Reading Time: 15 minutes Want to make a full-time income blogging? It’s completely possible, and I’ll show you how to do it in this post! I originally published this post in 2014. I updated it in June 2017. When I wrote the post on how I make an income from home, I received many requests for a more detailed […]
Archives for October 2016
Survive the Baby Years with 5 Simple Tips: You Can Make It, Mama!
Reading Time: 5 minutes It is possible to survive the baby years! These five tips on how to survive the baby years will get you started. You can do this, Mama! It’s been 8 years, but I remember it like it was yesterday. My firstborn was three weeks old, and my mom had flown out to Memphis from North Carolina […]
Teach Kids To Make Their Own Meals: Your Kids Can Cook!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bringing kids into the kitchen provides opportunities for them to learn life skills and character traits that will serve them for many years to come. Here are 10 steps to teach kids to make their own meals. If you want to teach your kids to cook, I highly recommend checking out Kids Cook Real Food (the curriculum […]
Easy Recipes for Kids to Make: Teach Kids to Cook with These 20 Easy Meals!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Get your kids busy in the kitchen with these 20 easy recipes for kids. And these are great tips for teaching kids to cook, too! My friend Katie at Kitchen Stewardship has developed a phenomenal cooking class for kids called Kids Cook Real Food! She opens enrollment every few months, and she also offers a […]
Home Safety Inspection: Fire & More
Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever conducted a home safety inspection in your house? Keep these steps in mind to protect against fire and carbon monoxide poisoning! A few months ago, we did a full home safety inspection in our house, after several neighbors went through some very scary situations in their homes! This month is Fire Safety Awareness […]
Should Homemakers Hire Help?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Have you ever wondered if homemakers should hire help? Is it okay for homemakers to hire help? I’ve wrestled with this question so many times. After all, isn’t it a homemaker’s responsibility to provide childcare, cook, and clean? Whether you’re a working mom, work-at-home mom, or a stay-at-home mom, you’re also in charge of keeping your […]
The Yummiest Way to Eat More Veggies
Reading Time: 4 minutes Garden Lites® have become my new favorite convenience food. And it they might just be the yummiest way to eat more veggies. Right now I’m eating an incredibly delicious blueberry muffin. OK, I admit that it’s my second one tonight. I couldn’t eat just one. But I feel no guilt in these muffins. Not only do […]
3 Easy Salad Meals to Bless a Friend
Reading Time: 3 minutes The next time you want to bless a friend with a meal, make salad meals! When a friend has a baby or someone in your community suffers a hardship or loss, it’s nice to be able to provide a meal to that family, right? It’s a tangible way to bless them, and it helps build […]
3 Reasons Your Children Don’t Listen to You
Reading Time: 4 minutes Children don’t listen to you? Here are three possible reasons why (and how to fix it!) Guest post by Brittany of Equipping Godly Women Wouldn’t it be great if our children always listened to us the first time? And cheerfully to boot? While cheerful obedience every. single. time. may be a little much to ask […]
Are We Going to the Right People For Advice?
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a lot of advice out there! For every piece of advice, there is another piece that contradicts it. So, are you going to the right people for advice? I first started reading blogs as a brand new mom. I only read two or three for the first few years of motherhood, and I […]