" LOVE, LIFE, AND JOY IN THE HOME "....

" LOVE IN THE HOME"

If I lived in a house of spotless beauty
with everything in it's place~
but not have love, I am a
housekeeper...not a homemaker.

If I have time for waxing, polishing
and decorative achievements
but have not love, my children
learn cleanliness...not Godliness.

Love leaves the dust, in search
of a child's laugh.
Love smiles at tiny fingerprints on
the newly cleaned window pane.

Love wipes away the tears before
it wipes up the spilled milk.
Love picks up the child before it
picks up the toys.

Love is present through the trials.
Love reproves, teaches and
is responsive.

Love crawls with the baby,
walks with the toddler,
runs with the child,
then stands aside to let the
youth walk into adulthood.

Love is the key that opens
salvation's message to a childs heart.

Before I became a mother I took glory
in my house of perfection.
Now I glory in God's perfection
of my child he lent to me.

As a mother, there is much I must
teach my child, but the greatest of
all...is LOVE.
(unknown and added to by me)

(I have the above picture in my home...it's my favorite)



NOW...LETS HAVE SOME FUN...

" KOOL-AID PLAY DOUGH"


Mix together:

2 cups flour
1 cup (non-iodine) Salt
4 tsps. Cream of Tarter

Add and stir til dissolved:

2 T. Veggie Oil
2 Cups of Boiling Water
2 Small unsweetened Kool-Aid pkts.
(red and green works best)

Combine dry ingds. with wet...
knead til cool....PLAY!
(store in covered containers, stays soft)

" HOMEMADE STRETCHY GOOEY GAK"

Pour into a plastic container
and stir...

1 cup of Elmers Glue
Food coloring, your choice
(optional, it can stain)

Add 1 cup liquid starch
a little at a time, stirring with a
spoon or kneading as it thickens.

Keep going til it holds together
like putty. If too sticky, add more starch
in small amounts until mass is
smooth and rubbery!

Now...go have a gooey Gakky fun time!
~~~~~~~~~~

" TAFFY "

Three cups of Sugar
Half a cup of Vinegar
Half a cup of Water
Juice of one Lemon

Boil without stirring til
is brittle (place a drop into cold water)
Pour onto a buttered dish to cool.

When cool enough to hold in buttered hands,
Pull til white and light, then cut into small
pieces with scissors and place in a covered
jar. It's important to keep this candy dry.

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" TAFFY PULL "

I can still smell the vinegar
cooking with sugar and water,
boiling to a "hard ball"
oiling platters.
pouring all the thick liquid
onto them, and cooling
it in the snow!

Oh, we could hardly wait
to rub our fingers with butter
how the memory lingers!
Then take the warm sweet
confection and pull and laugh
and sing a song, and pull some more
til the creamy candy stretched
a yard long!

Then we'd snip it into bite-size
chunks that melted
on the tongue-
Such Fun!
~~~


"HAPPY MOTHERS DAY" ....this Sunday!

To each of you my sweet friends...I say;
Go have fun with your children
and those sweet grand children...
that's what it's all about isn't it?

Motherhood is the dearest thing to my heart,
it is so vitally important to us... and to them.

"THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK YOU WILL EVER DO
WILL BE WITHIN THE WALLS OF YOUR OWN HOME."
(Harold B. Lee)

GOD BLESS MOTHERS...EVERYONE!

(I'll be gone for a couple of days and will catch up
commenting on your blogs when I get back....Shelia, you're
in charge of these ladies, make sure they behave! LOL)