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Support, encouragement,
practical suggestions to help
you at home.
You are loved
and lovely.
Your
work, your life
as a homemaker
and being a
keeper at home
is precious
work.
Never ever let
anyone or
anything
persuade you
otherwise and
never allow the
enemy to come in
and flood your
thoughts out of
your home and
wash away your
commitment to
improve and be
strengthened in
your role as the
wife: helper to
your husband,
the keeper of
the home, the
mother of
children and the
light and joy of
the family.
You're worth it.
Be an excellent
homemaker.
Your family is
worth it!
Do good things
daily... that
the Word of God
be not
blasphemed.
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I have many more ideas for your
homemaking and serving in my
"Good
Things & Recipes"
section |
NEW! How
to Prepare Children to Cook With You in the Kitchen
Do The Next Thing
a poem quoted by Elisabeth Elliot |
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For Breakfast
updated...
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I've made a big
change in the
Breakfast venue at
our house over the
last few years.
I used to serve hot
cereal most every
morning and most
every morning I
would see the less
and cheerful
response and
imagined hearing the
collective silent
groans and so I
decided to make a
dramatic change.
So, instead of the
made in a hurry
pot of oatmeal and
toast, I've
been using a basic
menu or routine that
consists of a
rotation of fruits
and nuts along with
a variation of one
of the following:
waffles, eggs &
toast, smoothies,
biscuits & gravy,
pancakes, crepes,
yogurt & granola,
breakfast burritos,
aebelskivers,
omelettes or french
toast. |
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For Lunch |
We have a wide
variety of foods for
lunches... if
not "left-over's,"
then we choose an
item from the "Bunches
of Lunches" list
I made up a long
time ago. It's taped
inside our
kitchen cabinet.
This list has helped
me immensely over
the years when I
stand in the kitchen
and wonder: what in
the world should I
fix today? |
For Snacks when
Dinner's going to
be
later |
We have fruits,
nuts, bagels and
cream cheese,
veggies and dip,
cookies or smoothies,
pop-corn or chips
and salsa. |
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For Dinner
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Need some Ideas?
Dozens of Dinners
and
Dinner meal recipes
Print off the Dozens
of Dinners and/or
the Bunches of
Lunches and tape the
page inside one of
your cabinet doors.
You will have ideas
at the ready... You
just have to
remember to look!!
So... ideas for you:
Make two main dishes
at a time.. this way
you will have one to
serve and one to
save for another
meal. If you
will do this every
week at least once,
you will have quite
a "storehouse" of
back up meals.
Then each time you
face a busy day,
just pull out a meal
from the freezer in
the morning and
you'll have most of
your dinner prepped
in advance with
little extra effort.
Usually, the biggest
effort is simply
gathering the food and
allotting
appropriate time for
the meal prep!
Another helpful
trick is to cook up
LARGE batches of
meat, beans or
soup/stew.
Cut up, shred or
slice meats before
you freeze them.
Freeze in zip-lock
bags according to
the needs of your
family and you will
have the most
time-consuming
portion of the meal
already done!
Get your pantry
cabinet well stocked
with a variety of
basics -- |
Beatitudes For
Homemakers
by Ella May
Miller
*Blessed is she
whose daily tasks
are a work of love;
for her willing
hands
and happy
heart transform duty
into joyous service
to all her family
and God.
*Blessed is she who
opens the door to
welcome both
stranger and
well-loved friends;
for gracious
hospitality is a
test of brotherly
love.
*Blessed is she who
meads both stockings
and broken toys and
broken hearts;
for
her understanding is
a balm to her
husband and
children.
*Blessed is she who
scours and scrubs;
for well she knows
that cleanliness is
one expression of
godliness.
*Blessed is she whom
children love; for
the love of a child
is of greater value
than fortune or
fame.
*Blessed is she who
sings in her work;
for music lightens
the heaviest load
and brightens the
dullest chore.
*Blessed is she who
dusts away doubt and
fear and sweeps all
the cobwebs of
confusion;
for her
faith will triumph
over all adversity.
*Blessed is she who
serves laughter and
smiles with every
meal;
for her
cheerfulness is an
aid to mental and
physical digestion.
