Here Are Some More Nifty Little Hacks

 Here is a great traveling hack with kids. This is a traveling inflatable port a potty. This has saved us plenty of times on the road. I even carried it in a back pack when we were out some where that we couldn't get to a bathroom or stand in long lines at events to wait our turn. You can easily shield your little one by holding up a blanket around them for privacy. Close the back hatch of the vehicle for privacy. It is easy clean up also. You can line it with disposable liners, grocery sacks, puppy pee pee pads, a diaper or pull up. Then grab, wrap up and dispose of in a trash can.

Another neat way to fix homemade uncrustables 😁

You have to give these a try for easy grab and go breakfast ideas. 😋

This makes an awesome homemade yellow cake mix.

We watch for sales on meats all ths time. Whether it's chicken 🐔, pork 🐖 or beef 🐂, we shop the sales and buy in bulk. We bring it home and repackage into meal portions and vacuum seal the packages and place in our freezers. This has saved us alot of money on the grocery budget.  

Maybe some of these ideas will help you out. 

#momlife #Homesteading #homemaking #lifehacks #hacks #kitchenhacks

Tracy 

Keeper of the Home 

Nifty Home Ideas and Encouragement For Women

 Today I'd like to leave you with some encouraging words and throw in some nifty ideas for the home. 

This is an awesome idea for a plant stand. Go vertical.

Cute idea for fall 🍂 🍁

I have no clue whose garden this is or where it is, but it is awesome 🍓🍅🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🫛

I am so glad our boys 👦 know how to cook and clean. We made memories and they learned life skills that now help them in their own homes. Im working on the next generation. They will have the same memories and learn the same skills to take care of their homes and families. My work is not done yet. There will be more to come and the same will go.

I love having a prayer journal. Even if it takes 1, 2, or more years for them to be answered, it is a great joy, I mean the kind you want to shout from the roof top joy, when you get to go back and mark them as *ANSWERED*. HALLELUJAH Praise the Lord. Sometimes he answers in a different way, sometimes he answers it specifically just like you asked. Sometimes he just shows up and shows up in ways that just suprise you. He knows what he's doing. Never doubt that for one minute. Keep praying and keep pressing on. 🙏 

Don't let go of the hem of his garment. You grab it and hang on as tight as you can. 

The Prayer of Jabez is powerful.❤️💛💚💙🩵💜🤎📖

We are traveling at the moment because work had to come calling. I brought along a homemade loaf of bread 🍞 😋 and when we got to our destination, I made the best PBJ sandwich with some of my Mommas home canned muscadine jelly

Ladies, young girls, pray for a husband that will not even get mad when you back your truck into your front porch steps and knock them down. Instead he asks if you're OK first or did you get hurt. I swear this man God gave me is so patient. He saves me from my silly self sometimes 🤪 Yes, this actually happened before we left and yes we will have a project to do when we get back. But this proves that good men still exist. 😁😁🤣🤣

We really need this especially in today's world where society is trying to tell our young ladies and girls this. We need to get back to raising girls and young ladies as to how God intended.

Here are some encouraging posts to carry with you today. 

I hope everyone has a blessed day. 

Tracy

Keeper of the Home 

Happy Labor Day

 I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday today. Although there are some who still have to work today. 

A good day of rest is always necessary to the body, mind and soul. 

Work is also a blessing within itself. God gives us the ability and the knowledge to do what is necessary to provide for our families. Alot of people think of work as a burden and dread it. 

I always like the verse that says, 

I love to eat so therefore I'm going to work. My dear hubby is the provider of our home and he takes this role seriously.  His thoughts are, " it's not about me anymore, I have a family to take care of". 

As far as me, I take my role seriously too. I may not have a job outside the home now but I take care of my home and my family. I help put food on the table by growing and Preserving our food. In my younger days, I use to be in the working field and helped pay living expenses. So I have been on both sides. 

Work is just something that has to be done in order to survive. We had it made until the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. 

But God gave a way to still help us sustain our lives. We may have to labor and toil but I count it a blessing that I have a family to take care of and bless. 

I try not to see my work as a dread, hindrance, nuisance etc. I count it as joy. 

Dirty laundry means we have clothes to wear. Dirty dishes means we have food to eat. Thus also means dear hubby has provided these things with his own two hands by going to work. 

Let's try to have a better outlook on work from this day forward. 

