A Girlhood Home Companion

Dear Friends,

Thank you for coming by our home today~we hope you enjoy your stay!

Today we would like to share with you one of our favorite magazines: The Girlhood Home Companion. Although this magazine is geared toward girls from age 10 to 18, I know a few ladies without daughters who enjoy it, as well!

We have had the opportunity of perusing the holiday edition, which was recently been published, and must say that it is as beautifully done as any of the other issues we have seen. Each issue is filled with godly encouragement for young ladies and their families, and includes well-written articles concerning manners and morals, as well as "how to" articles covering meal planning, serving others, etc. And, to top it off, it has paper dolls! :)

If you haven't been introduced to this wonderful publication already, we think you would enjoy it very much!

Love,

Marqueta

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God Bless the Commonplace

God bless the commonplace! We strain and fret
Through wearisome and unproductive days,
Striving to carve new destinies, or blaze
A trail through unaccustomed lands. We let
The feverish years possess us, and forget,
In our tense seeking for untrodden ways,
The common heritage, nor care to raise
Altars to dear familiar things-and yet
When shadows lengthen and the busy hum
Of life falls faintly on half-hearing ears,
With vision dimmed and feeble step we come
Back to the homely joys of bygone years--
Love and a hearthstone and a dear worn face,
And through our tears we bless the commonplace.

~Anonymous