Making a House a Home

Did you read 31 Days to Clean by Sarah Mae? Were you wanting more challenges?? If so, you are in luck!!
 
Jennifer Ross of Renewing Housewives has written a follow up entitled Encouraging Challenges- The Month After 31 Days to Clean. Jennifer said she enjoyed Sarah Mae's ebook so much that she wanted MORE!! So Sarah Mae encouraged Jennifer to write the follow up. And she did just that!!

Even if you did not read 31 Days to Clean, Jennifer's ebook, Encouraging Challenges, is STILL a must have!  SO many inspiring words and helpful hints! 

Encouraging Challenges is chock full of more encouragement and more cleaning challenges for you!! And the great thing is, I get to host a giveaway!!!


Here's how to enter....


1)Be sure and leave a comment below and I'll enter you in the drawing for this FABULOUS ebook!!


2)Share a cleaning tip that's been helpful for you and I'll enter your name twice!!!


3) Go visit Jennifer's blog to see all the wonderful ideas she has to spur us homemakers on in our roles!!  Be sure and let me know that you have visited her!!


BUT WAIT!!! IT GETS EVEN BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jennifer's husband, Jason Ross, also has a new ebook out. It's entitled Nurturing a Godly Wife. Jason has included tips and analogies to help our husbands understand us wives a little better. Always a WONDERFUL thing!!  And you can win THIS, too!!



Don't forget to enter! And be sure and tell your friends!! Both of these ebooks are certain to encourage and grow you and your family!  And even if your name isn't drawn, you can still purchase both of these ebooks through the links I've provided- Encouraging Challenges and Nurturing a Godly Wife.

The deadline to enter will be 12:00 midnight EST this Thursday, August  4th, EST.  I will announce the winner on Fruiday, August 5th.

Congratulations to Mrs. Pear!!!! She is the winner of the book A Life That Says Welcome by Karen Ehman!!!!

Mrs. Pear, please email me as soon as possible with your mailing address so that Mrs. Ehman can send you your autographed copy of her wonderful book!!!

Congratulations!!!!!

Update: kimlessig, please email me by this Sunday, December 27th, so that I can get your mailing address. If I do not hear from you by then, I will need to draw another name.

Mmmmmmm... nothing warms me up better than a bowl full of soup, stew or chowder. Today's recipe isn't just any old regular corn chowder, however. It's from an awesome book I just finished entitled A Life That Says Welcome by Karen Ehman- a book about hospitality and welcoming others into your home and your life.

Mrs. Ehman kindly shared some of her favorite recipes in her book. Corn Chowder is just one of them and it is DELICIOUS!! All four of us LOVED it!!! Let me get to the recipe...

Corn Chowder
In a large pot combine:
4 cups chicken stock (or 4 cups water with bouillon cubes to taste)
6 cups diced, peeled Yukon Gold potatoes
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup diced celery

Cook over medium heat for 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Then add:
3 T butter
1-2 cups finely chopped leftover ham
1 1/2 cups leftover corn
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese

Just before serving, add:
8 ounces sour cream

Thin with a little milk, if needed. Stir well. Serves 8-10.

YUMMMMMM!!!! Warm and delicious AND my family loved it. What can get better???

Okay... so there's the recipe.... NOW for the GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For everyone that leaves a comment before SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 20th, before 8:00 pm EST, you get ONE entry.

If you blog about this on your blog, too, then you can be entered TWICE!!!!!

What is the giveaway???? Mrs. Ehman is graciously giving an AUTOGRAPHED copy of her wonderful book, A Life That Says Welcome!!!!







Y'all will be so encouraged and challenged with this book! I love it and I am sure y'all will, too!!!!

Please enter right away!! Sunday night will be here before know it!!

My friend, Melissa, is having her first giveaway and it's a CUTIE!! Y'all be sure and head over to Desiring To Be a Godly Woman and register for her baby bracelet that she's giving away! Whether it's for your daughter, granddaughter, niece, sister, cousin or next-door-neighbor, just sign up!! Hurry, though, the cut-off is Sunday, July 19!!

