Our Favorite Homemade Pizza Recipe

Here is my husbands loaded pizza,
made with olives, mushrooms, peppers, onions and cheese!Yum!

One thing that always appears on our weekly menu is homemade pizza. After trying (and failing!) at many types of dough, this one I have modified from Crystal has become our #1 favorite. This is also a fun meal for the [...]

Dry Beans Are Not For Me

I know that probably one of the greatest frugal things you can do is to buy beans dry and cook them at home. This past week I have tried implementing this, however, I don’t think this is for me. I know, I know, I have read all the wonderful ways dry beans can save you [...]

Saving On Hand Soap

Today Life As Mom shared her tips for saving on hand soap (great idea to use body wash!). Before I found this little trick, it seemed as though we also went through A LOT of hand soap. Besides finding inexpensive ways to fill the soap dispenser, either buying refills very cheap at CVS or Walgreens, [...]

Feeding My Reading Habit

I love to read! While this is a good thing, keeping up with the amount of books I consume could be hard on the budget if I am buying them all the time. I go to my library almost every week, and that will fill my reading appetite. I do have to pay $50 a [...]

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Planning a vegetable garden this year? Are you new to vegetable gardening? Looking for some practical, basic advice on your gardening venture?

This week I am beginning a series titled “How Does Your Garden Grow?” where I will share what I have learned in the past 8 years of vegetable gardening. I am certainly not an [...]

What They See Is What You Get

Have you ever thought that your own perception of motherhood will have an impact on what kind of mother you are? If you look at motherhood as a blessing, an honor, and wonderful then you will be a mother who is a blessing, an honor and who is wonderful. Likewise, if you see mothering as [...]

About Me

Thank you so much for stopping by my little corner of blog land. This blog was created in the hopes that I can share with other women the glorious calling God has placed on our lives to be a keeper of the home, a help meet to our husbands and a mother to our children.
My [...]

Don’t Miss It

“ There is no higher calling, no greater privilege than being a vessel of life and later a teacher to souls which will live forever,” Mrs. Beall Phillips in her book, Verses of Virtue.The calling of motherhood is a noble and high calling, and yet this role is rarely given the honor and importance that [...]

Spring Cleaning: A New Look At An Old Tradition

The snow has finally melted and the weather is warming up. The fresh spring air smells so good after long cold winter months. It’s spring!

The traditional spring cleaning rituals begin in many homes this time of year. My mother would clean everything, and I mean everything each spring. Walls and ceilings would be scrubbed, [...]

The Keepers of the Springs by Peter Marshall

Once upon a time, a certain town grew up at the foot of a mountain range. It was sheltered in the lee of the protecting heights, so that the wind that shuddered at the doors and flung handfuls of sleet against the window panes was a wind whose fury was spent. High up in the [...]