The Longest Winter

I have dreamed so many dreams this winter.. How the garden will be laid out, What fabrics i will use to style my little girls twirly skirts for spring's rompings around. I have dreamed much about soap making, which by the way, has proved to be a very fruitful endeavor indeed. I have spent many a dreary afternoon thinking of the millions of dollars i will make selling my soap to folks who love it so much its all they will wash with. I have also been spending much time reading and studding about the " back to basics" life stlye... The whole self reliant way of life is so intriguing to me. I have so many wandering thoughts about the days of old when ladies aprons were infact a part of their daily atire. When good food came from hands and stoves and not cans and microwaves. When children werent labled with syndromes and disorders, they were let to grow and thrive in their own way. When homeschool was the only school and times when mothers were the ones mothering their young. When I first became a christian, I was so intimidated by the proverbes 31 woman. How would I ever live up to her? At that time i couldnt sew. I burned popcorn in the microwave ( making popcorn was about the extent of my cooking ability) and i didnt know the first thing about managing finances or doing anything remotly worth while. But i am shocked as I stand back all these years later and re-read those verses and see that woman in me. I feel so full of the things I never expected i'd become. Thats the great thing about Jesus. He turns you into someone you never thought you'd be. But its good someone. A profitable someone. And encouraging someone. How lost i would be with out Him. So here is to spring and all the goings on of warmer weather. To being the best women and mothers we can possibly be and to living up to the expectations of God not man.