About the Author {10 Random Facts} and a Happy New Year

Greetings, dear ladies!  It is rather hard for me to do an "about page" so here are 10 RANDOM FACTS instead. I am choosing to answer with some sentiments from favorite quotes and literature as well:

1.  I am in love with history!..

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” 

~ Rudyard Kipling

2.  Dark chocolate is my weakness and my strength :) Milk chocolate has no power over me...

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”

~ Katharine Hepburn

3.  My dark hair reaches my waist and my Heavenly Hairdresser has begun weaving in some silver highlights...

"Long hair minimizes the need for barbers…"

~ Albert Einstein

"Gray hair is a crown of splendor…" (this keeps me going ;)
~ Proverbs 16:31 NIV

4.  I own over 1,000 books (purchased second-hand) and read several at a time because I dear reader, am a moody reader...

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! --

When I have a house of my own,

I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

5.  I drink my coffee with heavy cream and raw honey. I *love* my morning cup...

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”

~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

6.  I ball my head off when reading aloud to my family… (I'll never forget my husband's face when he saw me struggling for words with tears pouring down my cheeks while reading to my four year old. I couldn't even finish the sentence. "What's wrong?!" he asked. "Charlotte died!!!", I cried. You wouldn't believe his expression when he found out that she was just a spider…)

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas!"

~ Jane Austen, Persuasion

7.  I love and live (and will probably die) in a rugged denim skirt...

"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle.

She is gracious, she is godly and she is giving...

You and I, if we are women, have the gift of femininity.

Very often it is obscured just as the image of God is obscured in all of us...

The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified.

As I say to you women, 'Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God."

~ Elisabeth Elliot

8.  I am a very passionate person which can be good and it can also be bad...

“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes,
and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”
~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

9.  My three favorite novels are Stepping Heavenward, Ishmael and Pride and Prejudice...

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

~ Louisa May Alcott

10.  I love being a keeper at home (oops, I suppose you already know that!)...

“It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?”

~ Audrey Hepburn

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” 

~ Jane Austen

What about you? Do you share any of my weird "randomness"?

Thank you to all the ladies who have been so gracious with kind comments this past year and I look forward to reading your inspiring blogs this upcoming one! It is nice to see what like-minded women are up to!

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.

It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” 

~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Love, JES

I am an old-fashioned, Bible-believing, wife to my "one and only" for 18 years, homeschooling mother, who embraces her role as "keeper at home". We live on a 25-acre prairie farm. For fun… my three main earthly weaknesses (in no particular order) are coffee, dark chocolate and hardcover books. What about you? My hope is that this blog will inspire you in the arts of homemaking, homeschooling and homesteading. Have a lovely week!