August 2009

A Tale of Two Gardens: Part 2

August 31, 2009

By popular demand, I decided to run the second part of this post right away. The suggestions are so valuable, and having gardened myself for 3 years now, I can definitely attest to the wisdom in these tips. I know that I've been encouraged and reminded of areas where I could improve my own gardening [...]

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A Tale of Two Gardens

August 28, 2009

I'm excited to introduce this two-part guest post to you! Amber had so many wonderful things to say about her (and her family's) experience of gardening and such helpful suggestions that I decided to turn it into a series. I hope that you're as inspired as I was and encouraged in your own gardening efforts. [...]

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How to Nurture Generosity in Your Children

August 27, 2009

What a great topic! I love it, so I'll hand it straight over to Jamie without further ado...
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Guest Post by Jamie Martin of Steady Mom

Photo by Milena Mihaylova

One
Sunday afternoon our family of five headed out to visit a friend. As we
drove, my husband was telling the children about his job with Love146,
an [...]

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Adjusting to Life with 3 Little Ones

August 26, 2009

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Making Cooking Easier: Using Your Slow Cooker

August 25, 2009

I would agree that slow cookers can be a busy mama's best friend some days. I get a lot of use out of mine, especially in the winter when we enjoy a lot of hot, hearty stews, soups, chili, etc. One of my favorite sites for recipes is A Year of Slowcooking. Check it out, [...]

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Motherhood, Moses and the Beauty of Broken Vessels

August 24, 2009

**My sincere apologies for not having the bio and links up earlier for this post! I'm feeling a little a lot tired and scattered around here, and didn't realize I had actually set this to auto-post without having it ready to go. My bad. Make sure you go and visit Kelly's wonderful blog!**

Seeing as Kelly [...]

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Waldorf-Inspired Real Play

August 21, 2009

While we don't specifically use Waldorf methods in our home (simply because I've never studied about it myself), I think that there are a lot of similarities in our philosophy of how we would like our children to learn and play, especially as home educators. I've really enjoyed learning more about the Waldorf method from [...]

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Organization for the Disorganized

August 20, 2009

Today's guest post is by my real life friend, Melanie. When she asked me about writing this topic, I didn't completely get the concept, but I trust Mel and knew that it would be good. It is! I relate to this more than I thought I would, and the suggestions make so much sense! I [...]

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7 IndispensableThings

August 19, 2009

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Making Your Own Convenience Food Mixes

August 18, 2009

For those who are baby-stepping your way towards learning to make
more foods from scratch, rather than packages, here are some great
ideas for making that process easier in this guest post!

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Guest Post by Allyson

As a stay-at-home mama to our highly active 2 year-old daughter, Emahry, and our “coming into his own” and very mobile 9 month-old [...]

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