Tracy

Keeper of the Home 

Quick Pickled Eggs Homemade Bread and More

 It has been a busy week. 

I'm trying to get caught up on things and wrap up Summer but I had to get over a sinus infection and double ear infection first and one granddaughter had strep throat. 

I was mostly on the couch with dear hubby taking care of me. But I'm over it except just a still stuffy nose. Seems like it doesn't want to leave me. 😕  But the home making must go on. 

I boiled some eggs and made some quick pickled eggs by just peeling them and dropping them into some pickle brine already from a jar of store bought pickles. Pretty clever huh? Grandkids live this trick. They love just plain boiled eggs as a quick snack too. 

I love to make refreshing sugar free lemonade for these last hot days of summer. Lemon juice, water and Stevia. 

Homemade bread is always a winner and made up a batch of sugar free strawberry jam again for dear hubby. 

Gathered the last of the okra and tomatoes and closing the garden because dear hubby and I are fixing to have to go on his fall work trip. 

School is definitely on a roll and testing already starting. I'm already for fall break. 

Those BER months start tomorrow and Apple season is first. Next year maybe the apple trees we planted will have alot of apples on then and I already see alot of things I'm going to do with them. 

September always kicks off our hunting with dove season and skeet shoots but over the past few years, our kids have gotten so busy living their grown lives that we have not done this for a while. I miss those days. As soon as dove season starts, you can literally hear the sounds. It's a big thing in our neck of the woods. 

We've got confirmed pregnancies in our cows and calves have been weaned. Pastures will be rotating in a few weeks. 

We had to travel for a funeral for my last Uncle. Now, it is just my momma left out of her immediate family. The decision was made to cremate because of transportation from across the US was outrageous.  Plans and permission was given to bury his ashes with his families cemetery where my PaPa and MaMa served as Pastor and Pastors wife.  His only daughter, my cousin, did an excellent job of planning, transporting and officiating the memorial and service. 

My momma is the baby of her family and misses them dearly. We all do. 

We've had an awesome summer and been able to get some projects done. That will be in other posts to share with you. 

Hope everyone has a safe and blessed and most of all, restful Labor Day weekend. 

Tracy 

Keeper of the Home 

Latest Videos on Our YouTube Channel

 We have alot of new videos on our channel from last week and this week. 😀 

Be sure to check them out. Dear hubby made another video all on his own.  He shows you how to take a pork belly and turn it into home Cured bacon

I was busy in the garden and had a ton of tomatoes to process so my video is another quick way I process tomatoes and turn them into pasta sauce for so many dishes. Dear hubby said this is his favorite out of all the other ways I have done them. So I guess we will be doing them this way from now on. 

Then I have a recipe where I am using canned biscuits as the star of the show. 

And if you have been following my Breadmaking for Beginners series, there is a new one today. You don't want to miss it.  4pm today. 

Thanks so much for following us on YouTube.  Hope you enjoy them. 

Tracy 

Keeper of the Home 

Easy Dollar Tree Crafts

 I have to show off some of my Mommas handy skills. My momma loves to craft and enjoys it so much. She may not love to cook but crafting is her thing. 

These items are all Dollar Tree items. 

She made cake stands and dip serving trays. 

She just used Epoxy and a hot glue gun. Isn't she clever. 

The dome cake cover is the only one I did. I bought a clear serving bowl that is in the wedding decorating section and used hot glue to glue to the bottom and make a handle for a cake cover. 

These come in real handy for parties, get togethers and family holiday meals. 

You can catch different patterns throughout the seasons and make seasonal table scapes. 

You can get creative and turn them different ways to make different trays and stands. 

These would also make great gift giving ideas. Perfect to get started now for the Holidays. 

If you are going to buy multiple quantities of these, you can order them directly on line from the Dollar Tree website and have them sent straight to your home without having to leave your home. 

If you would like to order from Dollar Tree directly,  here is their link to the website 

This is the end of August so it's not too early to get started. Christmas will be here before you know it. 

There are some other crafts from Dollar Tree you might be interested in. Last year I bought multiple dish towels and pot holders from the website. And I made Christmas gifts with them for each household in my family and extended family and even my neighbors. They loved them. 

Here is a video of what I made 

I hope I have given you some great ideas and inspiration for the upcoming holidays or just some cutsie things for you and your home. I hope most of all I have gave you some inspiration. 

Hope you enjoy and have fun. 

Tracy 

Keeper of the Home at 4D Farms 

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