Ready to Get Organized? (Exciting news for you!)

December 30, 2020 by Laura Leave a Comment

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Every year after Christmas I find myself ready to declutter and get organized for a fresh start. I tell myself that I’ll chill and enjoy the Christmas decorations all the way until January 1, but nope. I love Christmas, then it’s over and I’m like: CLEAN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

Who’s with me?

I was going to save this for a week or so, but I need it now and you might too. Soooooooo……

This fun and wonderful little packet comes at a perfect time!

The packet contains lovely printable pages to help you organize your kitchen and home life right now. I’ve already started using them and I love all they offer. My freezers are in much better shape and I know what’s in them so that I can meal plan better. My seven and five-year-olds (and even my two-year-old) have new chores on their fun new chart (found in the packet) that they are excited to tackle. Case in point:

I think you’ll enjoy and use this printable bundle as much as I am! The printables are simple, practical, fun, and all a part of the wonderful Heavenly Homemaker’s Club (where members have access to our eBooks, eCurriculum, menu planning resources, hundreds more printables, exclusive tips and posts and…).

There’s even better news!

This wonderful exclusive printable packet is just the first of many that we’ll be offering to our Heavenly Homemakers Club Members! We’ve decided to launch a brand new monthly printable surprise package which just makes our membership one step better. Every month, members will be given a brand new exclusive printable packet. This month’s is focused on home organization. What will next month bring? Just wait and see! Club members have so much to look forward to! Each month you can count on the printables being just like this – simple, practical, and fun!

Ready to join?!

What Club Members Enjoy…

You can read all about it here. But in short (if it’s possible to keep it short since it includes so much!!), our members get:

Access ALL of Heavenly Homemaker’s eBooks – anytime!
Access ALL of Heavenly Homemaker’s eCurriculum – anytime!
Access ALL of Heavenly Homemaker’s Printables – anytime!
Access 52 weeks of Simple Meals Planning Packets plus Meal and Snack Ideas Cheat Sheets, a Recipe Search Bar, and Menu Planners – anytime!
Access dozens of member-exclusive homemaking, kitchen, money-saving, family-life encouragement and tips – anytime!
Enjoy exclusive new eBooks, eCurriculum, printables, and content being added regularly.

Take advantage of our awesome membership offer and enjoy loads of incredible resources. Join us here —>

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

How to Make Perfect Hot Chocolate

December 27, 2020 by Laura 2 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Want to learn how to make Perfect Hot Chocolate? You’ll want to learn these “tricks” so you can enjoy a mug of this during holiday break with your family!

I am so thrilled to have a huge houseful right now! We’ve got five littles, four bigs, plus two amazing girlfriends. Our holiday time food shared together has been simple but fun. And since I’ve got more big people around to help with all the littles, I find my hands are a little freer to make special treats.

That’s where the Perfect Hot Chocolate comes in. Sure, Christmas is over. But the fun treats and the special drinks will keep on coming until school and work starts again!

Now, to make Perfect Hot Chocolate, I believe it takes three perfect recipes:

Not to worry, these are all easy and fast. (Do you even know me at all?)

The Hot Cocoa whisks together quickly on the stove. I whip cream in my Blendtec, which takes 25 beautiful seconds of effortless “work.” I often have Homemade Hot Fudge already in the fridge that we can warm up and drizzle into our hot cocoa. If not, I can make that quickly too.

The ingredients in all these recipes overlap with one another. Plus they are ingredients I always have on hand. Simple but special – that’s what I love about treating our family and guests to this Perfect Hot Chocolate!

Once you’ve got your three recipes made: 1) Fill a mug with hot cocoa. 2) Add a generous amount of whipped cream. 3) Drizzle hot fudge over the cream.

If it all oozes out over the sides of the mug, well, this can’t be helped and it is one of the best problems you’ll have because you’ll have to lick the sides of your mug to “clean it up.”

And there you have it! The Perfect Hot Chocolate. Let me know how you like it!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Merry Christmas from the Coppinger Family!

December 24, 2020 by Laura 6 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

May our focus always be on the One who made all things possible. Wishing you a Christmas filled with love to overflowing!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Simple Green Beans in the Air Fryer

December 20, 2020 by Laura 2 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

I love how simple and tasty it is to make green beans in the air fryer!

Do you have an Air Fryer? If no, you might consider putting it on your Christmas wish-list. Here’s how I’ve found it to save a lot of money. Not to mention it turns out some super fun foods, making us feel like we’re eating a treat meal from a restaurant!