Congratulations, Steph!!!!

Steph said...
Congrats on cuttin' the pop! I just recently
cut it too but....then just this week we started adding a room on to our house
and so we purchased pop for all the men who were helping biuld and low and
behold I have been drinking like one a day!!!! I can't believe it! So I really
need to get back to the water and tea. I think this product would really help(;

You are now the proud owner of a graviTEA Water Purifier with 6 filters!!! I KNOW you are going to LOVE it!!!

I've emailed you for your information and Adagio will get it out to you as soon as I get them your mailing information. (They are AWESOME when it comes to shipping, by the way!!).

You'll be enjoy fresh, clean, filtered water before you know it!!!

Wooohoooo!!! I am officially celebrating my one year anniversary of being Diet Coke free!!!!!


Some of y'all may remember my post last year with a photo of my very last Diet Coke. Boy, it was HARD to share about giving it up. Once you put it on a blog, gosh, MAJOR accountability sets in, doesn't it? :) But here I am, one year later, and no Diet Coke has been consumed since then!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!! I know the Lord helped me stop drinking it- do you know that I did not have ONE craving for it? Not even a headache, either!!


Y'all know I have to celebrate with y'all, right? And since I can't very easily have all of you over for a big piece of cake (oooh, that WOULD be fun, wouldn't it??), I would LOVE to have a giveaway!!!!!


Okay, my first favorite drink in the world is water!! MMMM!!! And my second favorite drink in the world is tea (specially Adagio!!!)! So what better giveaway can I have than to somehow combine my two favorite drinks together, right????? So here we go..........






To celebrate my one year of being Diet Coke free, I (along with Adagio) want to giveaway the graviTEA Water Filtration with 6 filters.



Y'all be sure and check it out! Not only is this great for tea drinkers to have better tasting tea, it is perfect for ANYONE that drinks water and is concerned about filtering it!!


Here's the scoop...


1) You can enter ONCE by leaving a comment here on my blog.

2) You can enter TWO MORE TIMES by sharing about this giveaway on YOUR blog.


Oh, and y'all, you do not need to be in the continental US to win. I will make sure that this wonderful graviTEA Water Purifier finds you anywhere in the world. :)

The contest starts today and runs until Friday, March 27th, at 8:00 PM EST. I will announce the winner on Saturday, March 28th.

*** And don't forget--- sign up for a $5 gift certificate from Adagio Teas!!!! Check out my sidebar near the top!!!!!

Congratulations to Smart But Not Wise!!! You are the winner of the wonderful starter tea set from Adagio Teas!!!

Please email me at the ups 1 at gmail dot com and let me know your mailing information!!!

I know you will love the flavored teas that you chose!!!

**This post will stay at the top until Friday, October 24th**

I am VERY excited to announce a wonderful GIVEAWAY!!


As many of y'all know, I am in LOVE with Adagio Tea! I've talked about their starter set, the fact that their tea has been my new love since I stopped drinking Diet Coke, AND they recently acknowledged my, ahem, apparent addiction love of their incredible teas.

Not only is their tea TO DIE FOR, but they have this wonderful teapot called ingenuiTea that I have decided I cannot live without. It allows the tea leaves to move around in the hot water and gives you a much more flavorful tea. Mmmmm.

Anyway, I, along with Adagio Tea, would like to give away one of the starter sets!!!! And I am SO very excited about it!


What do you need to do to enter?

1) Go to Adagio Tea's website and look at their starter set. They offer starter sets in black, green, flavored or herbal tea.

2) Leave a commment here stating which of the starter sets you would like to win (black tea, green tea, flavored tea or herbal tea) and you will be entered ONE time in the drawing. (You do NOT have to have a blog to enter nor do you have to live in the United States)

3) Blog about this giveaway on your blog and I will enter your name TWO MORE TIMES (for a total of 3 possible entries).


The deadline for entering the giveaway will be Friday, October 24th at 8:00 EST. I will announce the winner on Saturday, October 25th.

Good luck everyone!!