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! I did get to these books on my list from last month: Fearless by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson) […] Read more…
Menu Plan Monday #24 – Bradley Diet
This week and for the next, oh, 30-some weeks, I will be posting menu plans that conform (mostly) to the Bradley Birth Pregnancy Diet. If you are pregnant, I STRONGLY advise you to find a Bradley Birth class. I wrote a huge post about Bradley Birthing classes last year. For those who are unfamiliar with […] Read more…
Feathering My Nest for Fall
I was excited to read Life As Mom‘s post about a fall festival. Never dawned on me to write about fall stuff and my goodness, September has nearly come and gone! It’s especially relevent that today’s theme is Feathering Your Nest! We found out just after Labor Day, that I am expecting again with an […] Read more…
Football Food / Preggo Craving
I don’t usually post on Sunday’s but I am having a craving for my husband’s bean dip. It’s really a what we have on hand kind of dip but there are a few essentials: REQUIRED: 2 LARGE cans of refried beans [EDITED from one regular can of refried beans) 1 lb of ground turkey (or […] Read more…
Book Review – Dancing With My Daughter
Dancing with my Daughter: Poems of Love, Wisdom & Dreams is a lovely gift book published by Loyola Press. In this book, Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, divides each chapter into a different dance and shares poems about the exhaustion, joy and fear of raising daughters. I’m not normally a person who enjoys these types of books, […] Read more…
Read-Aloud Thursday – Wakey Wakey!
This week, my daughter’s new favorite set of board books was one we got from the Children’s Book of the Month Club. These books have wonderful little illustrations and feature the same characters in all 4 books. They are great interactive books! The first one in the set is called What Shall We Do Today?. Each […] Read more…
BBAW – Reading Meme
You may have noticed that I have a button for Book Bloggers Appreciation Week in my sidebar. One of the events for BBAW is a a Reading Meme. Without further ado, here is my contribution: Do you snack while you read? YES. Not so good for my diet, but I always have. If so, favorite […] Read more…
Decluttered Closet – Mommy Edition
Photo by Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M Over the last year (and aggressively over the last 6 months), I have been trying to build myself a new wardrobe. It’s been almost 2 years since I worked outside the home and I don’t fit in to many of my pre-baby clothes. Last summer, I […] Read more…
Menu Plan Monday #23
This is a fairly easy week to plan since we had family in town & a wedding. Only sharing dinners this week since it’s been kind of nutty with all the family functions :). I will probably make Quiche for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch with a few leftovers. Nothing fancy. Fri – out with […] Read more…
Book Review – Dawn’s Prelude by Tracie Peterson
I was so excited to get an advance reading copy of Dawn’s Prelude by Tracie Peterson from Bethany House Publishers. This is the first book in Tracie’s new series Song of Alaska. Lydia is a young widow in a power struggle with her (significantly older) abusive husband’s children over her inheritance of all the marital […] Read more…