So green beans in the Air Fryer? Well, these are super healthy and our kids gobble them up because they’re so delicious. They take about two minutes to prepare, so you can’t go wrong there.

Simple Green Beans in the Air FryerYum

Simple Green Beans in the Air Fryer

Save Print

Author: Laura

Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

12-ounces frozen fine green beans
1 teaspoon olive oil
¼ teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon garlic powder (optional)

Instructions

Pour green beans into a bowl (or cheat by cutting open the bag of green beans to use it as a disposable bowl!)
Add olive oil, salt, and garlic powder.
Toss with a spoon or tongs to coat the green beans.
Cook in your Air Fryer at 400 degrees for 7-10 minutes, tossing them half-way through cook time to make sure they are cooking evenly.

These have an awesome crunch. And did you see that simple hack I shared in the recipe? I simply open a bag of frozen green beans and use the bag as a bowl! Drizzle in the olive oil, sprinkle in the seasonings, shake the bag, and pour the coated green beans into the air fryer. No dishes!! NO DISHES!!!! That is my favorite part, besides of course, the fact that we can make this awesome vegetable in the air fryer. Nourishing and fun all in one!

P.S. I have this Air Fryer and we’ve been very happy with it!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Christmas Make-Ahead Breakfast Ideas

December 16, 2020 by Bethany Lotulelei Leave a Comment

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

I love baking, but who wants to spend all day in the kitchen when there’s hot chocolate to sip, family memories to make, and stockings to open? I am all about doing the work days earlier so you have a stress-free, peaceful holiday with your family. That’s why I put together this list of Christmas make-ahead breakfast ideas, to encourage you to get that baking done ahead of time so you have more time with your family.

Just in case you, too, are looking for ways to spend less time in the kitchen this holiday season, here are a few of our favorite tried and true Christmas make-ahead breakfast ideas!

Christmas Make-Ahead Breakfast Ideas

Mix and Match Christmas Make-Ahead Breakfast Ideas

1.Make-Ahead Pumpkin Donuts

We can mix up the pumpkin donuts, roll out the dough, cut the shapes, then freeze the uncooked dough on parchment paper or silicone mat-lined cookie sheets. We transfer the frozen dough into freezer bags, then any time we want fresh donuts (and when would we notwant fresh donuts?), we can grab some out of the freezer and fry them up fresh to eat while sipping a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate!

2. Yogurt Parfait Bar

Simply purchase the ingredients beforehand, make the granola or other add-ins a few days beforehand, chop up the fruit the day before, and you are set!

Here are some of my favorite toppings:

Containers of your family’s favorite yogurt
Stevia, maple syrup, or honey if you haven’t already sweetened the yogurt
A variety of fresh berries or peaches (make the process faster in the morning by cutting the fruit ahead of time)
Dried fruit options
Coconut Flakes
Cinnamon Sugar Pecans or other nuts or seeds your family enjoys
Dark Chocolate Almond Granola, Regular Granola, or Grape Nuts Cereal

3. Make-Ahead Muffins

I have to know: Is this “freezing muffin batter” a brand new idea to you, or have you tried it before? Once I tried this and learned how well it worked, I went on a muffin freezing frenzy (as confessed above). I now have Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffin batter, Blueberry Muffin batter, Chocolate Chip Muffin batter (recipe in Kids in the Kitchen eBook), and Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffin batter in my freezers. What a time saver!

Looking for a few new recipes to try for Christmas morning? Check out this list of 23 Muffin recipes!

4. Frozen Yogurt Cups

This recipe is easy enough for your kiddos to make! Invite them into the kitchen, and whip these up together!

5. Homemade Poptarts

I love to make these poptarts and freeze them before I bake them. On a day I declare to be a Poptart Morning, I pull a few out and bake enough for each person to have a couple with our eggs and fruit. So good!

6. Giant Breakfast Cookies

Make the dough ahead of time, scoop the cookies out unto cookie sheets, freeze the cookie dough balls, and you’re set! Hot breakfast cookies on Christmas morning! Serve with fruit, and bacon (of course).

7. Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

Biscuits and gravy is one of my favorite special breakfasts. Make your biscuits ahead of time, and pop them in the freezer then make your gravy the day before, and heat it up in the morning. Easy peasy!

8. Cinnamon Rolls

I couldn’t make a list of Christmas breakfasts without including Cinnamon Rolls! These are deliciously easy, and mostly low in sugar! They kind of resemble those frozen orange rolls you can buy in the freezer section – except that these have a little bit of nutritional value and not nearly as much sugar, so we can all rejoice.

