Ready to do a little bit of Spring Cleaning?  The kind of cleaning that doesn’t involved dust and dirt? 

Katie at Kitchen Stewardship is hosting a 10 week rotating carnival called Spring Cleaning:  Get the Junk Out.  Beginning March 23, 10 different bloggers will be writing about different topics that may interest you…encouraging all of us to “get the junk out”. 

 Here are the dates, bloggers and topics:

Give some thought to what you know about clearing out each of these subjects.  Start planning now to write posts and link up with each blogger each week.  Let’s all share what we know about Getting the Junk Out!

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I just mentioned Swagbucks and how GREAT they are and why you should sign up the other day. 

In case you haven’t signed up yet…they are celebrating their Second Birthday with a special promotion!   

Sign up now and you’ll start out with SIXTY swagbucks – a great start! 

Sign up here using the code:  HEAVENLYSWAG1 to receive the bonus swagbucks!

Then, start earning free stuff (my lame word for books, gifts, groceries…and other um…stuff). 

With the whole fiasco of my site going down and needing to switch to a new server this week…I lost ALL my subscribers.  SO, SO SAD.

Subscribers….come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!

If you were a subscriber, in order to receive my updated posts in your reader or by email again, you’ll need to re-subscribe!!

Sorry to be annoying…but just so that I can catch all of you….I’ll be saying this again and again for a while.  If you’ve already subscribed…just nod and smile and move on.

Thanks!

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Too many times during the past few months, my website server has gone down and made my site inaccessible for several hours at a time.  SO frustrating.

It happened again this week and long story short (and many high stress moments later)…it’s time to change servers.

The next few days may be iffy around here.  There’s a very good chance that the site will be down for a good two days or so while my webmaster switches me to a new server. 

Just wanted to give you the heads up so that if you come over and I’m  not here…say a little prayer for all of the behind the scenes stuff and then come check back soon!

HOPEFULLY after all of this is said and done, my webmaster and I will sleep a little easier and not worry that we’ll wake up to an inaccessible site…again. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding.  In the meantime…I’m going to try posting one more recipe real quickly before I go away for a little while.

Ooh, that being said, I’d better print off my menu plan and any recipes I may need while the site is down.  You too…if you have any plans to make my recipes in the next few days!! 

I almost forgot to remind you that the Funky Kitchen (and other stuff) sale is ending today.  Therefore…I am extending the sale for two more days. 

Take advantage of this sale through Sunday night, then really and truly it will be over! 

Head on over to the Shop…

There’s something that happens to me every year right after Christmas is over.  I feel the BIG need to CLEAN.

I made it exactly two days after Christmas this year before I began cleaning out toy boxes and shelves and closets…filling trash bag after trash bag of stuff to either give away or throw away. 

WHERE do we get all this stuff anyway?  And why is half of it broken?  And why is the other half of it under the couch where we can’t find it?  And why is there so much dirt and popcorn and brown apple cores hanging out with the stuff under the game room couch?  And why are so many of these toys not being used anymore?    And why are there so many cords tangled up near the videos?  And why AM I THE ONLY ONE CLEANING UP THIS MESS THAT I DIDN’T MAKE?!?!?  BOYS?!

Which (calmly) leads me to the New Year Sale.  Just in case you’re also feeling the need to clean.  And just in case you’d like some help encouraging your children…well…in any area of their lives that need some Christ-like encouragement.

Now through January 8:

• Do the Funky Kitchen ebook is on sale for $2.75 (to help you organize and clean your kitchen, and make it funky…aka…functional).
• All of the Kids Character Charts are on sale for $1.75 (to help you as you work with your kids in the areas they need encouragement and training).
• Fill ‘em Up! ebook is on sale for $3.00 (to inspire you to get your kids in the kitchen with you AND study God’s word with them at the same time).

I just pulled out MY OWN copy of Do the Funky Kitchen and followed all the steps.  I now have a clean fridge, my pantry is re-organized and wow, even the top of my refrigerator is CLEAN!  I now know where all of my measuring cups are and my jars all have a home.  It’s a happy day.

Take advantage of this New Year Sale! 
It lasts until Friday, January 8!

Yikes…my site was down ALL morning. 

I always struggle not to have a heart attack when I click on my site and it gives that horrible “FORBIDDEN” message.  Ick.  ‘Cause what if I accidentally clicked something I shouldn’t have and my site is gone forever?!?!?!

You’d think it would just politely say, “We’re so sorry but Laura’s site is down right now.  We’re working on it diligently.  Please take a moment to have a cup of hot cocoa, then come check back later.”

But no…it says, “FORBIDDEN.  How Dare You Try to Visit Heavenly Homemakers!!!!!”  or something like that.

Just so you know…anytime it says that…it is not a personal denial from me.  I always want you to come to Heavenly Homemakers.  Always. 

Thanks for your patience…if you did happen to visit this morning and were so sadly FORBIDDEN to enter. 

We’re back.  Click around to your heart’s content!

I figured that everyone else is having a Black Friday sale…so we should too!

The best part of this Black Friday sale is that  you don’t have to get up at three in the morning and wait in the cold for a door to open.  Shucks…you don’t even have to get out of your bathrobe if you don’t want to.  Shopping in pajamas is my kind of shopping!

So here’s the sale:  Friday, Saturday and Sunday (until 11:59 pm), every, every, every single item in the Heavenly Homemakers Shop is only THREE DOLLARS. 

Oh, a few exceptions:  Totally Tortillas ebook and the Kid’s Character Charts are all normally $2.95.  Those are on sale for $2.00 each. 

Head on over to the Heavenly Homemakers Shop and check it out!

Happy Shopping!

O.K.

I think we’re just about done with all the fixing and changing on the site for now.  Thanks for your patience this weekend!  (Those of you who are subscribers and are reading this from an email or a reader, you may want to click over and check things out!) 

What I’m most excited about with this new look is that finally, FINALLY…FINALLY my site is more organized.

Through the past two years my site has evolved and changed into a completely different creature from what it first started out to be.  While going through these changes, recipes just ended up wherever they ended up….new categories developed and hung out in left field.  The site became harder to navigate.  And for the love of all things chocolate and sane…when you need to find the fudgy brownie recipe…you NEED to find the fudgy brownie recipe. 

So now…when you scroll across the top menu above my header, you’ll find a drop-down menu under Recipes, Gardening and Preserving and Menu Planning.  Go ahead…go scroll across.  See the drop-down menu options? 

Then, when you click on any of those links, you’ll find a page that offers help in navigating each of those categories. 

For instance, if you leave your cursor on the Recipes link at the top, then scroll down and click on Bread and Breakfast…you’ll find a page with a link to ALL of my recipes that are bread and/or breakfast related.  You’ll also see other helpful links such as my “How to Make Homemade Bread” tutorial and “How to Make Sourdough Bread”.

I tried to organize information for you so that when you have questions about menu planning or gardening or you need a recipe, you can find it more easily.  (Good grief…I wanted to be able to find my own recipes more easily!!)

So, please spend some time looking around at all the new links at the top!  Click around and get a feel for how it all works.

If you have more ideas for how I can further organize information for you, please email me and offer your suggestion.  If it’s possible and will work with my site, I’ll try to work it in.  I want to make my site as user-friendly for you as I can.