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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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Updated! Spring Book Sale: Real Food and Healthy Homemaking eBooks 50% Off!

May 24, 2011

Celebrating the fact that it's spring, the sun is beginning to shine (and green things beginning to grow), and most of all that in 5 short days I will board a plane that will take me and my hubby to the Philippines for the adventure of a lifetime...
... how about a smokin' book sale?
Update: The [...]

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The Simplify Family Life Collection: $450 Worth of Ebooks for Only $47!

March 21, 2011

This week I'm pleased to be a part of a fantastic group of bloggers and authors, including my books in the Simplify Family Life collection ebook sale. Corey from Simple Marriage and Mandi from Life...Your Way have brought together some of the top authors in the family life space with 30 ebooks covering a variety of [...]

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The Thoughtful Parent’s Guide to Thinking Through Vaccinations: Pro-Vaccine and Cautionary Resources

March 9, 2011

Guest Post Written by Christina
Over the past two weeks, we've been approaching the subject of childhood immunizations, trying to come to the issue logically and methodically in order to make the best decisions for our children:
The Thoughtful Parent's Guide to Thinking Through Vaccinations (part 1)
10 Questions to Ask (part 2)
Many of you have asked for [...]

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Simple Food {for winter} : Nourishing, Seasonal Recipes

January 12, 2011

The idea of seasonal eating is coming back into vogue, as notions of local food and "100 mile" eating spread. A small portion of the general population is beginning to realize that out-of-season foods like fresh lettuce from California, avocados and tomatoes from Mexico, or watermelons from Ecuador in January (for goodness sake, seriously people?) just [...]

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Preparing My Heart for Christmas

November 29, 2010

It's been a hard year.
As I begin to look back and reflect upon 2010, and anticipate celebrating Christmas this year, my heart is a bit heavy. It feels as though this year has been one of loss, struggle and discouragement.
We've lost family and friends to cancer, and heard of more diagnoses just recently. Walked through [...]

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Book Sale Has Been Extended!

November 1, 2010

Due to a few technical "bumps" we had at the beginning of the sale and the fact that the response has been so absolutely tremendous, we've decided to extend the sale until this Friday!
Some of the coupon codes for the other eBooks will be ending this week, but I know that most of them are [...]

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3 Year Blogiversary: A Chance to Share the Love (Big Book Sale!)

October 28, 2010

3 years ago last week, Keeper of the Home went from being a nifty idea in my mind, to being an actual blog that would become far more significant in my life than I could have imagined.
I think it's important that you know that blogs tend to be just as formational and impactful for the [...]

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Real Food on a Real Budget: Using Cash

May 4, 2010
getting cash from a machine

This week I will be running some excerpts from my new book, Real Food on a Real Budget: How to Eat Healthy for Less. They will be short selections from a few different chapters, just to give you an idea of some of the contents.
Using  Cash
Taken from Chapter 1: Working With a Budget
Once  you  have [...]

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Introducing My New Book: Real Food on a Real Budget

May 3, 2010
good frugal food book cover2(2)

I am so excited to introduce my newest book to you!
Real Food on a Real Budget has been a bit like having two babies in one year... first, we welcomed Johanna into our family this August. Within a week of her birth, while being told "sit down, rest, stop getting up!" by my loving hubby [...]

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