Thanks for an interesting discussion on government and personal responsibility. I didn't really mean to spark a firestorm of comments, but I hope it was instructive and thought-provoking nonetheless!As we enter 2008, I am excited about some changes for our business and I'll try to outline them briefly below so that you can have an idea of what's to come and changes taking place:
1) As I've alluded to before, we are making some significant changes in our business. After much prayer and clear direction from the Lord,
we will no longer be selling products other than our own from our website. This downsizing will hopefully allow more time for me to devote to our home and family and more time for me to devote to writing and blogging. I'm still in the process of putting up our simple shopping cart page - it should be finished soon! We'll be liquidating all of our current inventory over the next few weeks so if you are interested in scoring some great deals on God-honoring, encouraging products for your family, be sure to
sign up for our newsletter to receive notice of these closeout sales.
2) Instead of selling a variety of products from different publishers on our website,
I plan to have a large section of our website devoted to reviews of recommended products which you will be able to purchase from other websites. This will hopefully provide the best of both worlds - the ability for me to share about many products our family loves and finds useful without me having to spend hours of my time shipping out orders. This section of our website is in the works right now and should be available soon. I plan to update it weekly with new product reviews.
3) Since I will be freeing up a lot of my business time to devote to more writing and blogging,
Lord-willing, you can expect to see more ebooks and books produced by us this year in addition to more blogging and more regular features on this blog. I receive so many emails every week literally begging for more blog posts or ebooks/books on certain topics and I'm hoping to have more time to devote to these.
Planned additions to this blog for 2008 include:-Making Your Home a Haven Challenge - this feature from December was so well-loved and I've had a lot of requests for more of this so the plan is that every Monday I'll post a
Making Your Home a Haven Challenge and encourage you to join in with me. I hope this is in inspiration to you all as you seek to bless your families and I also hope that it encourages you to get the week off to a good start.
-Getting Back on Track series - I confess that this is for
me most of all. I've made a commitment to be more organized this next year, so I'm going to publicly share about my journey towards more organization in our home and in my life. I'll be tweaking our household schedule, our cleaning schedule, my home management binder, and more. I'm looking forward to the accountability and am hoping some of it might be helpful to you all as well.
-Home Education at Our House series - Since Kathrynne is turning three in a few weeks, we will begin doing more educational things as part of our everyday life. I hope to share what we're doing, reading, studying, learning, and so forth in a weekly or bi-weekly series.
-In the Kitchen - In an effort to help out those of you who are new to homemaking, I'm planning to start a regular feature on cooking and baking. This will likely include some of my favorite recipes complete with pictures and instructions. I also hope to post some hints and tips on menu-planning and stretching a limited food budget.
-Book Reviews - Each week (or at least every other week), I hope to share reviews of what we've been reading around here including books I've read, books I've read to the girls, and books we've read as a family. I've set a personal goal to read and review at least one book here per week. I usually am overly-ambitious when it comes to my proposed reading list, but at least I can aim high, right?!
-Hot Topics - I plan to delve into more hot topics this next year on an occasional basis including the Biblical role of women, feminism, what's an unmarried woman to do?, and more. I may very well close comments on some of these posts since I try to avoid contention and unprofitable debate here.
-Topical Series - I'm hoping to do a series for newlyweds, a series on Proverbs 31 as it applies to us today, and a series on women in the Bible.
-Guest Posts - It's been awhile since we've had guest posts around here and I'm hoping to revive that feature this next year. I'm especially hoping for some wise words from older women. If you'd be interested in having a guest post featured here, please
email me.
-And of course, you'll continue to see the usual eclectic fare of question and answer posts, input requested posts, frugal tips on Friday, Tuesday giveaways, notable links, pictures of the girls, funny stories from our everyday life, random thoughts, and whatever else I might come across to share with you.
Thank you for being here, for your kind notes, constructive criticism, excellent and thought-provoking comments, and your suggested topic ideas. I always welcome your input and would love to hear if you have a topic you'd like to see blogged about here. Just
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