Homemade Disinfecting Wipes and a SURPRISE use

You have probably heard about homemade wet wipes I am sure, but have you heard about homemade disinfecting wipes? These wipes are made with alcohol and won’t bleach anything and they aren’t too harsh on skin either. They can be used as sanitizing wipes for hands, carts, counters, and tables. Use them to wash door […]

Household Notebook – Daily Schedule (Part 2)

 If you missed “Part 1” you can read it HERE. In the front of my household notebook is a handwritten schedule. Most everything else in my notebook is typed out but this is one page that I don’t type. Why you might ask? Well, that is because in a house with growing children our daily […]

Building a Household Notebook – Part 1

As a new school year is gearing up around here I have been on an organizing, rearranging, and purging spree. Must make room for new books, new schedules, and new phases. So I have revamped my Household Binder and I decided to show you what all is in mine. Maybe it will encourage you to […]

Staying in the Game.

Ever felt overwhelmed, under appreciated and all around just stretched too thin? Well this summer has left me feeling this way on more than one day. It isn’t any one thing but just all the “little” things combined. Garden. Children. Cooking. Laundry. Shopping. Cleaning the Basement. Purging clothes and toys. Training the new puppy. See […]

Making a Fitted Shirt Tutorial

See? Nice and long but just “frumpy” I had several shirts that I just didn’t like the way that they fit. So, the other day, I pulled them out and set about fixing them. They were nice and long but just frumpy. They just hung on me and I didn’t like that. So first I […]

True Christian Motherhood Review and Giveaway

Then, united, we can take back our homes, our children, our marriages and our time and stop sacrificing them to the world… on the alter of futility. And instead rightfully restore our homes, and offer our children and ourselves as a living sacrifice to the Lord.  (page 27) I have had the extreme pleasure of […]

A Cloth Diaper Shower

I recently have been blessed with my first niece on my side. Up until the last few weeks my children have been the only grandchildren on my side. But the impending birth of this baby brought about the need for a baby shower. And when my sister decided to cloth diaper, I started brain-storming ideas […]

Striving for Perfection?

As I spoke with a woman this week that has just recently become a mother of 2 I was reminded how things have changed for me over the years. Maggie “helping” Samantha In my “before children” home the focus was on my likes, tastes, and all about eye appeal. And then, a short 10 months […]