Life is on warp speed right now!
Not really.
But kinda.
Phoebe made this skirt.
It's from the Edwardian time period (1901-1910). She found the shirt to go with it and some cute shoes (not shown). She looked so lovely at church!
And she finished an outfit she's been working on for over two years! The above picture is her hand-sewing the dress at our Texas home in 2020.
It's a Medieval Dress from the 14th-ish century.
She made the pattern herself. There is an undergarment called a chemise or shift and it's of linen.
The dress is of yellow linen (it would normally be wool for that time period, but wool was expensive for this project).
And the linen apron with smocking decoration is more from the 15th century.
She doesn't like to tell us what she's making while she's in the midst of the process because she's afraid she won't finish it. So while we could kind of tell it was dress-like from peeking in her room, we were never positively sure until last night. The sleeves gave her fits which made her stop the project for a while. But she completed it, and it's gorgeous!
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The CopyWorkBook for Kids has come out this week. I collected writings of Charlotte Mason that are relevant for kids into this CopyWorkBook. I've always loved buying copybooks for my kids because someone has pulled all the work together for me, and I can hand it to them and have them practice handwriting, spelling, punctuation and a host of good things.
This copybook for kids is a great companion piece to the one pulled together
for Moms. Moms can practice beautiful penmanship too!
Phillip is now an elder at our church, so we are inviting the families over that are in our Shepherding group. Kimber and Wes have birthdays very near one another, so we sang Happy Birthday to them over those cute cupcakes they made.
We're planning to have soups for each Shepherding meal. It's cold outside and soup seems like a simple way to go. Last week was
White Chicken Chili and tomorrow we plan for
Ham and Potato (which we also call Refugee Soup because someone called it that a while back and it stuck). If you have any good soup recipes you want to suggest, please tell me!
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Papa had knee surgery about a month ago, so he asked Jonathan to do the Communion Meditation for him. It turned out to be Revival Sunday, and Jonathan did an excellent job. We are very proud of him!
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It was Phillip's Uncle Earl who preached the Revival this year, so we got to hear a great Bible series from Daniel. Just good truths about staying faithful and being strong and courageous.
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The hard working kitchen crew!
Our Sunday School was partly in charge of food and clean-up on the last night.
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Mike, our youth minister, with Phoebe and Harrison.
I'm so glad Christy gets pictures because I took nary a one.
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Da Boys being cool and casual.
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Da Boys being Boys.
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The teens helped serve and clean-up the revival meal on Monday night.
We also had a children's revival going on, so the kids had something to go to. And we had great music from a music minister who grew up in this church.
Uncle Earl is the oldest living Timothy from First Christian Church Vandalia. And Tyler, the music leader, is currently the youngest Timothy from this church. (A Timothy is someone raised in a local congregation who went on to serve God via ministry.)
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Mimi and Papa are a little in the picture on the left there. Phillip sitting across from them.
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Hi, Harrison.
Praise the Lord! We have new sidewalks!
Just in time for cold weather to hit. I'm so excited that we'll be able to step out onto gravel and right onto a firm sidewalk and be able to stay out of the mud this winter.
Our van went kaput, and Phillip found this awesome car for me on Carvana. This was our first Carvana experience and it went mostly smoothly!
I Love the car.
Our first term of school is over (we're 1/3 done!). Lanaya and Amos get married in two weeks.
Thank God for good things in life.
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