Hello & welcome to Happy Little Homemaker! I’m so glad that you stopped by! I would love for you to subscribe to my RSS Feed. You can also find me on Pinterest and Twitter. Thanks for visiting! Plain Promise, by Beth Wiseman, is the third in a series called Daughters of the Promise. This is […] Read more…
National Adoption Month
If you haven’t been reading my blog for a long time, you may not know that I am staunchly pro-life. Along with that, it only makes sense that I am also very FOR adoption. I believe all children have a right to be born AND loved! As such, I wanted to let you know about […] Read more…
The Hemming of Pants (for those who don't sew)
I am not a seamstress. I barely use my sewing machine. In fact, I usually tell people that my sewing machine and I have called a truce. I don’t use it and it doesn’t make me angry. But I had bought a bunch of new pants for Bones this summer (about 5 pr) and he’s […] Read more…
{CLOSED} Little Blue Book Giveaway
Every year for major church seasons (Lent, Easter, Christmas) my church has purchased several devotionals/meditations to correspond to the seasons readings. My favorite are always the Little Books from the Diocese of Saginaw. They are very simple little books. The Christmas book is called the Little Blue Book and this year it covers the Infancy […] Read more…
Catholic Prayer for Busy Moms – Starting the Day Off Right
Welcome to the first of four posts designed to encourage busy Catholic moms (back) into the habit of daily prayer. It will end on the first day of Advent. Hopefully, by the time the Christmas season is over (which is NOT Christmas!), we will all have worked our way up to an hour a day […] Read more…
30 Day Giving Challenge – Week 1
Well, the first week of the 30 day giving challenge is over. I was kind of stretched and so excited that I wanted to do it all at once and then petered out as the week went on. Isn’t THAT the story of my life! On Sunday, I did several things. I got my home […] Read more…
Book Review – Letters to Darcy by Tracy Ramos
From the Publisher: Letters to Darcy originated as a blog, written by a young woman from Texas named Tracy Ramos. The blog was comprised of a series of diary entries that Tracy wrote to her unborn daughter, Darcy, over the course of approximately nine months. Early in her pregnancy, Tracy learned Darcy had a rare, […] Read more…
The Christmas Giveaway Fun @ 5 Minutes for Mom
Well now that Halloween is over, Christmas is just about here! Like last year, 5 Minutes for Mom is having a great Christmas Giveaway extravaganza and more than 30 prizes will be offered. It started yesterday and will run until Monday, November 30 at 12pm EST. Winners will be drawn the next day. Maybe you […] Read more…
Preschool Calendar / Weather Station
Supplies needed: a 20″ x 30″ piece of foam board ($2.88 at WalMart) 4 (20 pc.) adhesive velcro dots ($2.67 each at WalMart) 12-13 pcs of cardstock or other paper envelopes (for pieces) marker that shows up on board to draw calendar grid clear packing tape pencil & eraser scissors printer yardstick First, I made […] Read more…
{CLOSED} WFMW & Giveaway – Busy Body Book
CLOSED! – Congrats to Wendy who said: My favorite thing that I have well organized is children’s books. The paperback ones that do not stand up on a shelf very well, are so organized and easy to find and flip through if they are kept in a canvas cube or box. I have two red […] Read more…