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 had thought about just linking up to last year’s post and adding my new stuff to this one, […] Read more…
Fall Into Reading Challenge 2010
Well considering all my nesting lately, I decided that I really need to participate in this challenge. I have SOOOOOO many books to read that I have to or would like to review before the baby comes. Books I NEED to read and review before the baby comes: I also have several books that I’ve […] Read more…
Book Review – The Church History ABC’s
I was lucky enough to have another opportunity to review a children’s book for Crossway. This time they sent a copy of The Church History ABC’s: Augustine and 25 other heroes of faith by Stephen J Nichols & Ned Bustard. This is a lovely hardcover book with very high quality pages. I love that about […] Read more…
Recipe: Homemade Chocolate Syrup
Oh, yes I did! I had completely intended to make this one of my baby freezer list recipes, but I was craving chocolate milk and made this and had to share. It’s from Alton Brown (of Good Eats fame) and so of course it’s good! I won’t tell you that one year Bones bought me […] Read more…
Devotion to Duty
Image by Lawrence OP via Flickr It’s really very fitting that I have scheduled this post for this month. I was doing a very good job after my retreat this summer and had even begun the process for becoming Consecration to Jesus through Mary. But I missed a key piece of finishing the consecration process […] Read more…
Finished Objects Friday – August edition
Nope, my sewing list hasn’t been worked on at all. I still haven’t gotten my sewing machine working yet. I got the thread to stop snapping by replacing the needle (which I’ve never done), but I screwed with the tension before trying that and now I think I have to get that piece working again. […] Read more…
Book Review – Making Waves
Making Waves was a good first novel by Lorna Seilstad. It’s the story of a spunky young lady in proper society who is thrilled to discover that her family will be spending the summer at Lake Manawa, Iowa in 1895. She’s been courting a man named Roger who is agonizingly boring and in true modern […] Read more…
Official “Stock the Freezer” List!
Oh my, it’s countdown time. I have just about 2 months left (give or take a week or two). As much as I’d like to, I don’t think that canning is happening this fall. I have enough to do — just take a look at this list. And this is only the cooking list! Breakfast […] Read more…
Artists & Composers Notebooking Pages
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I had set up my Artist & Composers schedule for my preschooler. I finally got around to finding or making notebooking pages for them and wanted to share them with you. First, the set I bought: Famous Composers Notebooking Pages I found these online for free and […] Read more…
Book Review – Handbook for Catholic Mom’s
Lisa M. Hendey, creator of CatholicMom.com, has written a lovely, all-encompassing book called The Handbook for Catholic Moms: Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul. This book is divided into 22 bite-sized (most 10 pages or less) chapters offering encouragement, stories from other Catholic Moms, some “homework” to help improve, and web resources for further […] Read more…