Homemaking Headaches? Try these new Franklin Springs Dvd's!

So many of us didn't get homemaking training while we were growing up, and that can be so frustrating!
Here's a great solution!

Three New Homestead Blessings DVDs
The Art of Gardening, Canning, and Herbs
Pre-order today and save $10 off the retail price

There are three new reasons to get excited about our highly acclaimed Homestead Blessing series. The West ladies are back - Jasmine, CeCe, Vicki, and Hannah - with three exciting new instructional and inspirational DVDs.


Three New Homestead Blessings DVDs

The Art of Gardening, Canning, and Herbs

Pre-order today and save $10 off the retail price
There are three new reasons to get exciting about our highly acclaimed Homestead Blessing series.

The West ladies are back - Jasmine, CeCe, Vicki, and Hannah - with three exciting new instructional and inspirational DVDs.
The Art of Gardening, The Art of Canning, and the Art of Herbs are fun-filled programs that include homemaking skills presented in an educational and entertaining three DVD set. The southern charm and hospitality of the West ladies will welcome you into this beautifully-photographed High Definition broadcast-quality series that audiences around the world have come to love so much.
"I absolutely love these ladies! They are so real -- I even texted acouple of my friends. Please show me more!"
These three fun and useful DVDs will help to complement numerous homemaking endeavors and for a limited time the set is available at a special pre-order discounted price of just $39.95 - a savings of $10 off the retail price for all pre-orders!

Canning
~ Equipment ~~ Cleaning ~~ Sealing ~~ Storage ~~ Water bath method ~~ Pressure method ~~ Tomatoes ~~ Green Beans ~~ Jams ~~ Eggs ~and much more~

Gardening
~ Composting ~~ Pest control ~-Container Gardening ~~ Vegetables ~~ Potato Patches ~~ Herbs ~~Climate Conditions ~~ Flowers ~
and much more!

Herbs
~ Identifying herbs ~~ Easy herbs to grow ~~ Storing Herbs ~~ Herb butters ~~ Teas ~~ Vinegars ~~ Health Tonics ~

Order All Six Homestead Blessings DVDs for just $75

For a limited time we are also making available the entire Homestead Blessings collection at a discounted price of just $75 - $25 off the retail price! This set includes the three original Homestead Blessings films as well as the three new releases. Includes The Art of Bread Making, Candle Making, Soap Making, Canning, Gardening and Herbs.

These would be great for Moms, daughters, and homeschoolers!

Please use the Franklin Springs button in my right hand sidebar to order!

Family Camp 2009

We just came back from Servant's Heart Camp Ministries Family Camp 2 , and we did so much I just can't jam it all in a post, so, I'm doing a photo-journal of it. Enjoy!

Concert at the Park

Last week we had the opportunity to go and listen to the Diamond State Concert Band at the park. It was a lovely evening!
It was great to relax and listen to the music while sitting along the Delaware River.

Chippy enjoyed it too! He even brought his chewy along!
Other listeners brought their canine companions too.
Lots of little tots came as well...

The kids rode their scooters during intermission along the trail.

They played some marches, and also did a set of Patriotic songs as it was almost July 4th.

They also played all of the songs from the different branches of the armed forces, and the veterans stood while their branch was being played, and the crowd applauded them. :)

Below is a video of the band playing God Bless America if you want to listen.

Psalm 36:5
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

Hey Dude, Surf's UP!

Chippy loves to relax on the float in the pool. He will even fall asleep! LOL

He's such a big part of our family!

The above statement is true...but for how much longer?

There are those in this country that tell the world that we, the U S of A, are not a Christian nation. But just because someone says something, doesn't make it so.

We are indeed a Christian nation, and no matter how loud he shouts, he cannot change it!

He cannot change us!

They can change the history books, but they cannot change the truth.

And so, today, I am reminded that we should cherish our freedom.

It seems to slowly be slipping away...

Let's be united in standing firm in our faith.

In protecting our freedom, and the freedom of our children to worship the One True God, in this Christian Nation!

John Adams and John Hancock: We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]

John Adams:“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

Benjamin Franklin: “ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel”

–Constitutional Convention of 1787 original manuscript of this speech

Samuel Adams: “ He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.”

[ "American Independence," August 1, 1776. Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia]

John Quincy Adams:• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

And, was this prophecy?

Samuel Johnston:• “It is apprehended that ... Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.

[Elliot’s Debates, Vol. IV, pp 198-199, Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30, 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention]

Wake up America, if there is still time!

Hop on over to my friend Marci's store--she's have a $25.oo giveaway! Woohooo! She's got some great items--everything from waterfilters, to cookbooks, to grainmills! Go over and check it out before July 10 to enter!