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My name is Angie. I am the wife, mother, educator, and friend behind Fresh Wanderings. I love slow, simple days spent at home where I can be found creating, gardening, baking, educating our children, and spending time in God's Word. Welcome to the place where all of these things culminate into one.

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Just a peek at what the week after Christmas looke

Just a peek at what the week after Christmas looked like around here: sunshine and unseasonably high temperatures. We soaked in all we could before the weather changed and now we’re welcoming some winter precipitation.

When we came home from dinner with friends and family this evening we walked in to such a warm and cozy house. You could feel the warmth envelop you like a big hug and I couldn’t help but think how grateful I am for a place that we get to call home. I hope no matter where the seasons take us, no matter where our children live when they are older or how many new people we welcome into our family that we always have a place to gather that feels like this. 🏠 #nurtureandgather #fresh_wanderings_dwell

I published the January 2022 Morning Time Bundle t

I published the January 2022 Morning Time Bundle today. There is a lot to enjoy during the winter season. I hope you love it!

🌲Music – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Vaughan Williams
🌲Poetry – Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
🌲Art – Gathering Wood by Pierre-Edouard Frere
🌲Scripture – Psalm 139:7-10 – God is Omnipresent
🌲Nature Study (a simple guide for study)- The Hemlock using the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
🌲Character Study (photo and introduction) – Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
🌲Craft – Felt Mittens
🌲Recipe – Gingerbread Cookies
🌲Four Weeks of Suggested Learning

“A pleasant atmosphere in the home creates a bea

“A pleasant atmosphere in the home creates a beautiful background for happy memories. Because I want the warm atmosphere and the good memories it fosters, I plan for it. I plan the meals, including how I set the dinner table and make it beautiful. I plan for order in the home, for the housework, for the laundry, and for the upkeep of our clothing so that life is calmer. I plan surprises, too, so that life at home is fun. If all the planning sounds like a lot of effort, remember that no work of art is slapdashed together. Artistry calls for planning and design, and so does the work of art called ‘Home.'” —Elizabeth George

So thankful for this role of homemaker that I play in our home. I’m still learning so much, especially how to plan and prepare. I fail often at laundry, don’t always have dinner planned, and definitely don’t always set a magnificent table, but I am learning that love is expressed in many forms and am confident that in the places where I am weak it is there that Christ is strong.

Love this map from @mapiful and the beautiful way it serves as a reminder that we are building this house on a foundation of love.

Discount code for 10% off of your own map is freshwanderings10 and is valid through the end of December.

#mapiful #mapifulfamily #partnershipwithmapiful #yesmapiful

baking day! I would have taken pictures of the coo

baking day! I would have taken pictures of the cookies, brittle, and cakes but the real highlight was the people. 🎄

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the conte

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot 🌲 Christmas is practically here and after it a new year. Goodness. I know it’s not just me who feels as though this time of year comes so quickly. I’ve been entertaining a lot of thoughts lately of how I would like my new year to look. There’s always so much that could be added to the list but in the end I think I’m most hungry to nurture relationships that are the most dear. I’m learning, especially as our children grow and change, that to have and be a friend like the one described above is truly a treasure worth pursuing.

I read a cute winter quote the other day that said

I read a cute winter quote the other day that said “if kisses were snowflakes, I’d send you a blizzard.” If that we’re true, my kids would be buried deep.

What a privilege it is to be a mother.

Luke 11:27-28 mentions a lady who understood the the gift it is to be a mother and more specifically the gift it was to be the mother of Jesus. She was in a crowd of onlookers, watching Jesus, and as He was talking she raised her voice and said, “blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts of which you nursed!” But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word and keep it.”

In other words, we are more blessed to be spiritually related to Jesus - than to stand in one of the nearest human relationships to him, than to be His mother.
It’s so hard to imagine….to be more blessed than Mary and to have a relationship with Him that exceeds one of the great human relationships that we may ever experience. Yet, He says we are and that we can. We have certainly been given a great gift! 🎁🎁

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Just a peek at what the week after Christmas looke

Just a peek at what the week after Christmas looked like around here: sunshine and unseasonably high temperatures. We soaked in all we could before the weather changed and now we’re welcoming some winter precipitation.

