Monthly Archives: January 2009
I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part two
The book is back. First I want to deal with something that came up in the comments. In NZ we don’t really have a culture of dating, especially among those in their teens and early twenties. Young people tend to meet each other in group situations and would become a steady couple with out going [...]
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Jack-boots and beans
Has anyone noticed how trendy vegetable gardening is? For once I’m up with the trend, I’ve been vege gardening for about 15 years. I think the popularity of growing your own vege has been driven by a number of factors. The growing price of veges in the supermarket makes grow your own worth the effort. [...]
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The battle of the Blue Penguin
My girls got this really cool game for Christmas. It’s called the Amazing Moa Hunt and it’s a game that tests your NZ geography. If you are looking for a present for a family or your family I would thoroughly recommend it. But the main purpose of this post is not to encourage consumerism. We [...]
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Chicken Curry
Let’s take a break from books to talk about food. Before Christmas I needed a meal that I could throw in the slow cooker in the morning and serve on rice when I got home. A curry fitted the bill nicely but I only had one good slow cooker curry recipe. It was for lamb [...]
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part one
This book was first published over 10 years ago. Because it has been around a while some of the ideas had filtered in to the Christian community. So before I began reading this book I was not unfamiliar with Joshua Harris’s ideas. In the first part of I Kissed Dating Goodbye (IKDG) Harris draws on [...]
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I’ve kissed dating good bye
I bet there is no surprise there, I’ve been married to the Hubster for almost 15 years. While on Holiday I read Joshua Harris’s book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’. You may wonder why a women in her 30’s who has been married for a long time wanted to read a book about dating. I have [...]
Beans for miles
Homely Wife has been on holiday. This year we actually went away, to the South Island. Being homely sort people we don’t do this very often. Holidays are supposed to leave you feeling rested. I’m not sure that this works for our family, all I seemed to get was bad dose of sunburn and grumpy [...]
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I Kissed Dating Good Bye – part three