Ed Note: As an older mom, I can tell you it is very wise to involve the little ones in household activities when they are very young and want to help. Here is how one young mom is achieving this goal. NORWEX IS NOT ONLY SAFE FOR KIDS, IT GETS KIDS INVOLVED! By Rebekka Parry […]
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Back to Basics
The simple phrase, “Getting Back to Basics”, has been going through my head since I have been setting up my camp kitchen with “basics” and while I was concocting the elk stew melange earlier this week. Basics, in my mind, are learning basic cooking skills such as sauteing, stock making, baking, yeast bread baking, roasting […]
Moving to the Camp Kitchen
I spent a large portion of my time last week moving kitchen essentials into my camp kitchen and boxing up the non-essentials from my “old” kitchen. The picture below shows my kitchen table, working counter top with a hot plate, electric tea kettle, and storage for silverware, mixing bowls, and pots and pans. The right […]
Homestead Blessings
When I was in high school I made a large percentage of my own clothes. I even started out as a Clothing and Textiles major in college. I have always been thankful that I had basic cooking and sewing skills so that I could stretch our family budget by cooking from scratch, mending and repairing […]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
My daughter had two baby showers this week-end while she is visiting Colorado. She received two copies of the popular children’s book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. It reminded me of this fun little ditty written a few years ago. Maybe you can identify. Read on: If you give […]
Help Name the Lamb Babies
Last week I told you about the CSA, The Living Farm I have joined this year. This week they sent us pictures of all the lambs born in the last week on the farm and they are sponsoring a naming contest. These pictures alone make me want to start raising lambs just so I can […]
Kitchen Remodeling Plans- Part Two
The above picture is a rendering of my proposed kitchen remodel floor plan with window seats. The most exciting development in the last week is that a Paonia, Colorado customer has asked if she could have my old cabinets and help with the demolition project. She came over, made measurements, took pictures, went home and […]
Grocery Shopping On A Budget eCourse
Lets face it, with the current economic conditions many of us are having more difficulty making the money we have cover all of our expenses. The good news is that there are hundreds of ways that you can reduce the strain on your budget and save money so you can keep more of that money […]
Spring is in the Air, Time to Remodel my Kitchen
When we were in the market for a new house seven and a half years ago, there were two things we were looking for: a shop to conduct The Urban Homemaker Business in and a great kitchen. Here is a picture of my existing kitchen: We got the great shop to run The Urban Homemaker […]
Are You Prepared for an Emergency?
Are you prepared for an emergency? After the East Coast was blasted with back to back snow storms/blizzards last month, many people were caught unprepared. Grocery stores emptied out of bottled water and other essentials quickly. Or consider the recent earthquake in Chili. Newspaper headlines pointed out the stores were looted and water was the […]