This is a guest post from Amy who blogs at Mom’s Toolbox.
I’m on a quest to pack nutritious lunches that won’t be tossed in the trash for my children… and summer is the perfect time for research. Join me on this quest, and submit any ideas you might have… I can use all the help [...]
After two months the other powers to be at Happy to be at Home decided to let me write a simplicity post. Actually I am quite surprised, since my life is extremely complicated. After reading all the great Simple Sunday posts, I was a bit stumped on what I should write about. Then I remembered [...]
Without trying very hard, many people can spend a small fortune on cleaning products. Add to that the vast array of choices, and simply buying commercial cleaning products can be a feat unto itself.
Our family recently switched to making some of our own cleaning products. Now we haven’t gone so far as to make our [...]
People usually have garage sales to…
de-clutter their home (so they don’t have to rent a 26 foot truck to take everything to Goodwill) and
make a little extra money.
Unfortunately, after holding a garage sale, many people find that most of their stuff is still sitting in their garage and they only have a few measly bucks [...]
Growing up, I knew that every birthday and Christmas would bring with it a new and wonderful book. I was blessed with an aunt who worked at a library in downtown Chicago and in bookstores. She had her eyes on all the fabulous books that were out there and always knew the best books. She [...]
We are excited to introduce you to Jia, our next kitchen of the week guest blogger at Happy To Be At Home. Beginning on Sunday, she will be opening her kitchen to us all and sharing all of her cooking adventures throughout the week. We hope you will join us!
Jia’s blog, Color Me Untypical, is a [...]
This year I am trying something new for our homeschool, a yearbook. I have never made a yearbook before, but I thought it would be something fun for all the kids to work on and could help them develop skills they might not get in a packaged curriculum.
Since this is still an idea in progress, [...]
Happy To Be At Home.net (H2b@H) is the collaborative effort of Toni, Joy, and Kate, the original 3 Moms from the “3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days” series. Their vision for this website is to create a haven where all women can find encouragement and inspiration in their homemaking duties. The 3 Moms believe all [...]
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Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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