Creative Christian Mama

Raising Healthy Families: Natural Living in a Regular Family

Justyn — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:24 +0000

Welcome back to the Raising Health Families series, join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

Written by Sara from Your Thriving Family

Many of us are trying to eat real food and get back to natural products, for what we believe to be the best for our families. The wall we sometimes hit, unfortunately, can be our well-meaning and loving extended family.

How do you continue along your journey and keep the peace with the extended family? Natural Living in a Regular Family, is about finding the balance and putting relationships first. Click on over for finding the grace in what goes in and on your family.

As a thank you gift to all my subscribers, I'd like to offer my new Guide to Buying Produce in Season. It's a pretty, FREE printable that [...]

As a thank you gift to all my subscribers, I'd like to offer my new Guide to Buying Produce in Season. It's a pretty, FREE printable that you can keep in your purse to refer to when you're out shopping.

How to Make Pain Relief Salve

Justyn — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:58 +0000

*This salve is available for purchase in my on-line store!*

We went on our first hike of the spring this past weekend and I can tell you, this salve works! The day after our hike I had shin splints and very sore shoulders (from carrying our 16-month-old on them for part of the hike), so we decided to test out my new salve recipe. I put the salve on my left shin splint and my left shoulder, then I rubbed my right shin splint and right shoulder for the same amount of time, but without the salve. I didn’t want the short massage to skew the test results.

About 20 minutes after applying the salve, my left shin and shoulder began to feel a bit better. Within an hour, they felt almost completely normal! By the next morning, my entire left side was pain-free, [...]

Laughing Together: Choosing to be joyful & thankful in marriage

Justyn — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:48 +0000

Image courtesy of [imagerymajestic] / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Every couple has their own unique set of difficulties, trials and stresses. Too often we allow those things to come between us, rather than letting God use them to strengthen our marriages.We get impatient with each other, we forget to speak in love, sometimes we even begin to see each other as the problem. The stress builds and our marriages suffer.

Read the rest my post over at A Biblical Marriage!

As a thank you gift to all my subscribers, I'd like to offer my new Guide to Buying Produce in Season. It's a pretty, FREE printable that you can keep in your purse to refer to when you're out shopping.

Marriage: Have an Adventure Together Establishing New Holiday Traditions Ten Tips From Our Ten Years of Marriage

Weekend Whatever Link-up (5/11)

Justyn — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:28:59 +0000

We hope you enjoy all the great posts we get to see here every week and will come back again next week as well! If you join the linky party please be sure to link back to the hostess in your post

We’ve just added a new way to help promote all of you lovely ladies who come link up and read with us each weekend! Come follow the Weekend Whatever Favorites Pinterest board. We do a featured post on the blog each week, but this will be a handful of top picks from all four of us.

A place for sharing your best of Healthy Recipes, (no refined white flour/sugar, artificial ingredients – keeping in the spirit of transitioning to REAL, WHOLE FOODS), Marriage, Parenting, Frugality, Homemaking, Homesteading, Crafting, Christianity or where ever else your heart has taken you.

Hosting are: Sara at A Joyful Mother Joanie at [...]

Raising Healthy Families: Stocking Your Natural First Aid Kit for Summer

Justyn — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:05 +0000

Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series! Join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

Written by Krissa Jeldy of More Than Mundane

Summer is right around the corner and now is the perfect time to start planning and preparing your natural first aid kit for summer. Discover safe and effective ways to heal sunburn, relieve bug bites, and care for cuts and scrapes. Head on over to More Than Mundane to learn how to prepare a natural first aid kit for summer.

Raising Healthy Families Series Intro Raising Healthy Families: Turning your Power On {Chiropractic Care for Families} Raising Healthy Families: You need these supplements

Overcoming Infertility: My Story

Justyn — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:00:17 +0000

Like most women, I assumed that I would use birth control pills until we were “ready” to have kids, then immediately become pregnant when I went off the pill. Like many women, I discovered it is seldom that easy. (Read about my journey through infertility over at Modern Alternative Pregnancy!)

Pumpkin’s Birth Story: Part 1 Babykins’ Birth Story Pumpkin’s Birth Story: Part 2

Spiritual Growth for Mamas and Munchkins {plus a FREE gift from me!!}

Justyn — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00:30 +0000

I’ve shared a recipe from one of the ebooks in The Ultimate Homemaking Ebook Bundle *this sale is now over* (drinking chocolates- do NOT miss this recipe!!), I’ve told you about how I will be using tons of the ebooks to help me get organized (not just belongings, but organizing time, priorities, my blog and my small business!) and now I’m going to go into some inspiring ebooks in this bundle that are geared towards spiritual growth!

Today is the last day for the ebook bundle, so if you’re wanting to order, don’t miss the deadline. Look at the bottom of this post for information about the *free gift* for those ordering through my link, today!

Spiritual Growth For Kiddos

I can’t tell you how excited I am about these ebooks! My eldest girl just turned five and my youngest is 17 months. I’ve been wanting to find [...]

Weekend Whatever Link-up (5/3)

Justyn — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:43:27 +0000

We hope you enjoy all the great posts we get to see here every week and will come back again next week as well! If you join the linky party please be sure to link back to the hostess in your post

Hosting are: Sara at A Joyful Mother Joanie at [...]

Raising Healthy Families: Go Play in the Dirt! It’s Good for Your Health

Justyn — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:59 +0000

Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series! Join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

By Susan Vinskofski of learningandyearning.

Did you realize that our health is intimately connected to soil? It plays a role in our mental health as well. Read learningandyearning’s Go Play in the Dirt! It’s Good for your Health to learn more about a very special bacteria found in soil which boosts serotonin in our brains. The post has lots of ideas for getting dirty, too! As if you needed help with that.

Raising Healthy Families: Turning your Power On {Chiropractic Care for Families} Raising Healthy Families: You need these supplements Raising Healthy Families: Essential Oils Instead of Surgery

Help For Getting Organized

Justyn — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:23:48 +0000

Life is full of different seasons and different demands. Sometimes my life is quiet and time moves slowly. At other times, I’m scrambling to keep up with it all. Right now is one of those busy times for me. I have a husband, two little girls, this blog and my new online store to balance and manage. On top of all the daily demands, we moved from Ohio to South Dakota last December, sold our house in Ohio last month and my hubby has been settling into his new job. We’re planning to move to a new rental when our lease is up here in two months, then we’ll be saving to buy our own place.

It’s been crazy these last six months and I’ve really been struggling to get and stay organized. I’m not just talking about organizing things, although that is certainly part of it. I need [...]