Links for this week: A Boy & His Nanny @ Shaun Groves It’s Not Okay to Yell at Your Kids @ Life Your Way Lavender Limeade Recipe @ Heavy On Wholesome Homegrown Potato Salad (and a reality check) @ Nourishing Days A Child’s Garden @ GNOWFGLINS Is Buying “Cheap” Always Bad? @ Modern Alternative Mama …
30 Sensational Summer Salad Recipes
By Diana, Contributing Writer Summer is officially here! During this season, my family eats lighter meals which includes an abundance of salads made with the season’s freshest fruits and vegetables from the farmers market or my own backyard. Often, we get stuck and salads become green lettuces with tomatoes, cucumbers, and cheese. Really, salads can be …
Benefits of Line Drying
By Contributing Writer, Stacy Myers When we moved into this house, we were tickled pink to find that it came with a clothesline. Having lived in a townhouse in town for 8 years, I was eager to have yard space where I could do things like line-dry and raise chickens. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, livin’ the country life …
In a Rut? Take the Kids For a Morning Nature Walk!
Guest Post by Jessica of Smartter Each Day Recently, I lamented to my mom how stressful our mornings had been. We’d finish breakfast, and somehow that would cue the grumpiness and bored whining. When my mom suggested a morning nature walk, I was doubtful that would solve all our problems. But of course, moms usually …
How to Begin and Maintain a Consistent Exercise Routine
By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer At the beginning of this year, I signed up to run a half marathon on June 1 with my sister. I was six months post-partum after my third baby, still at least 20+ lbs above my pre-pregnancy goal weight, and besides a brief stint with the Insanity DVD program, I …
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Weekend Links
Links for this week: Hitting the bottom and crawling out @ A Delightful Home You can do something just for you @ Simple Mom How Much is Too Much? @ Kitchen Stewardship Homemade Plum Ice Pops @ good (cheap) eats 5 Ways to Save By Just Being You @ Money Saving Mom I may not …
Three Attitude Adjustments During Pregnancy
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; By Natalie, Contributing Writer Pregnancy is such a mixed bag, don’t you think? On the one hand you have the miracle of LIFE filling your body. On the other hand you also get the garden variety of emotions and physical stresses that come with the complete …
Unhealthy Pantry Staples Remade
Written by Rachel, Contributing Writer Back in the days before most of us were even born, when our mothers or grandmothers were girls growing up, pantries were stocked very differently than in today’s world. Here’s a picture of a pantry from the 1940s: image credit Today, most pantries are stocked with stuff that is not even …
How to Cook Perfect, Fluffy Quinoa
By Mindy, Contributing Writer I posted a recipe for quinoa pancakes last month here at Keeper of the Home that called for three cups of cooked quinoa as one of the ingredients. Some readers asked how to cook quinoa, so today I wanted to share with you my tried-and true-method for how to cook perfect, …
Weekend Links {and Giveaway Winners}
Winners from Spring Giveaway Week: MightyNest The winner of the MightyNest Picnic Gear Pack is Andrea Bittner ([email protected])! Plan To Eat The winners of the two, year-long subscriptions to Plan To Eat are Charlotte Benfield ([email protected]) and Cecilia ([email protected])! Third Day Naturals The winner of the bundle of products from Third Day Naturals is Maureen Benson ([email protected])! Congratulations to all …
How to Make Healthy Ice Pops & Frozen Treats
By Kelly, Contributing Writer Growing up, there were few things more exciting during summer than hearing that little ditty playing that meant only one thing … the Ice Cream Man is coming! Soon he’d be rounding the corner of our street, and so my little brother and I would make a mad dash inside the …
How I learned to cook whole fish, Sicilian style (and how you can, too)
This week, I was over at Simple Bites, discussing the open-air markets, which I love, and how I braved the fresh fish markets here in Italy. I also shared a recipe detailing how to cook whole fish, Sicilian style, which I learned to do while here. I’ve arrived in the land of open-air markets, and …
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Gardening Tips for Beginners: Resources to Help You Dive Into Gardening With Courage!