When we came home from dinner with friends and family this evening we walked in to such a warm and cozy house. You could feel the warmth envelop you like a big hug and I couldn’t help but think how grateful I am for a place that we get to call home. I hope no matter where the seasons take us, no matter where our children live when they are older or how many new people we welcome into our family that we always have a place to gather that feels like this. 🏠 #nurtureandgather #fresh_wanderings_dwell

I published the January 2022 Morning Time Bundle t

I published the January 2022 Morning Time Bundle today. There is a lot to enjoy during the winter season. I hope you love it!

🌲Music – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Vaughan Williams
🌲Poetry – Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
🌲Art – Gathering Wood by Pierre-Edouard Frere
🌲Scripture – Psalm 139:7-10 – God is Omnipresent
🌲Nature Study (a simple guide for study)- The Hemlock using the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
🌲Character Study (photo and introduction) – Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
🌲Craft – Felt Mittens
🌲Recipe – Gingerbread Cookies
🌲Four Weeks of Suggested Learning

“A pleasant atmosphere in the home creates a bea

“A pleasant atmosphere in the home creates a beautiful background for happy memories. Because I want the warm atmosphere and the good memories it fosters, I plan for it. I plan the meals, including how I set the dinner table and make it beautiful. I plan for order in the home, for the housework, for the laundry, and for the upkeep of our clothing so that life is calmer. I plan surprises, too, so that life at home is fun. If all the planning sounds like a lot of effort, remember that no work of art is slapdashed together. Artistry calls for planning and design, and so does the work of art called ‘Home.'” —Elizabeth George

So thankful for this role of homemaker that I play in our home. I’m still learning so much, especially how to plan and prepare. I fail often at laundry, don’t always have dinner planned, and definitely don’t always set a magnificent table, but I am learning that love is expressed in many forms and am confident that in the places where I am weak it is there that Christ is strong.

Love this map from @mapiful and the beautiful way it serves as a reminder that we are building this house on a foundation of love.

Discount code for 10% off of your own map is freshwanderings10 and is valid through the end of December.

#mapiful #mapifulfamily #partnershipwithmapiful #yesmapiful

baking day! I would have taken pictures of the coo

baking day! I would have taken pictures of the cookies, brittle, and cakes but the real highlight was the people. 🎄

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the conte

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot 🌲 Christmas is practically here and after it a new year. Goodness. I know it’s not just me who feels as though this time of year comes so quickly. I’ve been entertaining a lot of thoughts lately of how I would like my new year to look. There’s always so much that could be added to the list but in the end I think I’m most hungry to nurture relationships that are the most dear. I’m learning, especially as our children grow and change, that to have and be a friend like the one described above is truly a treasure worth pursuing.

I read a cute winter quote the other day that said

I read a cute winter quote the other day that said “if kisses were snowflakes, I’d send you a blizzard.” If that we’re true, my kids would be buried deep.

What a privilege it is to be a mother.

Luke 11:27-28 mentions a lady who understood the the gift it is to be a mother and more specifically the gift it was to be the mother of Jesus. She was in a crowd of onlookers, watching Jesus, and as He was talking she raised her voice and said, “blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts of which you nursed!” But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word and keep it.”

In other words, we are more blessed to be spiritually related to Jesus - than to stand in one of the nearest human relationships to him, than to be His mother.
It’s so hard to imagine….to be more blessed than Mary and to have a relationship with Him that exceeds one of the great human relationships that we may ever experience. Yet, He says we are and that we can. We have certainly been given a great gift! 🎁🎁

It’s amazing how a tiny little spot on a map can

Lately I’ve been re-working the plans for the ho

Lately I’ve been re-working the plans for the house remodel that we hope to do this coming spring. With each change our priorities have to be reevaluated. Some things get cut and others get added. What is it that we really want this remodel to accomplish?

This time of year I think of Mary in the stable after giving birth, exhilarated and quietly content - grateful, satisfied, and trembling all at once. In one night, that stable, it’s sole purpose meant to house and feed animals, became home to this small family of three. In it they were introduced to Love Incarnate as Jesus became flesh, and in it they introduced the shepherds to the Savior of the World

It was only because of love that a stable could ever become a home.

And this is my desire: that the placement of walls, bathrooms, windows and the long list of dreams we have don’t suffocate the main thing. Let this be a place where Christ is welcome, a place where He is worshipped and adored, and let this house be built with love.

✨✨✨

#mapiful #yesmapiful #partnershipwithmapiful #mapifulfamily

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