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Making a Home

This week has been a little rough, as I haven't been feeling well. It's hard trying to run a home while being sick. One of the hardest parts is keeping the kids on task. If I'm sitting around a lot because I don't feel good, they want to sit around a lot. If we're all just sitting around the house, not working, it makes for a very messy house.

So on bad days, I just concentrate on keeping the kids on task, meals and dishes. That doesn't mean I even accomplish that small list, but I try. And pray that I feel better soon. :)

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What did you do last week to make your house a home?

Where we share all aspects of Making a Home. Share your posts about homemaking ideas, recipes, crafts, decorating, cleaning tips, basically anything that has to do with caring for a home and family.

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

There are so many things I want to do, but I don't have time! So many things I want to crochet, knit, sew, craft, cook and bake.

I guess I'll just keep doing a little here and a little there, besides the cooking. lol There'll be time for more crafting when the kids are older. I did find the time and energy to try two new recipes last week. Check out the gluten free banana bread recipe linked below. It's awesome!

Last week, we worked most of the evenings getting everything ready for a clothes giveaway at church. We fill our church's fellowship hall with donated clothes, shoes, linens and other household items, and toys for the community to come and get for free. We had 51 people come in 2 hours time on Saturday morning. Not our best showing, but a decent turn out considering it was pouring the rain and storming the whole time.

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What did you do last week to make your house a home?

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

We stopped at an antique store recently and found this awesome food mill set. We didn't get it that day as we were fresh out of cash. :) So my husband stopped Saturday and picked it up. We paid $30. for the set.

4 piece set

That may seem like a lot. However, before we purchased it, I checked prices online. A new one, with only one of the one of the cone inserts was about $30. Some places charged even more. Have you noticed that metal items purchased recently are not as strong as metal pieces made years ago? The metal items, such as colanders, seem flimsier now. And since this one came with 2 cones, I feel we got a good deal.

Small cone

I can't wait for our tomatoes to be ready for harvest so I can make some awesome tomato sauce. :)

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

Making a Home - Macaroon Fail

I had some fresh coconut left that no one was eating. So I decided to make something with it. Since it's Passover, I had to find a recipe without leaven.

I came across this recipe for Macaroons. Only 5 ingredients! Coconut, sugar, egg whites, vanilla & salt.

First I had to grate my coconut. The grater blade on my food processor broke, and grating all those pieces of coconut by hand did not sound appealing in the least. So I put all the pieces in the food processor and processed until small pieces. It worked great.

I put the dough in the fridge to cool for about 30 minutes, although the recipe wasn't clear on chilling the dough.

Instead of making cubes or pyramids like the recipe called for, I just spooned them out and slightly flattened them.

The recipe said if your pans were well seasoned, you could get away without using the parchment paper. Since I didn't have any and my pans are well seasoned, I just baked them on the pans.

After baking, I tried to take the cookies off the pan. They stuck to the spatula, and fell apart. So I tried leaving them on the pan for a few minutes.

When I came back, they were firmly stuck to the pan. I had to work at getting them off the pan.

So , my first attempt to make macaroons was a fail. They were, however, delicious. We ate all the crumbs. lol

Failure in the kitchen is important. How else do you come up with really yummy new recipes? Besides, it lets the kids see that I can mess stuff up, too. And gives us all something to laugh at. While we're eating the crumbs. lol

Visit the website for the recipe for macaroons.

These are definitely worth making. I do suggest using the parchment, though! lol

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

For more tips and recipes, visit:

Making a Home

Homemaker Monday

Market Yourself Monday

Reasons to Skip Housework

Mommy D's Kitchen

Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays,

Tasty Tuesday

Tuesdays at the Table

Domestically Divine Homemaking Link-up

Made From Scratch

What's on the Menu Wednesday

What's Cooking Wednesday

Whatever Goes Wednesday

What's Cooking Wednesday

Homemaking Link Up

Works For Me Wednesday

Whassup Wednesday

Deals and Dishes

The Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life as Mom

What's on Your Plate?

Cooking Thursday

Thrilling Thursday

Frugal Food Thursday

Friday Food

Sweets For a Saturday

Spotlight Yourself

Just Something I Whipped Up

Making a Home- Resurrection Rolls

We have been making these rolls for years now. I don't even remember how long, but it seems like they have always been part of our Easter celebration. Since we started celebrating Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we can no longer eat these on Easter. In fact, last year, these rolls were the most missed aspect of our former Easter Celebrations. So this year, I made them before Passover. The kids were so happy!

Resurrection Rolls

1 roll Refrigerated Crescent Roll dough, in the tube
8 marshmallows
2 TBS melted butter
4 TBS sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

We never measure. In fact, I, personally, have not made these in awhile, as the kids take over and want to do it all themselves. Leftover butter and cinnamon sugar can be used on toast, so we don't mind if there are leftovers.

Combine the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl. To assemble, separate the crescent roll dough.

Dip a marshmallow into the melted butter, then into the cinnamon sugar.

Place onto the crescent roll. Seal the edges of the crescent roll securely.

If they are not sealed well, the marshmallow will leak out onto the cookie sheet while baking.

Bake according to package directions.

As you can see, some of ours opened while baking. That's ok, they are still delicious!

So yummy!

You can tell the Easter story while assembling these rolls, that is, in fact, why they are called Resurrection Rolls. As your assembling the rolls, tell the kids that the marshmallow represents Jesus. The melted butter and the cinnamon sugar represent the oil and spices they anointed Jesus with. The crescent roll represents the tomb. After cooking, the empty roll represents the empty tomb.

My kids would actually eat these everyday, they are that good. Everyone that I have served these to, loves them. You will be glad you tried them, even if it's not around Easter time when you make them.

Making a home for my family is very important to me and I'm always looking for tips and ideas.

So, link up your posts, and let's all support each other in making our homes better for our families.

Please provide a link back to me. A text link is fine. Of course, family friendly posts only.

For more tips and recipes, visit:

Making a Home

Homemaker Monday

Market Yourself Monday