Links for this week: The One Plate Project (How To Teach Your Kids To Share) @ A Deeper Story Those little things I miss @ Simple Homeschool The Best Mocha You’ll Ever Need @ Heavenly Homemakers How Pursuing Your Gifts Impacts Your Kids @ A Holy Experience Keeping journals: 5 ways your kids can start …
What Happened When I Quit Coffee
By Stacy Karen, Contributing Writer Coffee. The beverage that seems more like a king than a mere drink. Adored and revered by it’s faithful followers the world over. It’s the one thing that many of us refuse to start our days without. Plus, drinking coffee includes you in a worldwide club where members write about it, …
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Quick, Healthy Meals for Your Family
; By Leigh Ann Dutton, Contributing Writer It’s five o’clock. What’s for dinner? For many years, if I didn’t have a menu plan with printed off recipes, when five o’clock rolled around we’d resort to going out to eat or grab carry out. We had the delivery pizza guy on speed dial and knew which nights …
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Weekend Links
Hello and happy Saturday! A quick note from Stephanie: To all those who currently get each of our new posts by email, we want to let you know that in an effort to help you cut down on inbox clutter while still staying up to date with your favorite blogs, we’ve transitioned all of our …
3 Simple Ways to Reduce Pinterest Overwhelm
By Nina Nelson, Contributing Writer If you were to search my Pinterest boards, you’d see a lot of DIY recipes for healthy living. Homemade soap, salves, cleaners, beauty products – you name it, I’ve pinned it. But I’ll let you in on a little secret … I don’t make most of the recipes I pin. At one …
Ways to Use Clearance Produce
We originally published this post in June of 2012, but with an increase in food prices in recent years, the advice and tips that Erin offers here are still very useful! Written by Erin Odom, Contributing Writer Since this season is all about incorporating more veggies into our diets and eating from our pantries and freezers, I thought it …
Weekend Links
Links for this week: Dear Moms: Let’s Stop Judging Each Other and Start Seeing Each Other @ Lisa-Jo Baker Should Vaccines Be Mandatory @ Mommypotamus Rose-Scented Pistachio Honey Cake (grain-free) @ Nourishing Joy What Mama Said, What Mama Did: Five Ways My Mama Taught Me the Blessing of Healthy Friendships @ A Holy Experience Fatigue Is Not …
Take Charge of Your Health with The Whole30 Challenge
By Kelly Smith, Contributing Writer Did you resolve to eat healthier in the New Year, only to find yourself falling back into the same old eating patterns after trying to make healthy changes? I’ll be honest, for years I struggled to eat healthy, because frankly, I wasn’t sure what “eating healthy” really meant. I simply had no …
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3 Simple and Healthy At-Home Date Nights
By Hilary Bernstein, Contributing Writer After years of marriage, date nights have the potential to become a bit humdrum. Especially when a husband and wife are tired from the busyness of daily life – of if they’re spending most at-home hours as dad and mom – date nights may even be pushed aside. Speaking from experience, I know …
How I (Finally) Had A Natural Childbirth
By Jessica Smartt, Contributing Writer I just had my third baby, and I (finally) had a natural childbirth. Induced and with Pitocin, even. Virtual high-five, anyone?? This was not easy, but I had planned it for a long time. I had horrific experiences with my two prior births. There was the emotional disconnection and fallout of the …
Weekend Links
Links for this week: [Love Looks Like] 2:07 a.m. @ Sarah Bessey Maybe Variety isn’t the Spice of Life @ Be More With Less Easy Ham and Egg Breakfast Bowls – a Quick and Filling Breakfast To-Go! @ Heavenly Homemakers The Key to Finding a Peace that Passes All Understanding @ A Holy Experience I made …
Why I Quit Drinking So Much Water
; By Andrea Green, Contributing Writer It all started on Facebook. One day, as I was reading through my newsfeed, I came across a conversation about drinking 100 ounces of water every day. The conversation talked about all the benefits of drinking 100 ounces of water. Everyone in the conversation claimed better health, successful weight loss, …
Homemaker’s Friend Giveaway: Win 1 of 10 Daily Planners!
If getting organized was one of the goals you put on your resolution list for the new year, we’ve got a great giveaway for you today! The Homemaker’s Friend Daily Planner is a wonderful assistant for any homemaker. The weekly two-page spread is easy to use and its flexibility makes it a favorite planner for the …
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9 Simple Ingredients That Will Clean Your Entire House!
By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer If you had to guess off the top of your head, how many cleaning products would you say you have in your house right now? You probably have a couple in the kitchen, several in the bathroom, several more multipurpose cleaners for around the house, and a few specialized products …
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