What is your favorite breakfast to make for Christmas morning?

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

12 Christmas Cookie Recipes

December 13, 2020 by Bethany Lotulelei Leave a Comment

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Is there anything better than a plate full of Christmas cookies? This is a great time of year to spend a Saturday making several different types of cookies, wrapping them up, and gifting them to your friends, family or neighbors!

1. Low Sugar Frosted Christmas Cookies

Some might say that Christmas desserts are treats that should not be messed with. Perhaps whole wheat flour does not belong in a Christmas cookie. Maybe “low sugar” should not be included in a Christmas cookie title. It’s a treat, right? Can’t we just leave it well enough alone?

Sure.

But the more I experiment with cutting down the sweetener in my baked goods, the more I’m discovering that treats still taste like treats even with the sugar cut in half or more!

Try these cookies, you won’t even miss the sugar!

2. Christmas Spice Cookies

I LOVE the way these cookies make my house smell! Spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves they are oh so tasty!

3. Homemade Peppernuts

These tiny, old-fashioned cookies are one of my favorite holiday treats! They’re great to package up in small bags to give as Christmas time gifts to coworkers and neighbors.

4. Sweet and Simple Cranberry Cookies

I’m not a big fan of raisins in my cookies. But adding dried cranberries to this simple butter cookie? Well, that takes them up a notch without adding any effort.

5. Low Sugar Pumpkin Spice Roll-Out Cookies

While I’ve shared that I just can’t get behind Pumpkin Spice Coffee (typing it actually makes me shudder just a little bit), I most certainly enjoy making many Pumpkin Spice treats this time of year – to eat while I drink my (plain, non-pumpkin-spice) coffee. If my house smells of nothing but Pumpkin Spice from now until Christmas, there will be much joy in the holiday season.

6. Easy Low Sugar Almond Melt-Away Cookies

These lightly sweetened cookies taste amazing with a steamy cup of coffee or a cold glass of milk. Ah, life’s simple pleasures. :)

7. Sweet and Simple Butter Cookies

The combination of butter and sugar in this recipe makes for a perfectly sweet and rich cookie that melts in your mouth. Don’t worry though. The ratio of butter to sugar is such that these are only lightly sweet, but deliciously buttery. I’d still consider these a dessert, but I think they fit in the “low sugar treat” category.

8. Reindeer Cuties

These simple cookies are a hit. Fun to make…fun to eat. I like that they are made with honey and whole wheat. And they really don’t take much time at all.

9. Orange Cream Cheese Cut-Outs

These are one of my favorite Christmas cookies. And this recipe makes a lot of them…which is why it’s a good idea to have lots of people in mind to share them with!! Because having them just sitting around the house screaming at me to come eat them is a bad idea.

I’d like to give in to the notion that since they have orange juice in them, they’re good for me and just packed with vitamin C. Oh, if only.

10. Chocolate Snowballs

I like that these aren’t super rich or heavy…just kind of like a little bite of chocolate cake.

11. Cream Cheese Cookie Cut Outs

The cookies have cream cheese in them and the frosting is made with cream cheese. Let’s just say these cookies are soft, rich, and I have to work hard to keep myself out of them.

12. Whole Wheat Gingerbread Men

A Christmas classic! Your kids will love helping you make these sweet, Whole Wheat Gingerbread Men!

Your turn to share! What’s your all-time favorite Christmas cookie?

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Easy and Inexpensive Stocking Stuffers

December 9, 2020 by Bethany Lotulelei 9 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Perhaps you’ve gotten the majority of your shopping done for Christmas, but you still need a few small gifts for stockings? I’ve got you covered! Today I am sharing a list of my absolute favorite easy and inexpensive stocking stuffers!

Can you let you in on a little secret? Stocking stuffers are my favorite thing to make or buy. There is something about a stocking stuffer that’s so much fun! Throughout the years, I’ve discovered many ideas for fun stocking stuffers including homemade goodies, purchased trinkets, and other fun gift ideas!

When we were kids, our parents always put a pomegranate in the toe of every stocking. So we would open every little gift, and then fish out our pomegranate. We never purchased pomegranates any other time of year, and even now, whenever I eat a pomegranate it makes me feel like it is Christmas day!

