Contributing Writers
I am joined by some amazing women, who share regularly as contributing writers and an important part of the Keeper of the Home team!
Take a moment to get to know these ladies a little bit, visit their own websites, and look forward to their posts every Tuesday and Friday!
Beth Corcoran
Hi everyone! My name is Beth. I’ve been married to my wonderful husband, Curtis, for almost 6 years, and together we have 4 children that have joined our family through adoption. We are also in the process of becoming foster parents, and we believe that God has called our family to make a difference in the world of fostering and adopting. I reside in the heart of Oklahoma where I homeschool my kids—ages 7,6,5 and 2 ½. A few years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS, and in my journey to resolve those issues naturally, I discovered the whole world of natural living, as well as the Keeper of the Home blog. I still have a lot of areas to work on, but learning to live a simpler, more natural life has really made a huge difference, and it has prompted me to look into how I can be a better steward of all areas of life. During my rare free time, I love to learn about theology and history, and I enjoy all kinds of crafts—especially quilting, knitting, crocheting, and digital scrapbooking. I blog as time allows at stewardshipnotconvenience.blogspot.com.
Brandy Ferguson
Brandy is a wife of 15 years and a homeschooling mom of seven boys. She spends most of her time teaching, cooking and managing a busy, happy home. She also enjoys writing and encouraging mothers at her blog where she also shares household tips, homeschooling resources and recipes at TheMarathonMom.com
Courtney Dunkin
Courtney is the wife to her best friend and the mother of five children, with their sixth little blessing due to arrive in the spring of 2012. She spends her days raising her little ones while homeschooling and managing the home. She loves order and routine (and might be a little obsessed with making schedules and lists), but often reminds herself to capture and embrace all those simple, small moments the Lord gives her to impress upon her children’s hearts. Every day brings new joys and new lessons to be learned, for her children and herself! Only through constant prayer can she find the strength to complete what the Lord puts before her each day and only through the Holy Spirit can she embrace contentment in the joys and the challenges of motherhood.
Courtney is passionate about natural and simple living. She believes in taking the time to nurture her family with nourishing food and healing through nature, knowing that God is the giver of life and that he has supplied us with ample resources for health and healing. She blogs at Simply Nurtured, where she shares her thoughts on raising a healthy family, with the belief that the foundation for a healthy life begins in the womb and in the early years. She also owns the Simply Nurtured Shop, where she sells natural products for mom and baby.
Erin Odom
Erin is a believer in Jesus Christ and stay-at-home wife and mom of two little redheaded girls. She writes for several print and online publications, including Carolina Weekly newspaper group and Modern Alternative Mama. She and her husband met while serving as missionaries to Costa Rica in 2003-2004. Before becoming a mom, she worked for a Latino advocacy agency in Memphis, TN and taught ESL in Mississippi. Her family also spent a semester working with immigrants in Vancouver, BC. She enjoys mission work, speaking her second language--Spanish, breastfeeding, cloth diapering and researching how to live a healthier lifestyle. She blogs about natural living and homemaking at The Humbled Homemaker.
Kate Tietje
Kate is a wife to Ben, her God-given soul mate, and mother to two children, Bekah, 2.5 and Daniel, 1. As a family, they love Jesus and are involved in their local church, including a small group. Right now Ben is working a “real” job, but someday they dream of owning a farm together and working completely from home. For now this dream is still a bit far off! This fall, Kate will begin homeschooling Bekah, taking mostly an “unschooling” approach.
In October, 2009, Kate began Modern Alternative Mama because she had so many things she needed to say and she needed to share them with the world! Plus the people around her were a little tired of listening sometimes. :) The dream was to create a site where Kate could talk about being a rather “alternative” mother in a very modern world, one in which she frequently does not fit. This opened up the blog to discuss natural parenting, real food, green living, religion, and many other topics that are important to Kate. Over the last several months, Kate has built a decent following; over 200 people currently subscribe to Modern Alternative Mama and Kate hopes to continue to build upon that!
Kate has also guest posted for a number of different blogs, including Kitchen Stewardship, Hartke is Online, Raising Arrows, Naturally Knocked Up, and Kelly the Kitchen Kop. An article she wrote recently on her family’s experience with raw milk (originally posted at Hartke is Online) is being published in the Fall 2010 edition of Wise Traditions.
When not blogging, Kate is busy being a mother. She leads a local mom’s group and is also active in a church playgroup. She also enjoys playing with her children, reading, sewing, crafting, and cooking. Locally, she reaches out to people who are just beginning the “natural” lifestyle, helping them to find farmer’s markets, reasonable meal plans and other resources. She loves her life even if it keeps her busy 24/7!
Mindy
Mindy blogs at The Purposed Heart to encourage other women in their faith, their kitchens, their homes, and their hearts.
She believes in eating real, whole food in the way that God intended for it to be enjoyed. Her desire is to live a healthy, God honoring, purposeful life.
Natalie Klejwa
Natalie is wife to Joe and home educating mama to 8. She is the founder of Visionary Womanhood Gatherings in the Twin Cities, MN area, the administrator of the Visionary Womanhood blog, and author of Visionary Womanhood Gatherings, A Family Strengthening Mentorship Tool for Women and Maidens.
Rachel Marie
Rachel is a mother to 2 preschoolers and a wife to a chiropractor. Her passions are faith, family and health. She supports her husband in helping to change the way people look at their health and uses her blog as a tool to do that. You can find her writing about her family adventures and inspiring you to make healthier choices for your family and more at day2day joys or on Facebook.
Stacy Karen
Stacy believes the home is an important place where hearts are shaped for eternity. She strives to create a healthy, happy home through natural living, real food eating, moment cherishing, and God following.
Stacy is wife to a truth-seeking preacher and grateful mother of three funny kids. She enjoys homeschooling, but often struggles with her own distractible nature, resisting the urge to toss lessons aside and cook all day!
Mildly obsessed with making things from scratch, Stacy thoroughly enjoys creating anything from chalk to chocolate torte. Concocting herbal preparations and homemade body products is a favorite pastime.
Stacy shares tips for finding peace and joy at home on her blog, Delighting in the Days.
Stacy Taggart
Being a mother has been much more difficult for Stacey than she thought it would be, yet she has found it to be a much more rewarding and joyful experience than she ever could have imagined. She is the mother of two active and energetic boys, ages 3 years and 7 months, who help keep life extraordinary, if not a little crazy! Her boys, including her husband, are her life and her family is her first priority. She does her best to find balance as she juggles the demands of motherhood and the requirements of home management, all while enjoying the beautiful life God has given her!
Stacey's faith in God and her knowledge of the divine role of motherhood, helps her feel the value and importance of being a mother. This gives her strength when things are discouraging and difficult and helps her more fully appreciate the joy and laughter of family life.
Stacey blogs at A GOOD and SIMPLE Life where she and her husband chronicle their efforts to live more simply, frugally and self-sufficiently in order to create a more meaningful, purposeful life for their family. Recent trials have intensified the importance of priorities to Stacey and her husband as they have found joy in living more simply. They are choosing to sacrifice many material things of lesser value so they will have the time and means for things of more value, especially quality time together as a family.
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I have been a homemaking mama and wife and have a daughter who was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder as a young child. She is a 25 year old young woman who loves God and desires encouragement and spiritual growth, but is single and wants to care for herself and home from this perspective, and has searched for good blogs that meet these desires and needs but hasn’t found any. Do any of you ladies have ideas and direction? Thank you. May you be blessed as you walk.