January 2010

Getting Organized in the Garden: Seed Starting and Planting Schedule

January 29, 2010

One step to ensuring a really good gardening season is knowing in advance what needs to be done and when it needs to be done. This will help you to avoid planting things too late because you weren't ready or didn't have the right supplies on hand at the right time.
This year I found a [...]

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Real Food Recipe Roundup: January

January 28, 2010

It's time to share a few favorite recipes and recent finds with you once again! Here are some that we are either really enjoying these days, or that I'm dying to have again once we're finished with our grain/sugar/starch free diet (the Maker's Diet):
Addictive Sweet Potato Burritos
With the odd combination of sweet potato and black [...]

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Your Turn to Get Organized with a Meal ePlanner!

January 27, 2010

As requested, here are the closeups of some of the pages from my homemaking binder.
Believe me, if you're looking for someone's routines and schedules to emulate, mine probably aren't the right ones! Organizing is something I strive for, but not necessarily something I always achieve. And please always remember that when I share things like [...]

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Organization in the Garden: Evaluating What You Have and What You Need

January 26, 2010

January tends to find me just a little bit giddy. Throughout the fall and early winter, I am just pooped from gardening and preserving season. I don't really want to see another canning jar, or hardly even another fresh tomato, and going out to get the garden prepped for over the winter is the last [...]

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Steady Days: Book Review and Giveaway

January 25, 2010

"I am not a perfect mother. Often I struggle with impatience; sometimes I lack the enthusiasm I long for. I make many mistakes, just like my children. As they are maturing as children, I am maturing as a mother... We need to equip ourselves with practical tools that allow us to give our personal best [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: My Recipe Binder

January 22, 2010

We've talked about some ways to streamline our meal planning, as well as how to use lists of your favorite recipes for ease of planning and quick reference. Here is the last step of the recent meal planning/recipe overhaul that my own kitchen has been receiving lately:

My beloved recipe binder!
It doesn't get much simpler and [...]

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Forum Highlights: January

January 21, 2010

Oops, I skipped December! So now it is definitely high time that I let you know about some of the fantastic conversations that have been taking place and questions that are being asked and answered in the Keeper of the Home community forum!
For those unfamiliar with the forum or who aren't members yet, you can [...]

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Eating More Nutrient-Dense Foods (Yes, I Really Tried Fish Eggs)

January 20, 2010

It's difficult to read Weston A. Price's book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, without having a sudden urge to bolt to the store for some fish eggs and liver.
No, really. It is. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.
After spending more than a week devouring this fascinating book full of Dr. Price's nutritional research and investigations [...]

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Creating a Homemaking Binder

January 19, 2010

**We're just back from Seattle after what has been a crazy week and a half! My blog schedule for January is now a bit off and I need to reassess it, but I will continue to putter along on my organizational projects that I've begun. More recipe organizing, and yes, the ListPlanIt download lists and [...]

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Family Update

January 16, 2010

Thank you all for your kind words and your prayers! I put out a tweet on Thursday saying that my husband had been released from the hospital Wednesday evening, but there simply hasn't been time for a blog post until now and I'm sure many of you have been waiting for an update.
Ryan is doing [...]

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