Side note: if you, as the mom, love stuffing your family’s stockings, but yours always seems kinda empty, might I suggest you stuff a friend’s stocking, and she stuffs yours? Laura’s done this for years! She shares all the details here!

Consumable Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Everybody

A pomegranate
A small jar of homemade Vanilla Extract
A jar of Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix
A jar of Homemade Italian Dressing Mix
Annie’s Mac and Cheese box
Juicy Juice 100% juice
Pack of Gum
Honey Peanut Bars
A Can of Black Olives
A Favorite Candy
A few Chocolate Cookies in a pretty bag
Packets of Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
Cereal Bars
A bag of granola
A Small Jar of their Favorite Jelly
Sunflower Seeds
Chocolate Crunch Bars
Beef Jerky
Fruit
Peanut Butter Honey Rice Krispie Treats
Fruit Leather

Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Kids

A homemade gift certificate for an Experience Gift
Veggie Tales DVDs
Card games like Blink, Old Maid, Skip-Bo…
Regular decks of cards
Mittens or gloves, hats, scarves, ear muffs
Socks
Fun bandaids
CDs
Books
Hair clips and such for little girls (although I have no experience in this area!!)
School supplies

Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Women

Good quality pens
A Butter is My Love Language Shirt
Small (and pretty) note pads
Kitchen Towels
Earrings
Lotion Bars from MadeOn – this stuff works miracles on my dry skin!
Wooden Spoons and other Kitchen Utensils
Warm Fuzzy Slipper Socks
Flexi-Clip from Lilla Rose – because they’re beautiful and SO easy to use and inexpensive and pretty and…
Chapstick holder for a keychain
Sunglasses
A nice hat or gloves
A pretty scarf

Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Men

A new tie
A nice pair of socks
Good quality beef jerky
A back scratcher
A grill scraper
A magnetic wrist band to catch screws and nails
This neat pen tool
A pack of cards
A fun brain teaser
A bag of good quality coffee
A head massager

Your turn to share! What is one of your favorite stocking stuffer ideas?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

The Best Gift Ideas for Men

December 6, 2020 by Bethany Lotulelei 10 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Once again, Bethany (my assistant) comes through for us with this awesome list of gift ideas for men!!

The men in my life are notoriously difficult to find presents for Christmas. I don’t know what it is, but every year I struggle to nail down the perfect gift for them! So this year, I decided to make a list of the best gift ideas for men that I’ve used over the years, or found while I was doing a bit of online shopping, to share with all of you!

Take a look through this list, pop a few items in your cart, and you are set!

The Best Gift Ideas for Men

$10 and Under

Magnetic Wrist Band Cuff
11 Tools in 1 (pocket size)
Carhartt Boot Socks (very warm!)
iPhone Charger Keychain (so handy!)
Papa Bear T-shirt
A Head Massager
I’d Rather Be Fishing Socks (for the fisherman in your life!)
Warm Thermal Touchscreen Gloves
4-in-1 Pen Tool (pretty nifty!)
Telescoping Back Scratcher

$20 and Under

Long Cotton Plaid Scarf
A Leather Money Clip
Bluetooth Beanie (for the runner!)
This Beard Grooming Kit
A Tactical Pen and Self Defense Tool
Vincent Van Gogh Guitar Picks (for the musician)
Double Wall Coffee Mug
A bottle of this Gourmet Hot Sauce
100% Grass Fed Beef Sticks (yum!)
A Thermal Neck Warmer

$50 and Under

Neck and Back Massager
A Dartboard and Darts
A Survival Gear Set
Men’s Moccasin Memory Foam Slippers
Backyard Golf Cornhole Game (looks like fun!)
Exotic Game Sausage Sticks (including venison, wild boar, and elk)
Columbia Fleece Jacket
Wood Phone Docking Station and Organizer
Smokehouse Grilling Spice Set
Acupressure Foot Massage Slippers
YETI Insulated Tumbler

The Weirdest Gifts I Found

I don’t know what to tell you about these, except they made me laugh!

71-Inch Burrito Blanket
Chopstick Light Sabers
Dinosaur Taco Holder
Hot Dog and Bun Toaster
Wearable Fleece Blanket

Looking for some additional ideas? Check out the last few year’s guides as well!

Do you have any additional gift ideas? Share in the comments below!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide for Women

December 1, 2020 by Bethany Lotulelei 4 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

It’s here: the Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide for Women. (Huge thanks to my assistant Bethany for putting this together for us!!)

