Teresa writes this about herself,
~I am a Christian wife and a mother at heart, although I cannot physically have children. I wanted to adopt, but my husband does not feel called to do this. I see that this is the best choice for us at this point in our lives, so I am at peace with this decision. I am amazed by the way God works in our lives. He has taken so many burdens out of my hands that were too big for me to carry. I know He will do the same for any of His children. He says..."Come, my yolk is easy and my burden is light" and I get more clarity each day of just how AWESOME and POWERFUL HE is. ~
Teresa is a sweet, sweet lady and I believe you will enjoy her blog. Take a moment and congratulate her on being this weeks Featured Blogger. If you have anyone you would like to nominate as a future Featured Blogger please email me.
I asked Kim to give me a little intro to her and her sisters blog and this is what she said...
"Sisters, Sisters, there were never such devoted sisters......"
My sister and I blog together. I am Kim(39), wife to Michael and homeschool mom of 2. My sister Jill(42) is a single homeschool mom. She homeschools her daugther, and has one other daughter in heaven. We live in Georgia not too far from each other. We feed our families organic (as much as possible), we mill our own grains and bake all of our families breads and baked goods. You won't find any Tastycakes or Hostess twinkies in our cabinets- no way!!!
My hubby says "the kitchen is the heart of the home" and where a wife and mother can minister her love and care for her family's health, through the work of her hands, and time she sacrifices"
They have been blogging here with us at Homesteadblogger since April of this year. Many great recipes have been posted and I have to say I have tried some and they are GREAT! Here is a tasty looking recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Dough... yum!
You can access their archives and find lots of new recipes that way... and they are all using freshly ground wheat!!!
Jill, the big sister, shares with you pictures of her pets.
And Kim, the little sister, gives you a tour of her kitchen.
This is a great new blog and I think you will enjoy it very much. Congratulations Kim and Jill on being this weeks Featured Blogger!
And if you have someone you would like to nominate for a future Featured Blogger send me their name and blog.
What a pleasure it is for me to bring you this weeks featured blogger! Not only is she a great homestead blogger, but she is my dearest in real life friend. Lindsey~ At Home on this Mountain
On her blog that began a little more than a year ago, you will meet her sweet family. Mama to four precious blessings and many more to come if the Lord wills, and wife to a pretty great guy. They are a lovely family and I am so thankful that the Lord crossed our paths those some 5+ years ago! (wow can you believe it has been that long?)
On her blog you will get a closer look of how she is At Home on this Mountain.
Lindsey shares with us some great recipes and her monthly menu plans. Here are some fun times she had with her family on Father's Day last year
and on a snowy day this past winter. She created her children some modest swim wear for a trip to Dollywood last summer and you can see those pictures on her blog. Sewing is one of her many abilities and you can see some more of her craftiness here! Organizing is such fun... well for some of us.. hee hee, here Lindsey organized her Crafting Closet. Lindsey has also lost 25 lbs and she tells us what she is doing here.
So drop by and tell her hello and congratulations on being this weeks Featured Blogger.
If you have a Featured Blogger that you would like to nominate here on Homesteadblogger you can send me their blog address and name, we have new bloggers each week!
Congratulations to our new Featured Blogger of the Week, Mary Anne!
What is wonderful about these past two weeks Featured Bloggers are that they are Mother and Daughter!
Mary Anne began blogging with us in December of 2007 on her blog Woodruffe Rabbits. She lets us know a little bit about her in her first post. She shares with us how she loves old toys and games. Here you will see her beloved pet rabbit Atticus. She is a very talented young lady and she shows us some of her drawings. Here are some of her Treasures in the Trunk. You can see how she she grows and dries violets...
I hope you will stop by and say hello and congratulate her for being this weeks Featured Blogger!!!
Congratulations Mary Anne we look forward to many more wonderful posts from you!!!
This weeks Featured Blogger is.... Sister Lori! You can visit her blog here... Be Ye Separate.
She has been blogging with us for almost a year now. She has a lovely blog with beautiful pictures. A little about her in her own words are,
I enjoy being a wife to my wonderful husband and mother to my 7 children, reading scripture, sewing, quilting, spinning, weaving, gardening, canning, cooking, baking, knitting, crocheting, farming and the list goes on...
