Healthy Living
Reading Time: 4 minutes When you want to lose weight or be healthier, finding the perfect diet plan can be daunting. Here’s what you need to know about fad diets. By Kristen Smith, Contributing Writer When does the urge strike for you? New Year’s Day? Late spring? Before your high school reunion? After having a baby? Whenever it happens, […]
Healthy HomeInstant Pot Sweet Potato Chili Recipe
Reading Time: 4 minutes Inside: Try this delicious sweet potato chili recipe in your instant pot or electric pressure cooker for a hearty meal that’s ready in just minutes! By Sarah Nichols, Contributing Writer There is something special about chili. Not only is chili extremely versatile, but it can be very frugal and filling. A simmering pot of hot […]
Healthy Family8 Chores Your Preschooler Can Do
Reading Time: 5 minutes Help your preschoolers work around the house with these 8 chores! Guest Post by Aileen Clark of Aileen Cooks Teaching preschoolers to help with chores is so important. I recently read an article about chores for kids “coming back.” The article suggested that kids these days don’t do chores, unlike the way most of us were […]
How Saying ‘Thank You’ Helps Build a Stronger Marriage Relationship
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wonder how you can build a stronger marriage relationship? Start with thanks. Guest Post by Leah Heffner of Life Around the Coffee Cup Ever wonder how to build a strong marriage relationship? I know some days, my marriage cup feels full and hot—like a good cup of coffee in the morning. I wake up to savor […]
Family Finances6 Practical Budgeting Tips from a Debt Free Mom
Reading Time: 5 minutes No matter how tough your finances seem right now, you can get back on track with these simple budgeting tips! By Shannon Brown, Contributing Writer Two-foot snow drifts. Twenty minutes to struggle into snow clothes. Twenty-two seconds later, I see my 3-year-old turn around through the lens of my phone camera and say, “Mom, I need […]
5 Ways to Update Your Kitchen for $100 or Less
Reading Time: 5 minutes Updating a kitchen can get expensive! Here are five ways to update your kitchen for $100 or less! By Lisa Burns, Contributing Writer If you ever watch Fixer Upper on HGTV, you know that the kitchen is usually one of the most expensive rooms to remodel in a home. Even though I have seen the show many […]
Healthy Homemade Chocolate Milk
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rich and creamy chocolate milk in only 2 minutes! Refined sugar free, gut friendly, and kid-approved! By Dena Norton, Contributing Writer Want a super easy homemade chocolate milk recipe you can actually feel good about giving your kids? Here you go! This one-step chocolate milk recipe has just 4 ingredients and whips up in minutes with […]
8 Tips to Spend Less Eating Out
Reading Time: 4 minutes With some planning, you can spend less eating out and still have fun family time. Image Credit By Danielle Tate, Contributing Writer Going out to eat is often a fun family activity. Yet the goal to spend less to eat out is one of the top budgeting issues I hear about as a budget coach. […]
5 Simple Ways to Save Money on Your Favorite Mom Time Activities
Reading Time: 5 minutes Save money on your favorite mom time activities with these 5 simple ways! Guest Post by Victoria of Snail Pace Transformations I think most moms know it is vital to their health to take a mom time out on a regular basis and do something just for them. It isn’t selfish; it is what refuels moms […]
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. My friend Katie at Kitchen Stewardship has developed a phenomenal cooking class for kids called Kids Cook Real Food! […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Best Days of Our Lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you ever stopped to think we might be in the best days of our lives? By Hilary Bernstein, Contributing Writer I’ve always been sentimental, in the count down the lasts at the end of a school year, remember monthly birthdays of a baby or celebrate all sorts of trivial anniversaries kind of way. But […]
How to Meal Plan When You Hate Meal Planning
Reading Time: 5 minutes Feed your family using these ways to meal plan when you hate meal planning! (Image credit) By Dena Norton, Contributing Writer We’ve all heard it before. Meal planning saves money. It cuts down on extra trips to the grocery store. It eliminates the dreaded 5:00 scramble to figure out what’s for dinner. Yada, yada… All those things […]
8 Ways to Get Organized Right Now!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Need to bring some order to your house? Here are 8 ways to get organized right now! By Danielle Tate, Contributing Writer I felt like we moved. I had boxes, bags, and bins of stuff sitting everywhere. Buying a new camper and selling our old one on the same day meant I needed to […]
