Positions Available: The School of Young Women

The School of Young Women: INSTRUCTORS WANTED IMMEDIATELY

Position: Older Woman

Number of positions available: Infinite

Tenure is permanent, full-time

Positions needed immediately; class enrollment is high

Qualified applicants will have the following qualities:

Reverent behavior

Ability to teach what is good

Personal experience with the course subjects

Applicants will be disqualified for:

Malicious gossip

Too much wine

See course description below:

The School of Young Women

Instructors:         Older Women of the Church

Timetable:          Ongoing

Location:              Various homes

Course Objectives:

·         To promote and sustain the formation of the godly wife, mother and homeworker.

·         To uphold the honour of the word of God

Course text:

·         Titus 2:3-5

·         The word of God

Subjects:

·         The love of one’s husband

·         The love of one’s children

·         The work of the home

·         Character cultivation:

o   Sensibility

o   Purity

o   Kindness

·         Christian marital submission

Specialists currently wanted in the following areas:

Whiny children, time management, sleep deprivation, curbing cabin fever, prayer

Applications many be submitted to your local church.
Alternatively, private tutoring may be offered at any time to the nearest frazzled mother.

{pretty, happy, funny, real} on February 21

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

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Thanks to everyone who made suggestions about my living room! I haven't made any big changes yet, but a few bits and pieces are coming together...

{pretty}

This may be a bit odd for a {pretty}, but I think it is!

I've wanted this exact cupboard in my house for a long time. Almost three years, actually. When we first moved here, it was in the old shed, sitting on the dirt floor, covered with cans of oil and other manly sorts of things. I kept asking Micah to bring it in for me, but I don't think he took me seriously! Finally, in the fall, he brought it in to the basement to dry out and fix up. The bottom of the thing had to be cut off because it was rotting, and we considered adding new wood in its place, but in the end, we just left it and added a shelf at the bottom for stability and usefulness.

It is naturally distressed, as you can see. And I love it. Furthermore, it has helped me realize that something has been missing in my living room - a place for pretty things! I'm not sure it will stay in this exact location, but for now, here it is, making me happy.

{happy}

I'm also {happy} with a weekend furniture find for the music room/library!

I purchased these wingbacks in excellent condition for an excellent price. Yes, they are pink, but are part of a larger vision for the living rooms that I'm working on. (And that is Micah's fabulous homemade cat scratching post in the background...)

I love how they create a nice cozy seating area under the chandelier.

Slowly but surely, I know I'm getting somewhere!



~lg

{pretty, happy, funny, real} on February 14

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

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{pretty}

Arden's teaset

Watching Daddy throw wood down the wood chute off the pantry

{happy}

I stole a few moments to myself at lunchtime and went out for a bit of a walk. (One of the blessings of having a husband who works from home!) Though not sunny, the day was mild, and I was happy to wander about the property.

{funny}

Fur in motion!

{real}

Since we got our new old kitchen stove, I haven't had a place to hang towels in the kitchen. The current ones I don't mind draping over the cupboard doors or through drawer handles, but I wanted a place to hang the dirty things to dry. This week I found the perfect spot!

Eventually, this part of the house will need to be prettied up. It's a door
(which we cut in half!) off the pantry which leads down to the furnace room.
We always leave the top half open because of the window,
and this is where the wood chute is. 

Now I can just reach over the door and leave things here to dry where they won't be seen! Micah found the towel rack in the basement. (Part of the odd assortment of things we inherited with the house.)

~

And as an aside, I'd like to say Sukie's living room looks lovely! I am in the midst of figuring out what to do, furniture-wise and paint-wise with our two adjoining living rooms, so it is inspiring to see someone else making things work. I came across this picture in one of my copies of The English Home magazine, and I think it would be a lovely look for our music room/library!

Speaking of second hand furniture finds, I have my eye on a few items on kijiji that I think could potentially work! Stay tuned...



~lg

{pretty, happy, funny, real} on February 9

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

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{pretty}

{happy}

{funny}

{real}

A link to an evening reflection on contentment and real life that I wrote a little while back.





~lg