Home Despot Elly

I don’t think I spend more time looking at (or through) anything as much as I do through my kitchen window. It’s where I wash my hands, peel carrots, do dishes, etc. I spend (it seems like) enormous amounts of time in the kitchen and probably look through the window hundreds of times a day. Nothing [...]

Mystie suggested that I blog about the way I ended up at U of I. That sounds like a good idea to me, since that’s a story I generally enjoy telling! It goes like this.\par
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Long ago Matt’s mom went to U of I. Or she just liked the school but didn’t go there, I’m not entirely [...]

A couple of years ago at Family Camp Chris Schlect spoke on the Blessedness of Routine. At the time he suggested finding the fun and joy in routine and seeing it as a blessing from God. One example: looking at the laundry and seeing how it looked like an elephant. OK. That was pretty corny, and [...]

My Mom had a cut out newspaper article posted on her fridge. It was a very sad, interesting, instructive and would have been funny (in a macabre, sad sort of way) if it wasn’t true. Emeth suggested blogging it, so I just googled it. The link is here http://www.wmtw.com/news/5950773/detail.html\par
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Brief Synopsis: A woman smothers under her clutter [...]

Now I have Leap Frog “Talking Words Factory” going on in the background – and since that’s a little more intellectual than “Winnie the Pooh” I feel like perhaps I can explain why I chose Home Despot as the title for my blog.\par
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As a young girl I was significantly bothered by the doctrine of biblical headship [...]

\’c3\’82\’c2\~I have a few dilemmas regarding this blog.\’c3\’82\’c2\~\par
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I do not know, really, how one goes about starting a blog. Is it appropriate to email your friends (the ones whose blogs you read) and tell them that you have your own blog now? Isn’t that rather like tooting one’s own horn? On the other hand, won’t my [...]