Looking for an opportunity to do some good this holiday season? Send in a few knit gloves, hats or socks!

My church’s mission team is headed to Burma just after Christmas to take supplies to the orphanages and refugee camps there.

We’re getting ready to enter the heavy-duty holiday season, which means a packed editorial schedule for us and tons of great holiday-focused articles for you! A lot of holiday topics (like crafts, kids’ projects, cooking and recipes, family traditions, templates and printables, planners, calendars and more) cross over into the topic of family.

Halloween Links

Free Halloween Recipes Cookbook
Free Halloween Crafts, Coloring Pages & Projects
Scary Halloween Treats from Nessa’s Kitchen
Creepy Halloween food recipes are some of our favorites, and here’s a new recipe:  Apple Bites.
More scary Halloween food recipes.
Kid friendly Halloween decorations that are fun to make and look at!
Free printable pumpkin carving stencils.
How to decorate a pumpkin [...]

It’s my pleasure to join Blog Action Day for the second year in a row and help further the global conversation for change and awareness!  This year’s Blog Action Day is climate change, which I feel I have a unique perspective on since I live in Alaska. 
I was reading through a Top 100 list [...]

Interested in reading more of my work that you won’t find on Home Ever After? Check out some of the guest posts I’ve written for other sites:

We launched a new site a few weeks ago called DanelleIce.com.  There you’ll find humor pieces, all things social media, blogging-related, and more, like these:

13 Blogging Tools on my Treadmill Right Now
Tide Apologizes on DanelleIce.com for Unintentional Web 2.0 Faux Pas

Please Check Your RSS Feed
To those of you RSS subscribers who are reading this right [...]

Exclusive Interview:
We are excited to announce that we have an interview coming up with the blogging powerhouse that is Crystal Paine of Money Saving Mom and Biblical Womanhood!  Look for this fantastic interview on computer and home life balance to appear in our Mommy Tech department in the next few weeks.
Presidents’ Day Holiday Fun
Happy Presidents’ [...]

The 2009 Grammys are over – in case you missed it, like I did, you can pick up the comments all over the web today from blogs to twitter.  We’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day here too, and found

10 Ways to Save Money for Valentine’s Day from Thrifty Mommy, and
Don’t Break the Bank for [...]

 
What’s Happening?  Gather Around the Watercooler
So much happened last week, and our anticipation is building right now!  Many of you know that our office is in Alaska, and our local volcano, Mt. Redoubt, is about to erupt any day.  Understandably, disaster preparedness has been on a lot of people’s minds in Alaska, and this article [...]

One of Homemaker Barbi’s core values involves remaining neutral on all controversial issues. While we may report about current events related to controversial matters, our writers are professional journalists who keep their personal feelings out of the material.