While browsing through her blog she has many interesting topics. You can read about her Harvesting Sunflowers, She has a wonderful looking Whole Wheat Bread recipe here. One of her hobbies is Sewing, in her picture there she has a beautiful vintage Singer sewing machine! She talks of her son taking a bride and Getting Married. She spends time sharing with us as she is Counting her blessings. Here she brings us along and talks of her Homeskilling 101 with her children. Recently she has Moved and she lets us tag along through all her excitement and shares her journey with us. And as I said there are many lovely pictures. Here is one where she had some Promised Pictures. And what homestead would be complete without Farmlife?
So stop by and give her a hearty congratulations on being The Featured Blogger and if you have anyone you would like to nominate you can contact me.
Our featured blogger for this week is Farrah of Keeper of the Home. She joined us in January 2007 and has been blogging regularly for our community since then.
Farrah recently shared a link about Green Living, and some basic information about fasting, but her latest post on being happy as a wife and mother is one of my favorite posts from Farrah. She may not have pictures on her blog or the most posts, but I can tell that Farrah is a genuine person just trying to take the best care of her family that she can. Stop by her blog and say hello - you just might make a new friend!
Leanne is a blogger that inspires me! She is doing so many things that I want to be doing in my home. I actually "met" Leanne online about 3 years ago and we've stayed in touch ever since. But that is NOT why I chose her as a Featured Blogger. I just think that she has a lot of great info on her blog to offer to those of us with the same mindset.
Leanne, of At The Good Life, works hard to live a frugal lifestyle and this isn't easy as she lives in New Zealand! The prices of many items are so much higher when compared to the US! She homeschools her children and has the most wonderful kids, both very capable of doing many things at such a young age. Her daughter recently prepared their entire Thanksgiving dinner by herself and she is very handy at lots of crafts including quilting! Leanne's son is a typical boy into "racing cars" and hand-raising a bird. Her husband, Brent, is very supportive of all that they do and spends a lot of his spare time around their homestead on various 'honey-do' projects like building a cattery or just supporting Leanne with the same mindset of a frugal lifestyle.
Leanne has had a blog here for a LONG time, but recently deleted it and has had to start over again, so many of her wonderful posts are gone, but there is still a lot to share with you today. Leanne grows many vegetables in her own garden, composts and also has to cook many special foods for her son who has a lot of food allergies. Her family breeds cats and she almost always has a litter that she is tending to. The family also has animals on their homestead including sheep and chickens. All of this takes a LOT of time and I often wonder how she gets it all done. Well, she can because she is one of those people who doesn't need a lot of sleep. Leanne is often up at 3-4am starting her day (she aims to go to bed between 9-11pm or so, but each day is different, she tells me)! She is an avid quilter and book reader, too.
There are so many great entries by Leanne that I hope you'll visit At The Good Life and leave a comment letting her know that you stopped by!
I have to say that many of Amy's posts make me think, so I've decided to highlight her blog, Home Sweet Simple Home. When I went to check her archives, I found that she's been blogging here for over TWO years ... December 28, 2005 was her first post to be exact and she introduced her family a few posts later. Amy's blog is a great compilation of personal thoughts, recipes, homeschooling adventures and ponderings on her faith. And no matter what she is going through, Amy always sounds so upbeat and positive about things.
Check out some of her posted recipes - Caramel Apple Oatmeal, Amy's Amazing Makinaw-style Fudge, Country Salisbury Steak, Bologna Burgers, and Ballard Biscuits - these are just a few of her many shared recipes. Honestly, every month of archives has at least one recipe to share - I just randomly chose some to highlight here! Amy has been posting her weekly menus pretty regularly and tries to stick to a weekly budget of $40-50 ... you can see some of her menus at these links - June 2007, June 2007 #2, August 2007, and her most recent menu - January 2008 (she has her menus posted every week - I randomly chose a few to highlight). I am very inspired by reading through these posts and think I'm going to spend some time gathering them all together in one place so that I can learn how to reduce my food bill a little further! Amy even took time to answer some questions that were left on her blog - read her answers and learn more about how she does what she does!
Amy could really use our prayers right now with regards to a lawsuit they are involved in. I just love her attitude about what is going on in her life ... you can't read this post without saying "Amen!" Amy has sooooo much to read on her blog that I can't even begin to list it all here! I know that I am going to be back to visit her archives very, very soon ... stop by her blog and say hi sometime. I can guarantee you that you'll be back to visit her again!
