The Thoughtful Homemaker

I am reading about the scandals of the early 1300’s trying to understand what happened. I just could not visualize what was going on. That is because I was trying to interpret 14th century history in a post- modern way which is impossible. Ideas of family life and even privacy and “rights” were different back […]

We got through the remodeling anything else can wait until later. Now we are focusing on cleaning the house and carpeting it.
I am also trying to get my house now ready for the move. That is difficult because I am sick with a bad cold and Aron is being sooo rotten! I also had a […]

I know I am moving soon to my new house yet I haven’t blogged much about it. I guess that is because I think about it all day and the blog is where I relax and vent.
I am happy about my new home. I am surprised at the work my husband does. He […]

Of course we all know that Edward II has a bit of a reputation. He was considered a terrible king and a homosexual who had a weakness for spoiling his favorites. Edward was the only son the Edward I “the Hammer of the Scots” and Eleanor of Castile whose other sons had died young. They […]

I am doing a lot of reading on Philip IV, Edward II, and Isabella of France. I thought I was pretty obsessed, especially once I found out I am a direct descendant of these people. That was until I found a blog exclusively about Edward II and then found a blog on Hugh le Despencer. […]

I have watched The Young and the Restless since I was about 4 years old. My mother watches it, my grandmother watches it, and my great grandmother watched it. Lately the show has taken a disappointing turn. One of the main characters has three potential fathers for her unborn child and almost everyone in town […]

My mind has been so busy lately. I have a weird idea in my head and so I am working on that. I am carefully researching the descendants of the sisters from Provence, Marguerite, Eleanor, and Beatrice. There is a sister named Sanchia but she only had one son who never had children of his […]

I used to write about the weird dreams I have been having, which I jokingly refer to as my zoloft dreams, but forgot to share them to you in a while. That is too bad because I had some totally awesome dreams in the past few weeks. I will just share the past two nights […]

The year was 1631 in during the Golden Age of the Mughal Empire in what is now India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (King of the World), a descendant of the great Babur who was a descendant of the great Timur was at the bed of his third and beloved Persian wife, Mumtaz Mahal. She […]

This is a wonderful talk given by Elder David A. Bednar of the LDS church given to BYU Idaho for their CES Fireside. He talks about the dangers of minimizing the use of our bodies and how it can be as dangerous as misusing our body. We minimize our body by living in a […]

It has been so long since I promised that I would write about my trip to London. At least I was able to write about Westminster Abbey.
We arrived on a Saturday and took a long bus ride with tourists from Spain from Gatwick Airport to Victoria Train Station. Then dragging our luggage we walked […]

It has been a while. My ears were seriously in pain, especially the right one. Any loud noise sent me running off in tears. I still have trouble being in restaurants and when people blast rap crap from their SUV’s I go near insane and scream “turn it down!!!!” Other than that I am feeling […]