The Thoughtful Homemaker

My great great great grandmother, Leonie Louiza Dumanet, was born in France. Her family came to Tennessee in 1849 and had a tanning business along the banks of the Tennessee River. There were several French and Belgian families opening up tanning businesses, bakeries, etc in the small town of Lobelville, started by the Belgian-Frenchman Henri […]

I was doing some research on Melusine, an actual mythological being from Anjou and found a weird book “The Dragon Legacy: The Secret of an Ancient Bloodline” by Nicholas De Vere. I was specifically reading about Melusine but as I read on the book got weirder and weirder.
It started out very interesting. I studied […]

Think about that word. Doesn’t that sound like a beautiful word? How I wish humans could go hide in a cave for a few months and just sleeeeeeeeeeep. There would be no cold, no snow to dig, no stupid illnesses, just sleep. I would turn off my phone and just have weird dreams for months. […]

I had insomnia one night and so I watched the entire first interview of Yoko and John on the Dick Cavett show. I have always heard about it but saw it for the first time. After watching that show I understand now why people so despised Yoko. I know that I really wanted to hear […]

I looked out of the window and saw this:

Just when I thought the zombie threat was defeated, they came back again in a second form known as strep throat. The zombies go right to the throat and multiply and multiply and you can’t swallow and you freak out thinking you have a tumor or something. […]

I have read once that zombies represent the passing of disease, the spread of death that eats our flesh. Stories of zombies and vampirism (except the ones who sparkle:-)) come from that inner fear of disease that in times past would wipe out entire villages. Today on the USA, death is not as common, but […]

One thing I am sooooo sick of is that whenever there is a disaster of some sort and Pat Robertson, Rush, or somebody generally hated by the media shares their opinion, the media takes that person’s opinion and SHOCK it becomes news. With Rush however, it is usually taken out of context and Pat Robertson […]

I am right now working on a post about a very interesting prince Enrique of Castile, the brother of Alfonso X of Castile and Eleanor wife of Edward I. It is a lot of work. In the meantime I will post about another favorite Medieval Warrior. The warrior is Robert Guiscard.
A minor lord name Tancred […]

I froze all weekend. Aziz would say that a certain organ was frozen off. It got down to about 17 degrees F over the weekend and my heater decided to break down. Then when cooking pizza in my oven something dropped into the gas flame and my house was filled with smoke. The smoke alarm […]

Our lesson today will be about the importance of having a family home evening. We will discuss how to have a more successful Family Home Evening. After the short lesson we will make an assignment wheel. Lds.org has an instant family home evening agenda that you fill in and print out. I hope it all […]

This is the first day we went back to our old routines. Aziz started his training again. The kids went to school and Aron had his first day of joy school. I held it at my house and it went well. I had a lot of fun with the boys. We made igloos out of […]

I am trying to be a better blogger this year. It does take a lot more work than you might think!
So it is the start of a new year, twenty ten not two thousand ten. I was tired of saying “two thousand” so I am excited to say twenty ten. I didn’t do too […]