*Blessed is she who
introduces Jesus
Christ to her
children;
for Godly
sons and daughters
shall be her reward.
*Blessed is she who
preserves the
sacredness of the
Christian home;
for
hers is a divine
trust that crowns
her with dignity.
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I've had dozens of gallon jars on my shelves for our
whole marriage.
Gallon jars with fabric toppers
are an inexpensive way to both
decorate and store your food!
The fabric toppers are simple to
sew & easy to keep clean!
You can save money buy buying
food in gallon jars and washing
and re-using the jars when
you've depleted the original
contents. You can purchase pickles,
relish, peanut butter,
mayonnaise, salad dressings,
olives, honey, cherries,
&
more in gallon jars.
You can make lovely jar
"toppers"
- I'll show
you how!
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There are MANY
tricks you can learn
and implement ---and
if you will--- you
will find you truly
enjoy keeping your
home! The better
part of that is that
your children will
grow up SEEING a
glad mother who
ENJOYED
*BEING* a mother to
her family. |
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Ready Set Clean from a Saver of Quite a Lot
-pamela spurling |
Help Me Organize My
Home!!
-Carts!! --ps |
A
Path of Passion
by Mrs. Sandy Willoughby |
Let's Make Things Pretty
-pamela spurling |
Home Making
-by Pamela Lancaster |
Shopping Lists &
Notebooks
-pamela spurling |
Where Do I Start?
-pamela
spurling |
Web-reprints of Mary Pride's "Help" magazine.
Here:
home-school.com |
Home Made Soaps and Cleaners
-Debra
Garner |
My
Top Ten to Do's
-pamela
spurling |
A Baker's Dozen Ideas
---pamela spurling
These are
helps if you're feeling pressured |
USE YOUR CROCKPOT Mom of 9's Place
here are many ideas for you! |
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Need fellowship with other women so
that they might help you on your journey as a mother and homemaker?
Christian Mommies of Many Blessings
cmomb.com |
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Future Christian Homemakers
You can order a
Handbook
filled with instructions for homemaking skills.
You can also read about starting a Future Christian Homemakers group in your home.
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Homemaking & Organization
emilie barnes
More Hours in My Day
& Survival
for Busy Women
Family Manager
The Family Manager &
Be Your Best |
Homemaking & Cleaning
Learn
HOW to clean
and what
products to use
Don Aslett
The Cleaning Team
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Christian
HomeKeeper Network
Encouragement,
Instruction and Mentoring in the
spirit of Titus 2 and Proverbs
31 |
Homemaking/Cooking Aids
Urban Homemaker
back to basics
products for the homemaker.
Bosch, K-tec, plus recipes and
more.
Bonus: a
"bookstore" loaded with books
for the Christian home! |
Home & Time Management
Click
here on Planning
aids for the home & homemaker. |
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Managers of Their Homes, by
Steve and Teri Maxwell
Titus2.com
The website
designed to build up and
encourage mothers. They
also offer articles and a
message board
in addition to a
monthly email newsletter to
which you can subscribe. They
also have homeschooling helps
and downloads for you. |
 You and I can be organized... it
takes time, one step at a time…
and patience.
Organization is a process not a
destination. The key to remember
is that we must take steps
forward…always pressing on.
It is a DECISION to press on---daily! It may be that
you feel overwhelmed by the
accumulation and disarray of
your home. I read somewhere---
sometime ago, it didn’t get
cluttered and disorganized over
night and it won’t get neat and
organized overnight. All you can
do is to
 do the next right
thing for the LORD. Some
days you may feel like you can’t
seem to get a single thing done.
I have been thinking about this
a lot lately because of
different interruptions in the
schedule and distractions in my
thinking… so I have thought:
If you can’t do something great
today… do something important! You know, this may seem like a
spin on the familiar ‘don’t just
stand there… do something!"
However, when it comes to
serving the Lord, sometimes the
saying must be heeded this way:
"don’t just do something, stand
there!" What are the
most important things that need
to be done today… then, do those
things.
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Having a Mary Heart and a Martha
Mind
Lord of all pots and pans and
things, since I’ve no time to be
A saint by doing lovely things,
or watching late with Thee,
Or dreaming in the dawn-light,
or storming Heaven’s gates,
Make me a saint by getting meals
and washing up the plates.