I created this list of tried and true gift ideas to help take the stress out of your Christmas shopping. There’s nothing worse than standing in the aisles of Wal-Mart the week before Christmas, desperately trying to find something for everyone on your list. Even typing that scenario makes me sweat a little. I’ve had Christmases where I procrastinate my shopping until the last minute, and years where I’ve gotten it done ahead of time, and I can tell you: I vastly prefer getting it done early!

Just in case you, too, are hoping to cross your shopping off the list in November this year, here is my very best ideas for your mom, sister, and bestie!

You might, also, want to send this list to your hubby. He might appreciate a few suggestions as well. And if there is something in particular you love on this list, give the guy a little head’s up. ;-)

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Women

10 Gifts for Women Under $10

This beautiful Prayer Journal
A Stainless Steel Water Bottle
Pretty Rubber Spatulas (these bright-colored spatulas are my favorite! I like to slip one in each stocking.)
Burt’s Bees Essential Gift Set
Clip On Reading Light
Linen Apron
A Starbucks Gift Card
This beautiful Pashmina Scarf
A set of 6 Luxury Facial Masks
These Cozy Slipper Socks

15 Gifts for Women Under $30

Pioneer Woman Cookbook Holder
Vanilla Bean Soy Candle
A Birthstone Necklace for moms
Boy Mama Baseball Cap
Heavenly Homemakers’ Simple Real Food Recipes Cookbook
A lovely Wall Mounted Jewelry Organizer
Fleece Lined Gloves
Women’s Memory Foam Slippers
Bluetooth Earbuds (to listen to music or podcasts, these are a great price right now!)
Heavenly Homemakers’ High Five Recipes Cookbook
Fleece Sherpa Blanket (so many fun colors!)
Leather Leaf Earrings (Joanna Gaines style)
A Grandkids Photo Frame (soo sweet!)
This beautiful 3/4 sleeve Robe
Stacking Sterling Silver Rings for moms

10 Gifts for Women Under $50

A garden stool with a tool bag
This Whirley-Pop Popcorn Maker
A luxurious Back Massager (this looks wonderful!)
A Chemex Coffee Maker
A Triple Insulated Coffee Mug
Cedar Bird Feeder for the avid bird watcher
This beautiful Journaling Bible
A Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree for the plant enthusiast!
This fun Record Player
A Milk Steamer for Lattes

10 $75+ Gifts for Women (when you want to splurge!)

Instant Pot (you know I LOVE mine!)
A Kindle Paperwhite (for the reader)
A 3-Month Gourmet Coffee Subscription Box
I bet she’d love a Blendtec Mixer (here’s my review of the Blendtec!)
This pretty (and useful) Dutch Oven
Kitchen Aid Mixer (so many great colors!)
This Ice Cream Maker (no ice needed!)
Under Armour Leggings (for the athlete)
An Espresso Maker (for the woman who loves her coffee)
A Self-Care Subscription Box

I hope you found something for your loved one on this list!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Heavenly Homemakers Vanilla Extract for SALE!!!!! (While Supplies Last!)

November 29, 2020 by Laura 4 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see our disclosure policy.

Exciting news!! We have a batch of our delicious Heavenly Homemakers Vanilla Extract bottled up and ready to ship out to you!

Our Heavenly Homemakers Vanilla Extract is perfect for:

Holiday Baking!!
Gift Giving!!

What is most exciting right now about us offering our vanilla for sale is that while vanilla extract at the store is pretty pricy right now, we can send you our completely pure (no sugar, not watered down!) vanilla at around the same price (or less!) than it can be found at the market. And with FREE SHIPPING too!!

BONUS – free High Five Recipes Cookbook!!!

When you buy 2 or more 8-ounce bottles of vanilla, or 3 or more bottles of 4-ounce bottles of vanilla, we’ll send you a FREE copy of our brand new High Five Recipes Cookbook! No coupon code necessary – the book will simply be included in your order. :)

Our quantities are very limited, so get this while you can!

Home / Shop

Heavenly Homemakers Homemade Vanilla Extract - 8 ounce

$33.00

Categories: Vanilla Extract

Manufacturer: Heavenly Homemakers

Description

Made with only the best ingredients, this vanilla extract is 100% pure! Ingredients include high-quality vanilla beans and vodka - that's it! Slow brewed for 6 months, this vanilla is delicious and perfect for your baking needs. Because this extract has such a strong, pure flavor, feel free to cut the amount of vanilla in half when following a recipe - then you can get even more bang for your buck. FREE SHIPPING included with your purchase.