Which Austen Heroine Are You?

I took this quiz twice (once today and once about 6 months ago) and I still came up 'Elizabeth Bennet' of Pride & Prejudice. Which Austen heroine are you?




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Excited Seniors

Senior Year...1st Day

Here are Savannah's first day of school pictures. She is officially a Senior in High school and I am in shock. She is so excited to see her friends again, but a little sad summer break is over. We all remember those feelings don't we? I wonder if she will let us do 1st day pictures on her first day of college. I'm sure her Daddy will insist. We are proud parents.

As If You Were the Only One

"He who calls the stars by their names is in no danger of forgetting His own children. He knows your situation as if you were the only creature He ever made and the only saint He ever loved." --Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Reading Next

Summary: Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt — a passionate man with his own dark secrets —has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.

With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis. -- Algonquin Books

Irish Nightshirts

My all time favorite nightshirt is one that my friend Debbie gave me for Christmas one year. I have literally worn it out until it has holes in it and is on its way to being a dust cloth. It is a cotton on the outside and a brushed cotton (flannel) on the inside. She gave Jodie & Elaine one too and theirs is also in tatters. Elaine said she even painted in hers because it was so comfortable.

Well, I finally found a new one. Magee of Donegal is the Irish brand name and I can't wait for it to get here. I ordered it from the Woods of Shropshire store in England. I look forward to having this one for years too.