Busy School Night Schedules and Sanity

As summer comes to a close and public school systems are back in school, school nights have become busier than ever. From football to scouting to church youth group, our afternoons are spent rushing from home to an event and back again three hours later for a hurried dinner, bath and bedtime. Our first week back in this hectic...

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Teaching Children to Cook (Part II)

This is the second in a series of posts about cooking with children. Read the first post here. Meal Planning We all want our families to eat healthy. This can be hard when we have picky eaters that only like noodles, bread, and shredded wheat cereal. Not very well rounded, right? Teaching my children to cook also...

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Homeschool Is Messy

My husband leaves for work early in the morning, but the rest of us are here all day, every day. Before breakfast, toys are dragged into the living room. I sling bowls onto the table and notice the library basket being emptied. The rug is covered with books as I pull out the cereal. Breakfast explodes all over the table and...

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Give Away at the Forum: The Coupon Binder- CLOSED

If you have not heard, I am gearing up for a coupon class at my church. I am so excited about doing this! One of the topics I am going to talk about is organization. To get the full potential of savings, I believe you need to be organized. There is many ways to do this and there are no right or wrong ways of organizing it...

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Housekeeping Tips and Efficiency Ideas

Home Management:  How to Turn Up Your Efficiency Level What do people need the most of besides money? Time. While we’re not all earning the same amount of money, everyone is given an equal amount of time. It’s the great equalizer–no respecter of persons. Like money, you can either waste it or save it. In caring for a...

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Party Tithe

The Bible on Stewardship “I don’t care if ‘the cattle on a thousand hills’ are the Lord’s (Psalm 50:10), because He isn’t giving them to me.” “I need to be good steward of what I have or else it will fly away (Proverbs 6:10-11). That’s stewardship.” “I wish I...

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The Modern Mom: What We’re Missing Out On

I’ve started with the annual start of school fever. I’m finished buying curriculum, minus a book or two. Planning gives me the same energy that shopping gives some women. Even the kids got excited this year about getting new planners. I guess I can say that this was one idea for ordering our day that was tremendously...

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Starting Somewhere: Homesteading with Suzanne

Confessions of a Beginning Homesteader Although my daddy grew a garden every year and my mama canned at the end of each summer I was a mall-goin’, car cruisin’ kind of girl. When I got married all I brought to the table was my ability to make macaroni without having to look at the directions on the side of the...

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Bringing Our Wallets Under Gods Control

It’s time for Chapter 9 in our book study of Sheila Wray Gregoire’s, “To Love, Honor and Vacuum…” Bringing Your Wallet Under God’s Control 15 years ago I likely would have skipped over this chapter and insisted that I handled money just fine. That was then. This is now. When I married him, I...

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Charlotte Mason for Moms

Atmosphere affects our attitude…we become what we think about. If you’ve ever read anything about Charlotte Mason, chances are you have heard this quote. Perhaps you have even tried to implement these elements into your own educational experience. Maybe you have created an atmosphere of learning for your children,...

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