April 2010

Video Blog: Making My Own Shampoo and Conditioner (Using the No ‘Poo Method)

April 30, 2010

One of the themes at Keeper of the Home this month has been making your own beauty supplies. Beth has showed us how to make our own soap, and Angela gave us a plethora of simple options for making beauty supplies like facial moisturizer, body scrub, even hairspray and more!
As for me, I'm breaking out [...]

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Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices

April 29, 2010
girl eating peach

Today I have the privilege of being featured at Hannah Keeley's site, with my guest post Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices. You can check out my large mugshot (seriously!) and read what I have to say about how we can encourage our children to grow up to be healthy [...]

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Real Food Encouragement: Whole Wheat Bread

April 28, 2010
Discouraged in the kitchen

By Sherrie Cook, Contributing Writer
Confession:  I am not so skilled in the kitchen.
Conflict:  I need to write a blog post about a real food kitchen for Keeper of the Home.
Solution:  Write about hope.  Hope for those of us who feel clueless and overwhelmed at the thought of making better choices for our families.  Hope that [...]

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Real Food Makeover: The Woody Family

April 27, 2010
117ps

This week's makeover is for the Woody Family. There is mom Stephanie, dad Josh and children Delaney (5), Dawson (3), & Finn (2).
How They Currently Eat:
This family particularly touched me with the email they sent me to be chosen as one of the makeover families. Here is an excerpt from it:
Our journey to being a [...]

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Cabbage Roll Casserole: A Tasty Way to Get Your Family to Eat More Cabbage

April 23, 2010
cooked-cabbage-casserole

Always trying to find new ways to get more nturient-dense foods into my family, I stumbled upon this idea a while back and it has proven to be a winner!
The original recipe came from a fundraiser cookbook put together by my Nana's Sons of Norway group. I've taken that recipe and given it a few [...]

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Celebrating Earth Day: A Christian Perspective on Stewardship of the Environment

April 22, 2010
tree against blue sky and clouds

Today I want to celebrate Earth Day by sharing just a bit about why I, as a Christian, care about the environment and choose to put time, money and effort towards practicing mindful stewardship of God's glorious creation.
Here are some of the main reasons that our family has made environmental stewardship a priority as we [...]

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Squeaky Clean Fun: A Soap Making Photo Tutorial

April 21, 2010
Finished, cut soap bars

By Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer
To start, I just want to say I am so excited that Stephanie is allowing me the opportunity to share with you one of my favorite hobbies--soap making.  I have been making bar soap for my family for almost a year now, and I have tried different methods and a variety of [...]

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Learning to Live With Less

April 20, 2010
strings attached hammock photo

In a little over two months, our family will be moving to a new abode.
This move is exciting for a number of reasons. The new house has more bedrooms and will allow us to have a girls bedroom and a boys bedroom (yes, we only have one boy so far, but we hope to have [...]

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Busy, Busy, Busy Around Here- What’s Going On at Keeper of the Home

April 19, 2010
quote about being busy

I wanted to take a moment to let you know about some of the important things that are happening around here right now:
1) If you haven't done it already, would you please un-subscribe and re-subscribe to my RSS feed? The old one is currently being redirected, which is why you are still getting it, but [...]

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Real Food Makeover- The Anderson Family, Pt 2

April 19, 2010
anderson-family-photo

This is a continuation of last week's makeover for the Anderson family.
This week I want to share a sample menu plan. It won't look quite as specific as the menu plan for the W family, because mom Andi is already a regular menu planner and has certain meals/themes that she uses each week, so instead [...]

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