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Archives for August 2011

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Fresh Hope for Families and Soap Winners!

August 31, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Two exciting things to announce today… Clean water for families The first is that through the 48 hour book sale, we raised almost $220 which is going directly to Compassion International’s Water of Life initiative. What that means is that not 1 or 2, but 4 families will be receiving a unique water filter that …

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Category: Homemaking

Project-Based Homeschooling

Project-Based Homeschooling

August 30, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Written by Kate Tietje, Contributing Writer This year is going to be our first year homeschooling. I’m excited! My first is finally 3.5 years old, meaning she’s old enough for “preschool” now. She also has a strong interest in learning, and I can’t wait to get started with her in a couple weeks. We’ve chosen …

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Category: Homemaking

So, Mornings... How Are They Going for You?

So, Mornings… How Are They Going for You?

August 29, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Have you met my friend, Kat? Allow me to introduce you… She makes a ball cap look great. She loves Tex-Mex food (me, too- except I live in Canada. Drat.) She actually has a chin-up bar in one of the doorways in her home, and every time she walks by, she does a chin-up. She …

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Category: Family Life, Homemaking

Looking Through a Child's Eyes 2

Dirty Water, Clean Water

August 27, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Updated: Thanks to my amazing readers rising to the challenge, we will be providing 4 families with clean, pure drinking water for a LIFETIME! How’s that for exciting? 🙂 Water. So critical, so taken for granted. We may talk about staying hydrated enough. Make sure that we are using a quality water filtration system to …

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Category: Family Life

A Heart For Adoption

August 26, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Written by Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer Adoption is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. And for some time now, I’ve been itching to share my story and my unique family with you. Today I get the chance! I have been blessed to be part of an amazing and unique body …

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Category: Family Life

Ever Get Tired of Natural Living?

Ever Get Tired of Natural Living?

August 24, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Do you ever get tired of it all? Have you read an article on nutrition or being green, and found that your eyes began to glaze over as you thought, blah, blah, blah? Does the garbage sometimes seem like a more convenient option than the compost? Do you just want to break down and buy …

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Category: Homemaking, Natural Living

Natural Shampoo and Body Bars from Apple Valley Natural Soap (Plus a Giveaway!)

Natural Shampoo and Body Bars from Apple Valley Natural Soap

August 22, 2011     Keeper of the Home

I have to let you know, I’m a bit of a natural soap junkie. Underneath my bathroom cupboard are baskets, literally full of various kinds of handmade soaps– ones with oatmeal for scrubbing, with essential oils, with herbs, for oily skin, for sensitive skin, shampoo bars, regular body bars, soap that cleans your bathroom all …

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Category: Natural Living

8 Unique Recipes With Zucchini

8 Unique Recipes With Zucchini

August 19, 2011     Keeper of the Home

About this time of year, people are wondering what to do with all the zucchini that just keeps coming from gardens. Zucchini is nutritious – a great source of fiber, antioxidants, Vitamin C and many B vitamins – and it’s delicious too! But we seem to have a love/hate relationship with zucchini. It’s fun when …

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Category: Real Food, Recipes

Herbs I Have and What I Do With Them

Herbs I Have and What I Do With Them

August 18, 2011     Keeper of the Home

This post was originally published on August 18, 2011. Although our traveling “medicine” kit is big enough to sink a ship and full of things like herbal tinctures, essential oils, clay, arnica cream, and all sorts of other goodies, I am sorely missing my drawer full of dried herbs back home. Using them for homemade …

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Category: Natural Living, Natural Remedies, Real Food

Fresh Tomato Salad Recipe

Simple and Fresh Tomato Salad

August 16, 2011     Keeper of the Home

To make a superior tomato salad that is full of flavor, buy locally grown tomatoes that are of different shapes, sizes, and colors. This will make the salad visually interesting as well as delicious! The following tomato salad is a perfect side dish. Alternately, serve as an dinner entree or light lunch with a few …

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Category: Real Food, Recipes

Why Every Moment Matters When You're a Mom (and Giveaway Winners!)

