After a particularly long day with my wonderful family, I love to sit and watch the video series Homestead Blessings. They are dvds that teach you how to do everything from making candles to making butter. The West ladies are sweet homespun ladies in long skirts, aprons, long hair and huge smiles and they have such a peaceful demeanor. Their activities always look so fun and easy. We have actually attempted some! Even my motor child will sit for an hour and watch these peaceful ladies explain how to dip candles and make soap molds. Their beautiful southern drawls and colloquialisms are sweet and make me smile. They are so very different from who I am and to be honest, who I want to be, and still very refreshing. My princess daughter said that she would like to be a homesteader for a week. Then she made butter. Now she just wants to watch the videos. I love my daughter. She is so much like me^.^! These videos are just enough of what homesteading life must be like to make me appreciate my modern city life. My adventures into homestead homemaking are for fun, not for necessity and for that I am grateful. If I needed to, I could make my own soap, grow potatoes, make beeswax candles, concoct my own herbal remedies, make my own pizza crust, can sauerkraut, make a pot roast, and milk a cow. Thank you to Franklin Springs Family Media for bring these delightful ladies into our home. Thank you especially to Vicki West for raising such wonderful daughters and for reminding me what a blessing the little things in life are. This dvd series is "such a blessin'!"
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