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Christian Marriage Quotes

March 27, 2017 by Mrs. Hudson

I am a words person. I put up sticky notes to remind me and inspire me. I print out Christian marriage quotes to remind myself what I want my marriage to be and how I want to be better as a wife. I hope some of these inspire you. I would challenge you to print out a few and put them in your war room or on your bathroom mirror. Reading something inspiring over and over again plants good seeds that will produce the fruit we want to see in our marriages.

God didn’t design marriage to make us happy. He designed it to make us Holy.

It is easy to get caught up in the arms of our husband and turn to him and depend on him. But, we must remember that he is not the source of our joy or our strength. Our husbands are a blessing given to us by the source of our joy and strength, Jesus Christ! Take time today and hold tight to Jesus first and then give your husband a tight hug recognizing that that is the order in which you should always operate. Jesus first and then your husband. Our husbands can not fulfill the longing in us for our Savior. The tighter we hold on to them in the hopes that they will the more we will be let down. Hold tight to Jesus and He will wrap you both in His arms and create a bond between you that is better than you could have ever imagined!

The world looks cold and bitter and most of the time upset at something. Is that what you want for your marriage? That is not what I want for mine. I want one that looks like Jesus. I want a marriage that is full of forgiveness and joy. What do you want your marriage to look like?

Which one of these Christian marriage quotes was your favorite? Do you have one to share? If so please post it in the comments!

Plants That Repel Bugs in Vegetable Garden | Stacy Hudson | Better Than Newlyweds

August 1, 2014 by Mrs. Hudson

In an effort to be either frugal, healthy, or both many people take up vegetable gardening! The problem with that is when your plants start to grow little bugs move in too! Below is a list of plants that help keep the little critters away so you can enjoy the fruits…. I mean vegetables… of you labor!

Jeremiah 29:5

‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.

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Plant	Pests
artemisias	repels insects,^[2] including ants, cabbage looper, cabbage maggot, carrot fly, codling moth, flea beetles, whiteflies, the Cabbage White, and the Small White, as well as mice^[3]
basil	repels flies, including mosquitoes^[2]^[4] and the carrot fly, plus asparagus beetles and whiteflies^[3]
borage	repels tomato hornworm and cabbage worms^[2]
castor bean	repels moles^[3]
catnip	repels ants, flea beetles, aphids, the Japanese beetle, squash bugs, weevils,^[2] the Colorado potato beetle, the cabbage looper,^[3] and cockroaches^[4]
chamomile	repels flying insects^[4]
chives	repels carrot fly, Japanese beetle,^[2] and aphids^[3]
chrysanthemums	repel roaches, ants, the Japanese beetle, ticks, silverfish, lice, fleas, bedbugs, and root-knot nematodes^[2]
citronella grass	repels insects, may deter cats^[5]
citrosa	repels insects,^[5] including mosquitoes^[4]
clovers	repel aphids and wireworms^[3]
common lantana	repels mosquitoes^[1]
coriander	repels aphids, Colorado potato beetle, and spider mites^[3]
cosmos	repel the corn earworm
crown imperial	repel rabbits, mice, moles, voles and ground squirrels^[6]
dahlias	repel nematodes^[2]
dill	repels aphids, squash bugs, spider mites,^[2] the cabbage looper, the tomato hornworm, and the Small White^[3]
eucalyptus	repels aphids, the cabbage looper, and the Colorado potato beetle^[3]
fennel	repels aphids, slugs, and snails^[3]
fever tea	repels mosquitoes^[1]
four o’clocks	attract and poison the Japanese beetle^[2]
French marigold	repels whiteflies, kills nematodes^[2]
garlic	repels aphids, Japanese beetle, carrot fly, codling moth, snails, root maggots,^[2] cabbage looper, Mexican bean beetle, peach tree borer, and rabbits^[3]
geraniums	repel leafhoppers, the corn earworm, and the Small White^[3]
hyssop	repels the cabbage looper and the Small White^[3]
larkspurs	repel aphids^[3]
lavender	repels moths, fleas, and flies, including mosquitoes^[4]
leek	repels carrot fly^[3]
lemon balm	repels mosquitoes^[4]
lemon thyme	repels mosquitoes^[4]
lettuce	repels carrot fly^[3]
lime basil	repels mosquitoes^[1]
Mexican marigold	repels insects and rabbits^[2]
myrrh	repels insects^[5]
narcissus	repel moles^[3]
nasturtiums	repel whiteflies, squash bugs,^[2] aphids, many beetles, and the cabbage looper^[3]
onion	repels rabbits, the cabbage looper, and the Small White^[3]
oregano	repellent to many pests^[3]
parsley	repels asparagus beetles^[3]
peppermint	repels aphids, cabbage looper, flea beetles, squash bugs, whiteflies, and the Small White^[3]
petunias	repel aphids, tomato hornworm, asparagus beetles, leafhoppers,^[2] and squash bugs^[3]
pitcher plants	traps and ingests insects
radish	repels cabbage maggot and cucumber beetles^[3]
rosemary	repels cabbage looper, carrot fly, slugs, snails, and the Mexican bean beetle^[3]
rue	repels cucumber and flea beetles
spearmint	repels fleas, moths, ants, beetles, rodents,^[4] aphids, squash bugs, and the cabbage looper^[3]
spiny amaranth	repels cutworms
stone root	repels mosquitoes^[5]
summer savory	repels bean beetles^[3]
tansy	repels ants, many beetles and flies, squash bugs, cutworms, Small White, and Cabbage White^[3]
thyme	repels cabbage looper, cabbage maggot, corn earworm, whiteflies, tomato hornworm, and Small White
tobacco	repels carrot fly and flea beetles^[3]
tomato	repels asparagus beetles^[3]
venus flytrap	ingests insects^[4]

