This page contains affiliate links. Please view my disclosure. Over 50 stay at home mom bloggers shared their best homemaking tips, encouragement, recipes, parenting, marriage tips, kids activities, and MORE. Those great articles and tips have been compiled into a Complete Guide for stay-at-home moms! Each day of the Guide will be updated here! Scroll down to meet the … [Read more...]
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10+ Tips for Teaching Picky Eaters to Eat Healthy Foods
Are you tired of dinner time being a battle field with your picky eaters? You put in effort to plan meals, shop for the healthiest ingredients that you can, and prepare a meal for your family just to have a child or children look at it like it is poop on a plate. I recently had the chance to learn a few new tips for teaching picky eaters to eat healthy … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Homeschooling Resources
All stay-at-home moms are doing some level of homeschooling. Whether you are full-time homeschooling your children, supplementing at home after your child gets home from school, or just curious about whether homeschooling is for you, this resource list is for you. It is packed with tips, activities and encouragement for the homeschooling mom! … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Resources for Living on One Income
Being a stay-at-home mom for some is a choice, but for others it is the ONLY choice. We make staying home with our children possible by our planning, focus on our budgets and money management. These are fancy terms, but setting up a budget spreadsheet for your family is not complicated. Living on one income is possible. I have included my own personal Excel spreadsheet that I … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Introduction
This guide is a support and a resource for all of us who choose to be stay-at-home moms. We need to be sure we are filling our cups as moms, wives and women so we can care for our families each day with joyful hearts and dedication. This is an enormous resource for being the best stay-at-home mom you can be. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure. This … [Read more...]
7 Favorite Crock Pot Recipes & Freezer Storage Tip
Crock pot or Slow Cooker, whatever you call it, it is essential to an organized mom! (Ok, there are some who may be able to make a home-cooked meal from scratch every night because they are just THAT GOOD at this mom/wife thing, but I need the crock pot!) I put together 7 favorite crock pot recipes and an essential freezer storage tip that helps me meal plan more … [Read more...]
When Did Being A Good Mom Become A Bad Thing?
Have you noticed this puzzling trend? In a time of anti-bullying legislation and overall intolerance for criticism of any kind, soft bullying of moms from other moms is taking place. I say soft bullying because it goes unnoticed by the one doing it; it is often masked in humor all at the expense of some moms. I recently saw a meme on a blog that I really enjoy that called … [Read more...]
6 Tips for Getting Dinner on the Table After Having A Baby (or Twins!)
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure. I should have prepared more. I should have known it was going to be virtually impossible to cook with new babies while supervising my older children. This list of suggestions is what I wish I had known to get dinner on the table after having a baby (or babies). Also in this post, tips and ideas from multiple … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Recipe Round-Up
{Post by Wendy Woerner} As we near Valentine's Day, many of us are beginning to plan a special night out with our spouse and/or create unique gifts for our families. Dining out can often be expensive, so I have gathered a Valentine's Day recipe round up. These Valentine's Day recipes can be prepared at home and given as gifts. They can be served at breakfast, or used to … [Read more...]
Make Leftovers New
When you live on a budget, groceries need to stretch. Make leftovers new with these 7 tips to stretch your grocery budget farther. You know that chicken broccoli skillet recipe on the back of the condensed cream of broccoli soup can? I made it for my family, but I was not feeling like eating the leftovers. It did not go to waste, though. I came up with an idea to … [Read more...]
Blue Burgers with Balsamic Glazed Mushrooms PLUS Apple Balsamic Potato Salad
Ok, so the burgers aren't actually the color blue, but they do involve some blue cheese. Yum! Every now and then we splurge on great cheeses and of course some 'fancy' ingredients like vinegars have a long shelf life, so their cost is divided over time. I came up with this recipe on a Saturday afternoon when we were planning on grilling burgers AGAIN! It is our Summer … [Read more...]
Turkey Burgers with Vegetables Inside
Often when I set out to make dinner, I find that I am missing one or two items from the recipe list. Other time I have ground turkey versus tenderloins or some other variation that just doesn't quite match a recipe. This scenario tends to help me create new recipes of my own through improvisation. (All the time I used to spend watching Food Network comes in … [Read more...]