By Beth Ricci, Contributing Writer I am not a gardener. I feel that in order to gain that title, one must successfully keep a plant alive for more than a month. Ahem. It’s, uh, on my bucket list… If grocery stores all went away I’d probably starve to death. I am NOT a gardener. I …
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Fun, Frugal Outdoor Summer Activities
By Kate Tietje, Contributing Writer One of the aspects we enjoy most about the summer is the warm weather. As soon as the sun starts peaking out and tendrils of warmth drift through the air, we are ready to go outside! We’re a bit past that now, seeing that it’s the middle of June. We’ve …
35 Resources for the Naturally Minded Mom
Have you ever wished that motherhood came with a manual? I have. Though I have slowly grown in my mothering know-how and ability over the years, and have come to really love being a mom, it hasn’t always been an easy road. I had no clue what I was doing when I got to the …
Weekend Links
A potted lime tree I spotted on a walk in our Arles, France neighborhood. Links I loved this week: Blessings for Our Enemies @ (in)courage What I’m reading this summer @ Simple Mom Chocolate Caramel Marshmallow Bars @ Food Renegade Homemade Honey-Sweetened Lemonade @ Red and Honey How to feel at home in your house …
How to Make an Herbal Wreath
Written by Stacy Karen, Contributing Writer My mother-in-law is very talented when it comes to arranging flowers and making wreaths. I’ve admired her skills for years, but never ventured into wreath-making myself because I thought it was too difficult or time consuming. Recently, I asked my mother-in-law to help me make an herbal wreath and …
Spring Giveaway Week: MightyNest Picnic Gear Pack (with Review!)
By Beth Ricci, Contributing Writer What’s summer without a picnic or two or twenty? Um, nothing, that’s what. OK, maybe that’s a bit extreme, but isn’t it true that two of the most universally loved human experiences are eating and enjoying the great outdoors? Put the two of them together and you’ve got sheer bliss, …
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Spring Giveaway Week: 2 Year-Long Subscriptions to Plan to Eat!
By Stacy Karen, Contributing Writer In this digital age it is easy to find a lot of great recipes online. Perhaps you pin recipes to Pinterest, bookmark them, or save them to your computer. Whatever you do, there are still the extra steps of menu planning and grocery list making to deal with. Plan to …
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Spring Giveaway Week: 4-Week Course on Blogging for Income (a freebie for ALL my readers!)
When I first began blogging over 5 1/2 years ago, I didn’t have the faintest clue what I was doing. What started as a hobby soon grew into a small income-earning venture, and then eventually into a part-time business that I run from home, which contributes greatly to our family’s income. While blogging certainly isn’t …
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Spring Giveaway Week: Natural Skincare Bundle From Third Day Naturals (With Review!)
By Stacy Myers, Contributing Writer I’m not a girly-girl. Never have been. But let me tell you something…I like smelling pretty. Maybe that comes from years of smelling like spit-up, pee-pee, or “oh-my-goodness-when-did-I-last-have-a-bath?” Something about taking a bath with smell-good stuff and then rubbing some on my body just makes me feel better. Even if …
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Forget the Bleach: How to Use the Sun to Whiten Your Whites
As we move into our fifth month of traveling around the world, one of the parts of my routine that has been simplified due to necessity is the laundry… I’m lucky to even have a regular washing machine to use before hanging the clothes to dry (and the rest of the time, I’m hand washing …
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Weekend Links
My darling little goofballs, playing around at the Colosseum in Rome. Note the all-important Batman shirt, a birthday present for our little-turned-big boy who celebrated his 6th birthday in the “eternal city”. Links I loved this week: Should Christians Care About Local Agriculture? @ Modern Alternative Mama Foraging Outdoors with Children and a Recipe: Garlic …