Homemaking

I Wasn’t Trained to Be a Mom (But I Can Still Love It)

June 23, 2011

Sometimes I end up rummaging through past posts for one reason or another, and a post that I have written (and forgotten about) will jump out at me and I am freshly inspired by whatever it was that spurred me on to write the post in the first place.
The quote below is from just such [...]

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Getting Back Into a Routine When You’ve Gotten Off Track

February 24, 2011

Here's how it usually happens: We go through a busy or hard season of life and I get off track of my usual routines, become disorganized, and things feel generally chaotic. So, I spend time putting together an elaborate routine, making all these amazing plans of how I will be more on the ball, more [...]

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Creating A Dinner Time Routine

February 1, 2011

Written by Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
It's been a long day.  You're tired, the kids are cranky, or needy, or fighting, or all three at once, the house looks like a tornado just passed through, and you look at the clock and it's 5:00 pm and you think, "Oh NO! What are we [...]

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Routines to Help the Weary Mom

January 28, 2011

Written by Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer
I know a lot about exhaustion.  In fact, as I write this, my family is on the mend from the flu.  While I may not have the fever and chills anymore, two weeks of the flu spreading through our family has left me one tired Momma!
But you don’t need to [...]

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Lists for Homemaking and Home Educating (And a Giveaway!)

January 20, 2011

*Giveaway has now ended*
As I take some downtime this winter to recover and allow my body some time to heal, I am also contemplating my schedule for the upcoming months.
One of my major goals has been to clear a lot of the busyness off of my plate, making my schedule more realistic with a whole [...]

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How to Keep a Clean Home: It’s all About Prevention

October 19, 2010
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Written by Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
We've been talking about a lot of different natural preventions and remedies here at Keeper of the Home over the past several weeks, but today I'm going to venture off the beaten path a little bit and talk about a different kind of prevention - around the home.
We've all heard [...]

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Fresh Voices and Perspectives at Keeper of the Home

August 9, 2010

I love writing at Keeper of the Home. It has been a delight for me to be able to share daily these past (almost) 3 years, on topics like natural living, nutrition and real food, faith, gentle mothering, homemaking and more.
It has been a surprising joy to establish this ministry of encouraging and building up [...]

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1000th Post Party Giveaway: 5 Homestead Blessings Videos and $25 Gift Certificate from FBS Books

June 16, 2010

As a homeschooling mom myself, I've found that it's not always easy to find all of the curriculum and resources that you're looking for in one place.
So it was wonderful to realize that one of my current advertisers, FBS Books, not only has almost all of the curriculum that I have chosen for our next [...]

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Learning to Live With Less

April 20, 2010
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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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Creating Routine with Little Ones

April 7, 2010
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Photo by David Clow
By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
If you’re anything like me, you may have read in books, watched on a Nanny show, or read posts on blogs about creating a routine for your children.  It all sounds so wonderful to have perfectly planned out days where you are super productive, spend lots of quality [...]

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