My new homemaking blog

For a while I have been considering having a second blog that deals with homemaking. With Lindsay's help it is now up and running. You can visit it at Keeping My Home.

My Kitchen

I recently spent a few days re-organizing my kitchen.  We took everything out of every cabinet and moved it around.  It was very disorganized for a few days, but I am really pleased with the results.  Having 7 people living in a single wide mobile home can be challenging at times, but the Lord has provided creativity to arrive at storage solutions. One of my biggest hurdles was food storage.  Previously I had many things on top of the refrigerators and freezer (I have two refrigerators and an upright deep-freeze in my kitchen). I always hated the way it looked, because it seemed to never look neat and organized.  I realized I needed to be able to store things on the top, but wanted to do it attractively.  We came up with a solution that I think works well.  I hope that you enjoy my pictures of my ideas.  I am working on new curtains for the windows and then I'll be done for a while.  I hope to paint eventually, but I don't know how soon it will be.

To handle all of the things I needed to have extra storage for, I used glass jars and cannisters on top of the appliances.  It gave me the storage I needed, but didn't look cluttered.  Here are pictures from the tops of my fridges and freezer:







For storing beans, Lindsay came up with the idea of using the orange juice pitchers.  I think they turned out pretty well; good idea Lins!



Here's a picture of the two fridges and the freezer:



At a later date, I will post pictures of the rest of the kitchen, maybe after I get the curtains up.

Kirk Cameron on the O'Reilly Factor

Wed. April 12th, Kirk Cameron will be on the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Network. You may ask yourself, what does that have to do with me? If you are a Christian, it will have a lot to do with you. Kirk is one of the co-leaders of a ministry named Way of the Master, which was started to teach Christians how to share their faith Biblically. He has spent the last several years speaking out for Biblical Christianity and is often called on when Spiritual matters are being discussed on news shows. Recently ABC's Dateline had a show with him and Ray Comfort (the other co-founder of WOTM) in which they tried to portray them as narrow minded because of the Biblical view of there being only one way to God, which is through Jesus Christ. It is important for non-Christians as well as Christians to be given the truth of God's word, not just the Joel Osteen version of the truth. It will be interesting to see what Bill O'Reilly has to say to Kirk. Please be praying for Kirk, as I know that his goal is to use these opportunities to spread the gospel. Pray that he will be able to effectively get his message out and that God will be working in people's lives through him. Encourage friends and family who may not be saved to watch. It will give you an excellent opportunity to talk to them about spiritual things, which is a great springboard for sharing the complete gospel with them. If you are unsure how to share your faith with them, visit Living Waters for tons of great tools.

Here's a picture of Gene & Kirk when Gene was in Los Angeles back in January.