"There is a time for everything..."

"...and a season for every activity under the heavens."   Ecclesiastes 3,1

I think the time has come to end my blog... I try not to spend so much time in front of the computer, and a blog takes some time. Even though I love to blog and most of all read all the wonderful blogs you ladies write I feel like a waste my time and my life while sitting in front of the lap-top. I will not end up by feeling at the end of my life that I spent too much of my best years on the internet... I'm sure I will pop in to your blogs from time to time, but I hope I will spend most of my time as a mother, a wife, a housewife and a friend in the real world. Thanks to all my followers and everyone who has given me kind comments :-)
Blessings to you all!

The magic of reading!

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

Carl Sagan

Do you want to be my pen friend..?

I love to write letters, and think of that wonderful feeling when you go to your mailbox and find a letter in it :-) So I would like to have more of that! So if you are a kindred spirit and would like to be my pen friend, please post a comment and leave your name and adress there, or your mail adress. I will not make your comments public at this post, so what are you waiting for??! Write a bit about your self too :-) and perhaps I write you a letter!

Never forget!

"The most important things in your house are people."

Amish proverb

The never ending work

"I am thankful for a lawn that needs moving, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby."

Nancie J. Carmody

There are different kinds of books

"Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with dilligence and attention."

Francis Bacon

Learning...

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by my self."

George Bernhard Shaw

He just forgot "a family"...

"May I a small house and a large garden have; and a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise, and both delightful too!"

Abraham Cowley

Some lovely words...

"Namnsdag" by Fanny Brate

"Far away there in sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

Louisa May Alcott

In harmony...

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi

I think this must be my goal for the new year!

A fresh start!

I am not a very organized person. I wish I was, I know planning and having good habits makes housework - and everything else! - so much more easier. I have a goal to become a well organized housekeeper, and in front of a new year I'm full of exitment and good intensions! It was such a blessing for me when I read Katy's post on her wonderful blog Country Blossom about keeping a journal. You can read it here http://countryblossom.blogspot.com/2009/10/treasury-of-simple-moments.html.
I started in March 2011, and I love my journal! Both to write in it and go back and read things I have written there. And with all the beautiful pictures in it that I've taken from old magazines it's such a joy to use it!
On the first day of the new year I made the front-page of a new journal, and when I look at it I allready feel a lot more organized and prepared :-)

A Happy New Year to all of you!