A Little of This and a Little of That

I have found a wonderful little E-book. 

It is called Homestead Simplicity: Natural Clean 

It is a great little E-book for $9.95. It is full of homemade cleaners for the kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, as well as beauty recipes, foot soaks, outdoor helps..lots of great ideas!. It gives easy recipes using easy to find ingredients.

This is a favorite of mine...

All Around Spray Cleaner

Grab a spray bottle; fill 3/4 full with water. Add one dropper full of grapefruit seed extract. Add a dropper(or 10 drops) of lavender essential oil and shake well. 

You can clean appliances, countertops, floors. It really is an all purpose cleaner. And free of harsh chemicals.

This is probably my new favorite book.  I printed it out, bound it and it is in the kitchen and has been used a ton already. Well worth the $9.95!!

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Another book I have found and love is Passionate Housewives Desperate for God.

Have you struggled to reconcile God’s vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? 

Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker’s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman — the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Such is the image of the “desperate housewife” that the modern media, culture, and feminism are promoting with great energy.

In a delightfully fresh and honest way, this book addresses these issues head-on and provides fresh vision for the hopeful homemaker. Hear a former “Christian” feminist share how she went from a die-hard homemaker-in-training to a dedicated career woman and then back again — after God gripped her heart. See the hollow counterfeit of whitewashed feminism and “me-ology” destroyed. And consider the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her.

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 Do you lapbook? We just recently found out about lapbooks. Here are a few links to check out. This one is my favorite-it is totally free. They have a ton of great stuff there! This one is also a good place to start. And then this one is also a good place to get info. 

We may be the only family in the homeschool world that wasn't doing them. :O) They are a great way to use thematic units for all levels with your kids. They are a manilla folder comprised of mini-books about what the kids are learning on a certain topic. Check it out...see what you think. 

By the way, I think that these are great even if you don't homeshool, but have little ones around! A fun together activity. I will try to post a few pictures of some of our lapbooks a little later. 

Hope today is a great one!!