I tell you what ... it is soooo hard to choose a blogger to feature each week. I wish that I had time each day to feature someone because there are so many great blogs out there. This week, I'd like to introduce you to Gloria of "No Place Like Home." Here is what Gloria has written in her Profile, "Welcome to our family's blog! Thanks for stopping in and reading about our family, our faith and our farm. We have been blessed with 10 beautiful children, and enjoy the peace & simple pleasures of country living. We love the Lord & are thankful for our daily blessings. We hope you enjoy the photos & writings . Please feel free to drop us a line! The photo above (Kris's note: the one currently on her blog) is of our beloved homestead ~ after one of our first snows! May you be blessed! "
Gloria began blogging here (again!) in April 2007. Her family lives in a beautiful farm house (yes, that is her home at the top of her blog!) and they are in the process of renovating it - see some pictures here, here, and her new schoolroom here. I found some other great pictures of her home and the items within it - I am SOOOOOO jealous ... linen storage, her old dresser, vintage writing desk, bookshelf, and look at these 1898 lightning rods they had on their roof! You can find more wonderful pictures of her homestead by clicking through her archives. I think you'll find her "10 Reasons Why I Love Country Living" a sweet read!
Gloria and her husband have adopted several children and you can read all of her posts on this in her "heart for adoption" category - you can see pictures of their adopted daughter and sons here (scroll through the page). I have to say that I just love this picture of her daughter getting her wishes fulfilled on her birthday ... take a peek! And here is a lovely picture of BOTH of her daughters in their old-fashioned dresses, a beautiful picture of all of her "little women." and, finally, a picture of all of her children.
Welcome back to our Featured Blogger highlight of the week!! I've noticed Chas' blog - My Cup Runneth Over - for a few weeks now. Here is a very adorable picture of her. I think that she looks so happy here!
Here is how Chas describes her own blog, "My name is Chas and here you will find my thoughts, my ideas and my accomplishments of my life as a Christian wife to my Sweetheart of many years, and as a Homeschooling Moma to my 4 beautiful blessings. We are making the most out of what God has abundantly blessed us with! Truly, My Cup Runneth Over... " She started blogging here at HomesteadBlogger on March 1, 2007 with this post, "Homesteading is something I have dreamed of for a while now and little by little we are making our way, and inch by inch it is becoming a reality! I live on a fairly small piece of land at the moment but we are in process of acquiring more of the land that connects to ours soon." She went on to talk about building a goat barn and then how that had to be postponed. She did eventually get seven chickens and a rabbit - eventually, she even found a nest of eggs!
She has such a great variety of posts plus she's very creative and shares some great frugal ideas for gift-giving. You can meet Chas' family (see some more adorable photos here, too!) and also get a recent peek into her homeschool. Chas is working hard to stay within her set budget, but look at the beautiful gifts that she has created for some little girls recently - here and here. Be sure and check out these links also - an iPod cover and some cross-stitching, dresses for her girls, and some curtains that she made for her brother. Now, I wish that I had learned to sew a long time ago! Chas is also a yard saler and found some great finds last summer. She has also shared some delicious recipes lately, too ... S'more Brownies and Whole Wheat Stuffed Crust Pizza. They both look delicious! And here are some of her Christmas recipes that you can save for next year!
I could go on and on linking to her posts, but I'll leave you with this ... to learn more about Chas, check out all of her archived posts .... she has so much to share with you!
I had a lot of fun reading the Funny Homestead entries. I decided to award the free issue of New Harvest Homestead e-Newsletter to ElCloud though for her Basement Critters entry. Partly because it was so funny and partly because it reminded me of my own funny story.
My husband had a teenage niece who, even though she grew up in the country, was pretty citified through and through. One day her dad came home to see her with a little animal wrapped up in a towel that she had *rescued* out in the yard. She thought she had found an orphaned baby squirrel.
Her dad, however, had to tell her that what she was actually holding was a RAT! LOL!
Don't you just love the crazy things that happen when you're living out in the country?!
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They are a lovely family and I am so thankful that the Lord crossed our paths those some 5+ years ago! (wow can you believe it has been that long?) 
I have to say that many of Amy's posts make me think, so I've decided to highlight her blog, 
