Adventures in Mothering

A Few Changes

I’m sorry I’ve not posted much lately — just a busy momma! I have made a few changes I wanted you to be aware of. After much prayer and deliberation, I’ve removed the store from this website. Why? Well, for the last month and a half, I’ve been selling my main three books on Amazon.com, [...]

Cloned Coffee: Mock Coconut Mocha Frappuccino

Super Simple Homemade Coconut Mocha Frappachino Recipe

Last summer, Starbucks got me addicted to the Coconut Mocha Frappuccino, then stopped selling it. Want to know how to make your own at home? Here’s how! Last summer, a web design client very sweetly gave me a $50 gift card to Starbucks as a thanks. I still had money on my card when the [...]

Mommy Guilt & Parenting Books

This morning, a friend on Facebook shared an article at the London Daily Mail about how a university study shows that parenting guides by “experts” make new mother’s feel inadequate by setting standards too high. (I’d like a high paying job studying the blatantly obvious…lol). This got me thinking about my own mothering journey. I [...]

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Beyond the Chore Chart: Chores, Kids, and the Secret to a Happy Mom

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been out-of-doors, enjoying the gorgeous weather! Pussywillows are blooming, and bulbs are coming up. We nearly have some spring lettuce. It sure feels good to take care of those springtime chores together with my kids. In the mean while, my new book, Beyond the Chore Chart: Chores, Kids, [...]

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Saving Money with Top Down Budgeting

When we, as moms, try to “save money” or shave some extra dollars off of our household budgets, we usually do so in one primary category: the grocery budget, with toiletries and cleaners thrown in there. I get that. I save money that way too, and even wrote a book about it (Shopping and Cooking [...]

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Making Plans but Altering Course

Filed under Christian Living by Kimberly on December 27, 2010 at 9:53 pm {no comments}

Hubby recently made an observation about me that made me smile. He said that I’m probably the most planning-orientated person he’s ever known. As we talked, he was telling me that it blew his mind the way I always make plans, set goals, have lists, and so forth. My friend Kate once commented that I [...]

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6 Thoughts on Mommy Me-Time

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 17, 2010 at 6:44 am {no comments}

What is it that I love so much about dirty faced toddlers? :-)

When my oldest daughter was a toddler and my son was a baby, I was so busy with activities filling my schedule, I hardly was fit to call myself a stay at home mother. It was more like an “always on the run mother”, attending parenting classes, play dates, mother’s days out, Bible study, visitation, [...]

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Storing Flatware in a Large Family

Filed under House & Home, Storage Ideas by Kimberly on October 17, 2009 at 10:42 pm {no comments}

Having an old house (114 or so years old), we have lots of space, but poorly organized from a structural standpoint. Our kitchen is large, but few drawers. It’s strange. So, sorting silverware became an issue, because we have a lot of silverware. Actually It’s more like flatware, since it’s not silver, and it really [...]

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Are Stay at Home Moms Burying Their Talents? (Part Five)

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 19, 2009 at 3:34 am {no comments}

The longer I am at this amazing adventure of motherhood, the more I am convinced that women find the domestic life “boring” or a “waste of their talents” because they don’t have the proper skills to manage a household or children. Further, many contemporary women lack the vision to really embrace the possibilities being a [...]

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Are Stay at Home Moms Burying Their Talents? (Part Four)

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 18, 2009 at 3:15 am {no comments}

We are given talents by God (and “talents” is a generic word in the Bible, meaning any kind of gift God gives to us…it could be natural skills, or it could be finances, or it could be our children, and so forth), and we are commanded to exercise some stewardship over them. We are to [...]

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