Reading Time: 4 minutesThese homemade peanut butter cups are dairy-free, sugar-free, gluten free, and perfectly on plan for the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle…and they’re packed with protein! I love this healthy treat even better than Reese’s! When I was a child, I couldn’t get enough of my three favorite foods: strawberries, cheese, and peanut butter. While I enjoyed […]
Health5 Reasons Why I Love Netflix
Reading Time: 3 minutesSeveral years ago, my family ditched our cable TV for NETFLIX. Really? We couldn’t afford cable anyway, and Netflix allows us the opportunity to view lots of family-friendly shows without going in the hole financially. Check out 5 reasons why we love Netflix so much that we will never go back to cable! 1. Netflix […]
Home10+ Homemade, All-Natural Stain Removers–Including the BEST Stain Remover Ever!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week we’ve been talking about natural, homemade laundry care. After checking out some homemade laundry detergents and a list of 30+ ways to use white vinegar, today I’m giving you a list of 10+ homemade stain removers. And I’m also telling you about what I see as the absolute BEST, all-natural stain fighter (and […]
30+ Ways to Use White Vinegar
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhite vinegar is an amazing, non-toxic tool that should be in every natural homemaker’s arsenal. It’s natural, frugal and even edible! Any grocery store carries it, but you can also buy it in bulk on Amazon. And for all the things you’ll be using it for after you read this list, bulk might not be […]
5 Homemade Laundry Detergents: The Frugal, Non-Toxic Way to Clean Your Clothes!
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere are 5 unique homemade laundry detergent recipes—including both liquid and powder recipes and cloth-diaper safe! I’ve never made homemade laundry detergent. Oh, it’s been on my {too} long to-do list of things I eventually want to try my hand at making. But much like homemade toothpaste, I just haven’t gotten there yet. (It’s probably […]
Motherhood & FamilyLet’s Ditch Mommy Guilt and Embrace Mommy Grace
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor over 5 1/2 years now, I’ve been either pregnant or breastfeeding babies back-to-back. Sometimes I wake up and think: “Wow! How did I go from a working wife to a stay-at-home mom of three–three!–children under five years old?” It’s been a whirlwind–to say the least. I started this site two years ago with intentions […]
Rejoicing and Mourning with Mothers on Mother’s Day
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe should celebrate moms on Mother’s Day…yet also be sensitive to women who aren’t in that season of life. Let’s rejoice with those who rejoice, and mourn with those who mourn. I don’t think we need to pick and choose! Here’s what this kind of love can look like. It’s humbling to say, but as […]
6 Humbling Homemaker Weaknesses
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs a homemaker, I struggle with these 6 things almost every day. I think many moms can relate! Do you have any of these humbling homemaker weaknesses? If you’ve been reading my site any length of time then you know that one thing is for sure: I am not perfect. I don’t have it all […]
Clean Beauty5 Homemade Toothpaste Recipes
Reading Time: 3 minutesI won’t beat around the bush with this: I don’t make my own toothpaste. Now, homemade toothpaste is on the very long list of things I want to try making one day, but I haven’t made it there yet. I still buy mine. (And I’ll tell you why at the end of this post.) But […]
Resources to Prepare Your Child for School
Reading Time: 5 minutesLittle Girl will turn 5 in about 6 weeks. Therefore, I’ve been thinking a lot about the resources needed to prepare my child for school. As it stands right now, we have decided to “red-shirt” her (watch for a post on that early this summer!) and wait until fall 2014 to officially start kindergarten. My […]
How to Organize an eBook Library
Reading Time: 4 minutesEarlier, we talked about how to read an eBook even if you don’t have a Kindle or other eReader. In light of the Ultimate Bundle sale going on today, I thought it would be appropriate to give some tips on how to organize an eBook library. I am not naturally organized, so this, like everything, is […]
How to Read an eBook Even If You Don’t Have a Kindle
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you’ve hung around my site very long at all, it’s no surprise that I absolutely love eBooks. I started buying and reading them about two years ago, and I’ve never looked back. Although I’ve been a bookworm since, well, birth, in recent years my bookshelves have become so crammed that I’ve simply run out […]
Is Your Water Toxic?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Berkey Filter was one of the first things I reviewed when I started my blog in 2011. I had one wanted for for a while, and we finally were able to get one. I had to convince my husband it would be worth it, but 10 years later, our whole house loves it, and […]
My Worst Homemaking Mistake {and 5 Ways I’m Working On It}
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is quite humbling, but that’s kind of the theme of my entire site, right? I’ve been humbled, you’ve been humbled…and we’re all learning together. For a while now, I’ve wanted to share with you what I consider to be one of my worst–if not the worst mistakes I’ve made as a homemaker. Ready? I […]
You’re Half Blind {to my life}…So Let Me Open Your Eyes
Reading Time: 3 minutesYeah–that’s me–pretty make-up-less–except for the smudged mascara that I had a really hard time putting on! This past weekend, I spent my entire Saturday half blind. My family had spent Friday night in a hotel with my parents for a family reunion of sorts to celebrate my grandfather’s 90th birthday. I left my contact lens […]
