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How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds for Replanting and Gift-Giving

Did you grow sunflowers this year? Now is the time to harvest sunflower seeds for next year! Collecting seeds from your own sunflowers is super easy. Homegrown sunflower seeds make great gifts, and saving your own seeds will free up a bit of room in your gardening budget for next year.

The Perfect Garden Project for Kids

Looking for a fun and easy garden project for kids? Plant a sunflower house! There’s something magical about seeds–stick them in the ground and then a plant appears. And there’s something even more magical about sunflower seeds–such a tall and beautiful flower from such small beginnings. Planting sunflower seeds always reminds me a bit of Jack…

What I Learned about Money from a Velveeta Cheese Bank

What I Learned About Money from a Velveeta Cheese Box

I guest posted this week over at Money Saving Mom, all about my early budget training as a child, my husband’s lack of budget training, and what we’re doing now to train our own children. It all started with a Velveeta cheese box… What I Learned About Money from a Velveeta Cheese Box The irony…

DIY Towel Rack Labels

These DIY Towel Rack Labels add charm and remove the guess work in our high-traffic, multi-use powder room. A small project that somehow got stuck on my to-do list FOR-E-VER, the labels required

11 Ways to Enjoy Winter with Your Kids

I get it–I know cabin fever is a real thing. I know it’s hard to get everyone bundled up. I know it’s cold. I know some days are sunless and dreary. Many people simply do not enjoy winter. While I happen to love winter–A decade spent in Texas left me homesick for full blown seasons and I was thrilled to return…

15 Boy-Friendly Non-Candy Valentines

Looking for non-candy valentines ideas? If you shudder at the thought of all the sugar, food dyes, and sketchy ingredients looming just around the corner in the form of valentine treats, these non-candy valentines are just for you. As a real food enthusiast, I especially love the first two ideas on this list. You…

How to Keep the Love Alive (It’s not what you think)

Marriage is not always easy, but you probably don’t need me to tell you that. 12-and-a-half years of marriage don’t make me an expert, but

Rustic DIY Place Card Holders

Don’t you just love place card holders? The possibilities are endless…use them to label food dishes, announce a special message, provide instructions, display photos, add

How I Became an Accidental Entrepreneur

At the beginning of our marriage in 2003, we had a lot of debt. Over $80k, to be exact. It seemed insurmountable, but with some great resources (more on that later), and God’s provision, we were debt free within three years. And we did it without high paying jobs and while continuing to tithe 10% of our income.

Press On, Weary Mama

Mothering is hard, exhausting work. And that’s on a good day! There comes a season for every mother when she is tempted to throw in the towel (if only she could find a clean one, as Crystal Paine likes to say), when she genuinely wonders whether her failures as a mother can possibly be redeemed.