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Introducing My New Book: Real Food on a Real Budget

May 3, 2010

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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Three Winners

February 3, 2010

In the midst of staying up way too late tying up loose ends before heading off to Blissdom tomorrow, I have three winners to announce:
Winner of a signed copy of the book Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood:
Michelle- preshusnhissight@
And two winners of a Meals ePlanner, from ListPlanIt:
Jessica- spriteslp@
Julie- julesa5@
If you see your name [...]

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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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Celebrate with Joy: Epiphany and Reflections on Transforming our Christmas Celebrations

January 5, 2010

I found this year to be one of our most meaningful Christmas seasons so far. It has been such a blessing to begin implementing even a few new things into the way that we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Here are some of the things that we did this year:

Daily Advent devotions through the [...]

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Goals for the New Year

January 4, 2010

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There's something about the New Year that offers such a fresh start. It always feel to me like a perfect time to make some changes, try something new, or set some goals for myself.
I love that I'm not alone in this. Whether we like to call them "resolutions" or not, most of us [...]

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Celebrate with Joy: Week 3

December 17, 2009

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For this week's Celebrate with Joy post, I'm going to take a pause from giving more ideas or activities for adding to your Christmas celebration. Instead, I would like for you to be encouraged and inspired as you press on in learning to make these "holy day" celebrations more meaningful and alive for [...]

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Pro-Mom, Not Pro-Blogger

December 14, 2009

I'm not sure that I knew what I was getting myself into. It all seems so very long ago when I first began setting up Keeper of the Home over two years ago. I don't really remember what I thought blogging would be like... enjoyable, relatively simple, something I could do during the children's naps, [...]

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Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo… Which Book Titles Have to Go?

December 11, 2009

I'm always amazed at the reader feedback I get when I ask you all for help with something. Thanks for getting creative and offering so many wonderful book title suggestions! What would I do without you? (Well, I'd probably call my book something boring like "Good Frugal Food". :))
(And if you're wondering what book I'm [...]

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Celebrate with Joy: Week 2

December 10, 2009

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It's Week 2 of making this holiday season more meaningful using the book Celebrate with Joy!
How are your Advent activities going? We've been enjoying our special devotions (or "learning about Jesus' names", as my daughter says) so much. We've almost finished making our Names of Jesus garland, and it's going to be beautiful [...]

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Free Shipping on Health Homemaking!

December 7, 2009

If you've been thinking about purchasing a paperback copy of Healthy Homemaking: One Step at a Time either for yourself or as a Christmas gift, today is the day to do it! I just received a one-day-only coupon to pass on to you (from Lulu.com, the company the publishes/ships the book for us) that will [...]

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