DIY Curb Appeal Makeover Phase 1: Front Garden Project |Stacy Hudson |Better Than Newlyweds

June 10, 2014 by Mrs. Hudson

So my to do list for my business, household, house projects, and just life never seems to end. I’m trying to just get things done instead of waiting to have the perfect plan to get things done… cause in reality… things never work out like we plan them anyways right?! And DONE is better than NOT! So we are learning to do things in phases. Sometimes that means things look a little ugly before they get prettier BUT the important part is they eventually GET DONE!

Our front garden area was always a project we knew we would have to tackle one day but we just didn’t know when and it really wasn’t a priority. Well, over the past few months we have been praying about the path God wanted us to take and a calling for us to possibly move. This would mean of course, selling our house. THAT would mean A LOT of things but we knew that it for sure meant we needed to work on our curb appeal in case that was the direction we felt like God wanted us to go. So we got to work!

This is a picture of the front garden as it has grown over the past year and a half or so that we have lived here…obviously we neglected it and it grew!

front before 20140302_175341 — This is a picture of the front garden as it has grown over the past year and a half or so that we have lived here…obviously we neglected it and it grew!

So first thing I did was trim what we already had in place and it looked better BUT neither of us was really happy with that as the final product. And with my HH (Handsome Hubby) being a realtor… I knew for sure it wasn’t gonna fly like that if we ended up selling and moving. What do you think……(picture below)? 😀

So we decided to dig everything up. Some of the plants we decided to relocate… others we gave away or just tossed. You know no one wants those annoying painful sticker plants anyhow! It always seems we wait til it is warmish or hot to do outdoor projects! One year we will have to do these when it is cooler out! Either way phase 1 of clean up and dig up was under way! We had some leftover pavers from the patio we put in on the side of our carport (post coming soon) and I wanted to use them in the front somewhere. I tried them out for a path way but decided to do something else with them that I’ll be posting about later! So stay tuned!

front garden removing plants

Our dog, Lagniappe (pronounced Lan – Yap), offered to help us dig! 😀 It is one of his specialties! After we dug up the plants we added some dirt to the beds to fill them out some! Then we tilled it to mix up the new/old dirt. My great Father in Law helped us with that! 😀

Phase 1 done! Here is a list of all that we did! It was a lot of work but the end result will be worth it!

cleaned up old bed
trimmed old plants
dug up old plants
relocated old plants
added dirt to beds (we did the left side of the house too!)
tilled the beds

front right garden before 20140302_175253 tilled 20140321_132143_Port Hudson Dr