Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home

What I Would Feed my Family on a Monthly Budget of $250

January 23, 2012

I had way too much fun writing this post.
I hinted on Facebook last week that I was working on a post detailing what I would buy if I could only spend $250 a month for our family of 5 (we currently spend $450, although that does include some household goods/toiletries, which my $250 budget doesn't).
My [...]

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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom: How to Juggle It All, Part 2

January 16, 2012

Did you miss the first two posts in this series? Find them here and here. 
Let's continue on with the practical, shall we?
Making Work More Productive
Part of the balancing act is learning to work smarter, not harder. This includes developing the ability to see what doesn't need to be done, and not just learning to do [...]

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My New eBook- Plan It, Don’t Panic: Everything You Need to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan

January 12, 2012

Announcing my newest eBook... Plan It, Don't Panic: How to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan!

What if you could learn to meal plan in a way that helped you to eat better, while saving you money, time and stress?

After the huge success of the Plan It, Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge that I ran [...]

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Book Review: The Money Saving Mom’s Budget (5 Copies to Win!)

January 10, 2012

If you want to learn something, one of the best ways is to learn from someone who has actually done it.
Do you want to learn to get your budget under control, cut your expenses drastically, simplify your life, and live both frugally and generously? My dear friend, Crystal Paine, is just the person to ask. Her story speaks for [...]

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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom: How to Juggle It All, Part 1

January 9, 2012

As I shared last week, I think that working-at-home is an amazing and viable opportunity for many women who wish to (or need to) work but still want to remain at home with their children.
Today, I want to get really practical and start sharing some of the things you can do to really make it [...]

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Managing Life as a Work-at-Home Mom

January 5, 2012

As someone who has a firm conviction that being home with my children and keeping my home is the best thing that I could possibly do in this season of life, I never really considered any sort of career or business work once that first sweet baby arrived.
Becoming a work-at-home mom was not part of [...]

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The Most Popular Posts of 2011

January 2, 2012

I hope that you've all had a restful and memorable time with your family during the Christmas season! Our holidays were relatively uneventful, but still wonderful.
My husband and I took a couple days away the week before Christmas to do some dreaming and goal-setting for the coming year. Then we spent a quiet week preparing [...]

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Pumpkin Spice Pancakes: A Perfect Winter Breakfast

December 30, 2011

There is nothing like the sweet combination of pumpkin and spices for the perfect winter breakfast.
Not to mention the fact that pumpkin is a seasonal winter veggie extraordinaire, boasting large amounts of fiber, potassium, magnesium, vitamins C and E, and plenty of antioxidants in the form of carotenoids (which gives pumpkin its deep orange hue). [...]

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Too Many Holiday Sweets? Give Your Body a Sugar Break

December 28, 2011

Am I the only one who finds the holidays a struggle with all of the sugary temptation? I'm over at Simple Organic, talking about an important thing that we can do to help our bodies combat the sugar overload...
Holidays are a time for indulging. We stuff ourselves on turkey feasts, swear that we couldn’t eat [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 22, 2011

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end...
Isaiah 9:6,7
Wishing you all a very blessed Christmas, as we celebrate the Savior!
There [...]

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