Family Happiness According to A Younger

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This makes a family happy, and have a clean conscience in prayer and family life. We shouldn’t have a house filled with noise and yelling, bickering, and bad words, for that is an unsettled lifestyle and also makes satan pleased which is not a good idea. Peace, smiles, hugs, and prayer are what a family needs to live for God. Petitions before family prayer is a great time to share our thoughts and worries. God listens to children’s prayers with gratefulness. If the family is practicing their faith, this gives everyone a happy state of mind.

He Prayeth Well Who Loveth Well
Samuel Taylor Colridge

He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird, and beast.

He prayed best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

1. Happy are those who pray to the Lord everyday and receive holy communion when they can!
Nothing pleases the family more than an enriched relationship with each other and our Savior.
2.It will prevent evil things like some magazines, movies, video games and TV shows from wandering in.
3.It will help your children choose a better life if they remember the memories of prayer.
4. It helps to become better Catholics.
5. If your children decide to enter the religious life, or as Catholic parents, its you who helped them choose the right path.
6. Your children will thank you.
7. In Heaven, God will have abundant mercy on you.
8. You are opening doors for your children and for each other.
9. You are probably going to go to heaven if your life is centered on the Catholic Faith.

P.S. This is only an essay written by me, and so you don't have to pay too much attention too it. But really, we can all do better as a family in our prayer life. One detour in this post, not all magazines, movies are bad, not at all! We read Highlights! But if you have been to a grocery store and having to leave an aisle of seeing mom hastily turning over covers, you know what I mean. They can really hurt you.

Pinecones & Pegs

All right, after racking my mind for pinecone crafts, I have come up with a few which might help clear under your pine tree.

PINECONE
1. Little pinecone owls. Felt beaks and perhaps goggly eyes and paper wings. Perhaps glue these on a little branch and display using a vase full of flowers with your owls huddled in the middle of a wondrous bouquet.
2. Pinecone wreath. Glue pinecones together to form a circle. Cut out magazine pieces and roll them up to form tiny telescopic shapes.
3. Pinecone frames. Glue an assortment of pinecones(don't use giant sequoia cones)around a wooden frame. If you want it to look nature-y press some flowers and glue these on also.

PEGS
Peg-dolls. I just heard about these from my cousins and they do look really cute! Online there are hand painted ones but they are so expensive and not exactly memorable. I think the easiest way to get pegs is to buy a cheap(or make)wooden coat rack and take off the pegs and paint away. But probably some craft store will have little pegs which can use.

I really wish I had pictures of my creations. Till next time. I didn't get the picture post I had dreamed up but perhaps you can share your ideas!

June Diaries

I shall begin to write once more a newsy epistle. I shall start with the highlight of the day which is the welcoming of six new bunnies, born to Terra(Rylander)and father Blackie(Dutch mini lop.) They are very cute! Sadly our camera is out of batteries and so adieu to an excellent pictured post till next entry.

WE went camping last week in Le Pine OR at a wonderful place called Bull Bend. When we awoke after a freezing night, we saw ice floating down the nearby river. (A friend of ours said someone probably emptied their cooler!) So now I can say I have been up to my knees in icy water.

Also this year we went to the Turner Lamb Festival, which was great! We got to see elderly woman using spindles, a lamb show, a bottle-feeding contest, and a parade.

My writing is taking off and I am writing a mystery called Enfant Jesus and just finished a play, The Story of Jane Addams for our cousin thespian society. I was thinking of starting a historical novel about a deformed spartan boy but I still have to study my history.
I recovered some old stories long ago including a rather childish 'Peter the Pig' and 'Mary the Monkey' which were written when I was seven years old. If you really want to read some of the chapters, I will post them for you. I am not really ashamed, I think I have drastically improved.

Farm wise: We have been picking thistles, burs, and got our Chinese golden pheasant, Joseph settled in an old and abandoned rabbit hutch while we wait for an aviary to be built in the barn. Two new rabbits, Brendan and Brigit 'lightened' our doors, and our quail are laying little eggs, speckled, and some are green! Plums and apples are green knobs on the tree waving in the breeze, and the cow, Moon is to have a calf in July.

My mystery has taken up most of my craft time, and I am also in two plays for our church, and sing in a children's choir but stay tuned for my creativity usually sparks in odd moments like camping. In have to figure out what to do with driftwood & pinecones...