Why Every Moment Matters When You’re a Mom (and Giveaway Winners!)

August 13, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Find me this week over at Raising Homemakers, where I share how a difficult loss this summer has encouraged me not to waste a moment of the time that I have as a mother. Winners of My Buttered Life eBook We’ve got some winners for the popular ebook giveaway last week. My Buttered Life is …

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Category: Homemaking

Preserving the Harvest: Sweet Fruit Chutney

Preserving the Harvest: Sweet Fruit Chutney

August 12, 2011     Keeper of the Home

by Meg Dickey, Contributing Writer Summer, and the fruit it brings, has a way of overwhelming many of us. If you’ve got a pile of peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots or any other kind of fruit sitting in the middle of your table, you need to figure out a way to deal with it! One of …

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Category: Real Food, Recipes

Surviving Early Pregnancy With a Houseful of Littles

Surviving Early Pregnancy With a Houseful of Littles

August 11, 2011     Keeper of the Home

I remember when I was pregnant with my first. I was working full time as an ESL teacher, but during my time off? I could put my feet up, take a nap when I was tired, make whatever food I was craving (or not make food at all if my stomach was off), go for …

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Category: Family Life

Eliza Spurgeon: Legacy of An Apt and Godly Helper

Eliza Spurgeon: Legacy of An Apt and Godly Helper

August 9, 2011     Keeper of the Home

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer A womanly legacy worthy of passing on A while back I began compiling a collection of mini-biographies of Christian women, single, married and widowed, whose lives might inspire us to live godly in this present age as that relates to all of the divinely created helper functions devout women …

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Category: Family Life

Even Real Food Bloggers Get the Blues (and How to Keep Nutrition Up in Busy, Stressful Seasons) 1

Even Real Food Bloggers Get the Blues (and How to Keep Nutrition Up in Busy, Stressful Seasons)

August 8, 2011     Keeper of the Home

**I shared our exciting news the other day, which entirely relates to the re-posting of this post from almost exactly one year ago. Morning sickness, fatigue and some other challenging circumstances have made it a real struggle to put decent food on the table (or desire to eat it, for that matter) these past two …

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Category: Family Life, Natural Living, Real Food

Four Steps to a More Peaceful Home

Four Steps to a More Peaceful Home

August 5, 2011     Keeper of the Home

A peaceful home is something many of us long for. A place where relationships are healthy and spirits are happy, where we can rest our weary bones and just be ourselves. There’s no denying that creating a peaceful home takes work. The road to peace is not smooth or easy, but it’s worthy! I have …

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Category: Family Life, Homemaking

Affording Cloth Diapers on a Low Income

August 4, 2011     Keeper of the Home

After the recent series on cloth diapers, you may finally be thinking: Hey, I CAN do this! She makes cloth diapering seem so EASY! But have the upfront costs of modern cloth diapers frustrated you? I’ve been there. And I found a solution. My Story It wasn’t long after the birth of my second daughter …

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Category: Homemaking

All Our Little Ducks in a Row (And Baby Makes 6)

All Our Little Ducks in a Row (And Baby Makes 6)

August 2, 2011     Keeper of the Home

You know you must be tired when you’re a writer and you have exciting news and the only way that you can think of announcing it is to simply blurt it out… We’re expecting baby #4! Upon returning home from our trip to the Philippines with Compassion International (literally, the day after we got home), …

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Category: Family Life

My Buttered Life Ebook: 5 Summer Skin Recipes and a Giveaway!

My Buttered Life Ebook: 5 Summer Skin Recipes and a Giveaway!

August 1, 2011     Keeper of the Home

By reading the ingredient list on most skincare products, you would think that it’s necessary to have a degree in chemistry and your own in-home lab if you ever wanted to create your own. Sunscreen in particular seems daunting to me and I wouldn’t have the faintest idea where to begin if I wanted to …

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Category: Homemaking

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