Although I must have Martha’s
hands, I have a Mary mind,
And when I black the boots and
shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I
find.
I think of how they trod the
earth, what time I scrub the
floor:
Accept this meditation, Lord, I
haven’t time for more.
Warm all the kitchen with Thy
love, and light it with Thy
peace;
Forgive me all my worrying, and
make my grumbling cease.
Thou who didst love to give men
food, in room or by the sea,
Accept this service that I do -—
I do it unto Thee.
—Cecily Rosemary Hallack
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The greatest
danger of the computer for men
tends to be pornography.
But the greatest danger of the
computer or
internet for women is
not necessarily p-rnography -
but something equally damaging
in a different realm.
In just
recent years it was Email lists & Message boards --
now it's BLOGS and FACEBOOK
-- PLEASE: Watch your COMPUTER TIME!
There are many ways you can
learn about homemaking... sharing and receiving ideas and
encouragements through
web
based or email discussion lists.
There are several such lists,
on
which I have been a participant.
Oh, the initial THRILL of
receiving messages from all over
the world!
But then---bondage
sets in and a woman might find
herself saying
over and over to
the children, "Just a minute..."
or, "Just a sec..."
These minutes or seconds then
become hours. I know this to my
shame from personal experience.
I do strongly caution you
---very strongly caution you---
that email lists, BLOGS,
FACEBOOK and other social
networks
are EXTREMELY
addicting and are
time robber & mind
consumers.
THEY WILL DESTROY YOUR HOME-LIFE
AND RELATIONSHIPS
IF YOU'RE NOT EXCEEDINGLY
CAREFUL AND VIGILENT.
I say this in
love, and would be remiss were I
to not share this
'down
side' of email
lists, FACEBOOK or BLOGS.
Yes, wonderful and fulfilling
conversation and friendships can
and do develop.
Yes, wonderful friendships are
rekindled and maintained.
BUT --
Pleased be advised to use
extreme caution --
and PLEASE
do so under the supervision of
your husband
---I'm not
kidding!!
If your husband EVER
comments about the great amount
of time you are
spending reading blogs, facebook,
email-lists, etc., then close down the
computer!!
Seek his
suggestions and accountability for
your time. Really!
Please be wise.
Even THIS website is simply
meant
to be a tool---a tool for you to
use to get the information you
need
to be a godly woman, an
obedient wife and loving
homemaker.
THIS website you're
viewing now
is to
help you,
not to harm you.
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING -
WARNING - WARNING
YOU WILL REGRET IT AND
YOUR FAMILY-LIFE WILL SUFFER
IF
YOU DO NOT HEED WARNINGS.
SERIOUSLY... I KNOW FIRSTHAND
JUST HOW DAMAGING IT CAN BE TO A
FAMILY IF MAMA
IS
ON THE COMPUTER FOR HOURS ON
END.
STAY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE TIME
YOU'RE SPENDING ON THE COMPUTER.
SERIOUSLY, DEAR SISTER, YOU WILL
REGRET IT IF YOU DON'T.
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"They
show you how detergents take out bloodstains. I think if
you've got a
T-shirt with bloodstains all over it, maybe your laundry
isn't your biggest problem."
(this is apparently from the Seinfeld show --- I never watched it
and so hope it's not offensive... I just thought it was sooo funny
--- that's all!)
Above
Rubies
Nancy Campbell's
full resource site
for women.
Articles, books and materials to
purchase and forms for magazine
subscriptions.
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momof9splace.com
Articles, Articles, Articles and
more articles! You'll see so many good ideas,
Christian cards and graphics,
dozens of links, solid
information on the Christian
walk and articles regarding the
King James Bible, its
reliability and authenticity. You'll want to
bookmark this site
as it will be a broad resource for your home. |
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Titus Two Women
http://titus2menandwomen.org
A place to sit back,
read articles
and
enjoy a cup of
coffee |
Do you have trouble with too
much to do
and too little time
to "do it all"?
Take a
look at this helpful site:
Dinners In The Freezer
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The
21st
Century
Christian Homekeeper
This is really a neat-neat
site... just filled with so much
godly instruction and
encouragement for you!
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