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10 Ingredients to Make from Scratch

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, I posted on 10 Ingredients to Make from Scratch over at Keeper of the Home. Here’s an excerpt: When I first started cooking from scratch, it didn’t seem too hard. I gathered my ingredients and followed the recipes. But then one day it hit me: I wasn’t buying processed, pre-packaged meals anymore, but I […]

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Making Working at Home Work for You–Part 2 of 2

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago I decided to step down from contributing to two amazing sites–Homemakers Challenge and Modern Alternative Mama. I still highly recommend these sites, but life was getting busier than it needed to be for a mother of two (almost three!) precious little girls, and I felt the Lord leading me to focus […]

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Repurposing Baby Food Jars

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s hard to believe this is the final post in our Starting Solids series! Be sure to go back and check out the complete series (listed below) if you missed a post! In the last post in this series, I wrote about 6 ways to use up baby food purees. Today, we’re looking at repurposing […]

A Recipe for Real Food

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Reading Time: 4 minutes    By Elsie, Contributing Writer     It’s been a year since I got real with food. These past twelve months or so I’ve tackled many new recipes, and, in the process, have learned that the real food journey is, itself, like following a recipe.  It’s not a very precise recipe, and there’s no specific […]

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OB or Midwife: Finding the Birth Provider that Works for You

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re expecting, you’ve probably wondered: who should oversee your prenatal care and deliver your baby? Here’s how to choose between an OB or midwife as your birth provider! If you’re expecting a baby (or hope to sometime in the future)–especially for the first time–your mind is probably spinning with questions. Should you exercise while pregnant? What’s […]

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Creative Gender Reveal Party Ideas

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Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, we found out the sex of baby #3! (Scroll to the end if you just can’t wait to know!) I know lots of people these days like to be surprised and wait until the birth, but that’s just not us. And we decided that this go around, we’d do something creative to reveal the […]

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Everyday Opportunities: “Mama” for a Day

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Reading Time: 3 minutesImage by ckforjc    His white-blond hair glistened in the sun and his sea-blue eyes danced when they saw me. The 2-year-old boy giggled as his grandmother pushed him in the swing. I smiled at them both, pushing my 1-year-old on the swing beside him. We hadn’t been to this park much, but it was one […]

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6 Creative Uses for Leftover Baby Food Purees

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Reading Time: 3 minutesInside: Do you have leftover baby food purees sitting around the house? Whether you used homemade or store-bought baby food, you’ll love these creative uses for leftover baby food purees!  Related: 5 Finger Foods for Baby Is your baby all finished with baby food purees? Wait–don’t throw out that baby food! Here are six ways […]

Easiest Chicken Tortilla Soup Ever

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes, life gets hectic, and you just *need* some convenience food. As I finished up my first trimester of pregnancy a few weeks ago, I’m coming out of one of those seasons. But convenience food doesn’t necessarily have to equal unhealthy food! The key to this quick and easy soup is pre-prep. If your salsa is […]