Mail Bag: Finding Balance

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By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Got a question for the mail bag? Send it to me! A reader writes: This is a question that has stumped me for a very long time! How in the world do so many of you wives and mothers have time to study and blog and keep the rest [...]

How Does Your Garden Grow?

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By Contributing Writer, Yvonne Harink It’s been a long winter for us here in northern Alberta. After more than 6 months of a snow-covered world, we are eagerly watching the soil reappear and thoughts of gardening are sprouting up in our minds. Every year I am a little more excited about getting a chance to turn our little patch [...]

The “Pinch Me, I’m Dreaming” Homemaking Package of a Lifetime {With a Bonus Just for VW Readers!}

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{UPDATE: THE ULTIMATE HOMEMAKING EBOOK SALE IS NOW OVER!} Three HUGE Benefits for Your Life! Benefit One: A Comprehensive Homemaking Library For 6 days only, more than 75 well-known bloggers and authors in the homemaking sphere have joined together to offer 97 of their most popular eBooks and eCourses, valued at just over $600, for [...]

Practical Practices – A Ministry Mindset

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© rnl – Fotolia.com By Contributing Writer, Stephani This past school year I led discipleship courses for young ladies at a local homeschool academy. A recent assignment required each student to submit a personal question they wanted to discuss during an upcoming class period. One fourteen-year-old girl submitted this question: What are some practical things [...]

Building a Bird Garden with Your Children

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert The Vision Two of our sons have been avid bird watchers since they were little boys.  Their favorite place to watch birds was the woods beside our home.  When a building contractor destroyed those woods to make room for a new house, the boys were devastated! They devised a plan [...]

Mother’s Day is Only One of 97 Reasons to Watch this Video

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{If you can’t see this video in your email box, you’ll need to click through to the blog to watch it.} Pinch Me Please… That’s how I felt as I looked through my own Ultimate Homemaking eBook bundle last week. (Wondering how I got one early? Because The Best of Visionary Womanhood is included!) I [...]

Organizing Our Week Around the Lord’s Day

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By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson On a Lord’s Day while in Burma a pastor put a note on his motel room door with instructions not to clean his room. When the cleaning lady asked why, he told her that he serves the God that gives one day of rest in seven.  She was amazed and [...]

Clothing Organization for Families

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By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Pack Rats vs. Purgers I’m not a pack rat. I throw out stuff whenever I get the urge. I’m never happier than when I’m pitching things into the garbage can or a bag marked “Good Will.” My idea of clothing organization would be to get rid of all clothing [...]

Delicious Soups and Salads from Scratch

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Join me over at Keeper of the Home today where I review two marvelous little cookbooks that will not only give you loads of amazing soup and salad recipes, but will teach you all kinds of important tips and tricks to making them. Head on over and learn more!

Honoring Him Helps Me

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By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler While thinking back over the many lessons I’ve learned to create a smoother running home, I realized three of my top tips have come from the mouth of my husband. Perhaps I remember them so well because I balked at the idea of each of them. Although I balked at [...]