Healthy Home
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last 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 […]
Archives for March 2012
Healthy YouChurch Nursery Workers Extend Grace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gluten is from the devil … at least with my child, I think it really may be. That was my Facebook status one afternoon last week. The morning had been rough, to say the least. It was Tuesday. The Sunday before had been the daddy-daughter dance at church. There were cupcakes. And who can tell […]
Family FinancesMaking Working at Home Work for You–Part 2 of 2
Reading Time: < 1 minute A 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 […]
Repurposing Baby Food Jars
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’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 […]
T-“Tapping” it to Better Health!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s post is neither a sponsored post nor an advertisement. (I’ve actually never had one of those!) But contributing writer, Mary, is very well-versed in the T-Tapp exercise program, and I asked her to write about it because, quite frankly, it intrigues me, and I wanted to learn more myself! I hope we can learn […]
A Recipe for Real Food
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 […]
OB or Midwife: Finding the Birth Provider that Works for You
Reading Time: 5 minutes If 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 […]
And Baby #3 is a… {Creative Ways to Announce Baby’s Gender}
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, 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 […]
Everyday Opportunities: “Mama” for a Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes Image 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 of […]
6 Ways to Use Up Baby Food Purees
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is your baby all done with purees? Wait–don’t throw out that baby food! Here are 6 ways to use up baby food purees once your baby has moved on to more solid food: 1. Offer it to a friend. I know of at least one of my readers who literally spends hours every week making baby […]
Easiest Chicken Tortilla Soup Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes, 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 […]
