugs everyday for the last 2 weeks. There is no help. NONE.

I refuse to put poisons like Sevin dust or other sprays on my plants. So the only method left is a cup full of water with a good squirts or two of dish soap, go outside and pick them off. The soap breaks the surface tension of the water allowing the beetles to swim madly in all directions coming to a quick death by drowning. Very Satisfying to witness.

Search online, search every way you can think, let google make suggestions for you, you will find no sure fire way to kill these pesky little devils.

For those that are curious, they don't bite, sting or hurt in anyway. We've gotten where we can catch them hovering about. They buzz at you fly around but are all bark and no bite.

Share your tips, how have you rid your yard from Japanese Beetles? Any suggestions??? Anyone??