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      • Easy Sweet Mustard Hot Ham and Cheese
      • Chocolate Cappuccino Muffins
      • Cheesy Slow Cooker Cauliflower Soup
      • Perfect Summer Fruit Trifle
      • Grilled Summer Vegetable Medley
      • Chewy Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Granola Cookies
      • Best Summer Blueberry Cherry Cobbler
      • Summer Mint Lemonade
    • Household Tips and Tricks
      • Conquering the Little Boy Bathroom Smell
      • For the ADD Housewife — The Trick of 13
      • The BEST Tip for Taming the Laundry Beast
      • 6 Packing Tips for Long Road Trips
      • Married to a Messy
      • The Best Shower Cleaning Tip Ever
      • 5 Household Cleaning Products I Make Myself
      • 5 Cleaning Tools Every Woman Needs
    • Home Projects and Crafts
      • My Kitchen Table Makeover
      • George Washington Carver and the Holt Family Peanut Experiment
      • Container Gardening for the Horticulturally Challenged
      • Do-It-Yourself Book Snowballs
      • Mod-Podge and Scrapbook Paper Bookcase Makeover
      • Do-It-Yourself Slip and Slide
      • DIY Mason Jar Drinking Glasses with Lids
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My New Kentucky Home

A blog about faith and family, home and homeschooling.

Five Ways to Make Visitors to Your Church Feel Welcome

January 14, 2016 by My New Kentucky Home

  Have you ever wondered what it would be like if they did online reviews of churches in the same way they do of restaurants and shops? Scour the internet and you'll actually find a few, but reviews of this type tend to be emotionally or politically-charged rants more often than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christ, Christianity, Church, church growth, kindness, Uncategorized

Taking New Year Inventory of Your Homeschool

January 12, 2016 by My New Kentucky Home

There’s something about the New Year that makes you want to reevaluate your entire life:  Your relationships.  Your priorities.  Your diet.  Your checkbook.  Your sock drawer. But what about your homeschool?  While I realize January isn’t the start of the school year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschool, homeschooling, January, January goals, New Years, organization, Uncategorized

7 Things Every Mom Should Do More This Year

January 7, 2016 by My New Kentucky Home

Whether you're a resolution-maker or not, most of us can look upon a new year and think of at least 100 things we would like to do more and do better in the year ahead of us.   There are a few things I think every mom should do a little more in 2016.  I need to do them, and I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: mom, Motherhood, New Year, New Year's resolutions, resolutions, Uncategorized

Why I Don’t Read My Bible Through Every Year

December 31, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

Sometimes there are posts I'm hesitant to write because I fear how they might be misconstrued.  Believe me, it isn't hard to write something one way and have readers take it quite another. And never... I mean NEVER would I want to do anything to upset good, established devotional habits, or to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, devotions, New Years, personal devotions, Read the Bible Through in a Year, Uncategorized

Behind the Scenes in Bethlehem — A Christmas Message to You and Your Family

December 24, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

I wasn’t there to see the place for myself, of course, but I would guess the Christmas card portraits of Bethlehem on the night of Jesus’ birth are probably…well…questionably accurate.  I mean, they always present such a perfect little Judean town: Clean. Quiet. Peaceful. Charmingly aglow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bethlehem, Christ, Christmas, Christmas letter, Christmas message, Uncategorized

A Dickens Christmas Dinner

December 17, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." Recognize that?  Probably not, because it's not one of the more commonly quoted passages from A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Christmas Carol, British food, British recipes, Christmas, Christmas celebrations, Christmas traditions, Dickens, Dickens Christmas, Uncategorized

Testimonies to the Birth of Christ: Witness Accounts from the Nativity Story {Free Printable Script}

December 3, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

"I should know what happened better than anyone.  Why, Mary and I grew up together!  We’ve been friends for as long as I can remember!  And so of course I was one of the first to hear the whole story. Honestly, it’s been pretty scandalous.  A young girl expecting a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christmas, Christmas drama, Christmas monologues, Christmas play, Christmas program, Christmas skit, Nativity, Uncategorized

Create a Thanksgiving Tree

November 19, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

I sort of dropped the ball this year when it comes to great fall projects.  We always do autumn crafts and art activities and we try to venture out for pumpkin-picking and other fall fun. But this autumn was packed with more weddings and funerals, travel and sickness, and overall BUSYNESS than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blessings, crafts, giving thanks, gratitude, Homeschool, thank you, thankful heart, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving crafts, Thanksgiving project, Uncategorized

7 Tips for Raising Kids to Reject the Christian Faith

October 22, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

Yeah, I'm a Christian and, yes, you read that title right. You see, aside from what the Bible tells us clearly, I can't offer great insight into what it takes to raise devoted, lifelong followers of Christ.  I don't even have my own kids raised yet, so fool-proof advice from me on how to bring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian parenting, Christianity, Christians, discipling, homeschooling, parenting, Uncategorized

Ideas for the Space-Themed Party or VBS

September 17, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

Space never really interested me.  I mean, I thought stars were pretty and all that, but I always viewed space as this vast black nothingness.  And what's so interesting about nothingness?  But then I began studying it, both in our homeschool and in preparation for a kids' event at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: decorating, DIY, outer space, party decorating, space-theme, Uncategorized, VBS

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