Home is where I host tea parties are for little hands and teddy bears.
Home is where I use our “good” linens and dishes just for play.
Home is where I serve chocolate spread and crackers for lunch.
Love,
Jess
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Proverbs 31:19
19 In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers
Let me set my distaff down for a minute, so I can type a little faster. Um, wait my fingers are busy grasping a spindle.
A spindle? Didn’t Sleeping Beauty prick her finger on such a thing?
Research needed!
You can make thread from unspun fibers and some mysterious combination of spindle whorling, wrist spinning, yarn hitching and hooking.
Which means I will go to a fabric store and purchase some thread.
However, I will not be getting of the hook so easily. I am going to pull out my sewing machine that is collecting dust in the garage.
Did I mention I’ve used old hand-me-down my sewing machine twice?
It’s time to reconnect and re-learn how to use the contraption.
Love,
Jess
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Proverbs 31: 15
she provides food for her family
and portions for her servant girls
The above photo is a look into my command center for food provisions.
Here is what it all is:
1. Breakfast/lunch picture menu for the kids
2. Weekly dinner menu planned from Our Family Meals cookbook
3. Nightly requirements for dinner menu recipes so remember what meat to thaw
4. Pen cup
5. Is there any bad place for a monogram, now really?
6. Running grocery list
Next, bring on the servant girls! Okay, so maybe not within my budget.
In the mean time, I thought I’d start making my husband’s lunch for work. Here are some of the provisions for my “worker”. The entire bottom portion of the kitchen freezer is dedicated to Pete’s meals.
I labeled leftover servings of dinner meals with masking tape. You may have a better memory than I, but I strongly recommend labeling, (even if its just Sharpie on the container.)
Otherwise, you will spend way too much time wondering what the mystery meat is/was/suppose to be, and just sit on the ground in front of the freezer trying to sniff a frozen chunk of something with red sauce long enough to see the leftover Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies behind the 1/2 bag of corn niblets.
Not that I’ve experienced this. 
Love,
Jess
Proverbs 31: 15
She gets up while it is still dark;
Some folks are naturally night owls, while others arise cheerily with the dawn. My energy peeks around mid-morning. Getting up while it’s still dark does not “do it” for everyone. How about you? When is your prime time?
I need sleep. My goodness, if I was up for the day at 4:55 a.m. I’d be ready for bed by 4:55 p.m. For real, passed out by dinner. So, during this time of baby raising and 5 a.m. feedings (if not 4:30 a.m.) I’m choosing to sleep.
I may not see the sunrise. But, I do see the point of this verse.
Be ready to serve, reflect, prepare or whatever it is that is needed to get your daily priorities straight…at anytime. Let nothing come between you and your purpose.
It is my priority to sleep until daybreak, or rather, go back to sleep after I have already been up feeding babies in the dark. (Which, among other things is my purpose these days.)
Until, another time Dark, until another time.
Love,
Jess
Just A Blink journals my ups and downs in creating thrifty home decor, spending time with my family, and finding simplicity. I write about everything from my garage sale addiction to my faith in God.
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