This is my sweet college friend Laura and her beautiful *ahem* handsome family. She’s one of those people you’d love to have as a neighbor and are happy to have as a friend. She’s compassionate, encouraging, and multi-talented. Since college, our journeys have had (and still have) some interesting parallels. Both of us are mid-western girls, were youth ministry wives for many years, and we’re organizing queens. I could list several more things in common, but today I want to share one of my favorites with you. We are both trying to find ways to keep our families healthy and happy through eating good, whole foods (she’s better at this than I am) and training our boys (and my girl) to be men (and a woman) of God. To us, that’s a great and adventurous undertaking!
Laura has created a business from the skills and knowledge she has gained making her home welcoming and a place of rest and growth. The top of her homepage says that her site is “A place to be encouraged as you strive to make your home heavenly…as well as a place to encourage you as we strive toward our heavenly home!”
Laura loves to cook and she has developed a simple style of cooking that doesn’t involve TV dinners or fast food drive-thrus. Not that they never eat fast foods, but they prefer whole foods which are better for you and taste amazing. Her site is full of ideas for making homemaking easier. Even if you work outside the home, her ideas will be helpful to you and aide you in getting organized, eating healthier, and having fun while doing both. But that’s not all her family is about. Laura says:
“Feeding your family does not end with food. My husband and I feel that filling our souls with spiritual nourishment is more important than anything else. We try to incorporate our walk with Jesus into every aspect of our lives. The spiritual training of our children does not begin and end at the church building. Please use our ideas to help you make God a part of everything you do.”
I’ve really enjoyed Laura’s site and plan on buying several of her e-books. The two newest ones (pictured) are half price through tomorrow! (Keep reading to the end to find out how to enter my drawing to win one of her e-books!) Some of the titles include: Totally Tortillas, What To Do With The Chicken In Your Kitchen, and Do The Funky Kitchen – about having a functional kitchen. Her online shop contains multiple recipe e-books, card making kits, prayer journals (or kits to make your own), and many other great products that are available through download or mail order. You can check out her online shop by clicking HERE.
Did I mention she’s a blogger? Laura is the creator of Gratituesday that you see here every week. Many of her free tips and ideas are posted through her blog which I enjoy for her kind words of encouragement and her sense of humor in dealing with motherhood and homemaking. I love her menu ideas, recipes and kid craft ideas. There is everything from homemade bubble bath to giant breakfast cookies to how to organize your pantry using jars – one of her favorite things . She also has a newsletter available that’s delivered to your email on a delivery schedule of your choosing. To sign up, visit her homepage HERE. Click HERE to read her blog.
Now for the fun part. Laura has offered one free e-book (of the winner’s choosing) out of her online shop for one lucky reader of this blog. To enter this contest, you must leave me a comment telling me which e-book you would choose if you won. Next Wednesday my lovely 5 year old assistant will draw a name out of a hat – literally. It could be you! So go visit Laura’s site and leave her a little love in the form of a comment…or better yet, a purchase. š And don’t forget to come back here to click on that little comment button below…yes, that one.
To make things easier for you, here are all of the links once again:
Laura’s Heavenly Homemakers Website: http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/home/
Laura’s Online Shop: http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/shop/
Laura’s Blog: http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/blog/
***You still have until Friday to enter the drawing for Megan’s book, Searching For Spice. Click HERE for details.***
I would love to win the fruits and veggies book. Thanks for having a giveaway!
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I think the breakfast book looks great. I need to be more creative with breakfast! š
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Ooh…I would love the Kids in Your Kitchen one. Cooking as a family is something that I need to incorporate more. (It’s really true that they eat their veggies better when they’re the ones who prepared them!)
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I would love the fruits and veggies book. I can always use more of them in my life.
I have gotten my youth group registered for camp and it makes me really sad that I am not going to be there. Still hoping to come up on Sunday with the kids to see everyone for a few minutes.
By the way — you are awesome and your blogs this week (and over mother’s day) have uplifted me in many ways. Thanks
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Don’t enter me in the contest – I’m lucky enough to have a copy of all the e-books already – but I just wanted to say this is an awesome post! Thanks for showcasing Laura and her site and all that she does. She astounds me every day with what she manages to accomplish, and this business thing? Yeah, she totally rocks it!
Ok, gushing moment over. š
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awwww. you have the coolest friends!
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Please sign me up and If I won, I would pick “Out of the Box”, breakfast is my hardest meal to put together. She has wonderful ideas and I know that book would be a blessing to my kiddies!
Thanks for hosting!
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I would love the Have your Fruits and Veggies Too ebook. I am always looking for diffrent ways to prepare fruits and veggies for my family. Thanks for hosting a giveaway.
I Love Laura’s site.
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Laura sounds like she has it all together. I am curious to know what she has for “Think Breakfast Outside the Box”, because I do. I think because of that, I would choose “What To Do With The Chicken In Your Kitchen.
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I think I would pick “Have Your Fruits And Veggies Too”, because I would like to find a way of enjoying fruit better. It could spice up the veggies too.
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I would pick the Funky Kitchen book, because my kitchen is pretty funky and it needs to be a little more Functional! š
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The breakfast one looks great!
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Very cool! Good to see college friends making the most of their talents. Sign me up for the cookie book.
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I would love the fruits and veggies book! I love Laura’s site!
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I really enjoy Laura’s blog! I would chose Do The funky Kitchen ebook if I won. Thanks for your nice post on the Chapman family.
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I am new to this blog and love it! I am about to get the Fruit/Veg/Breakfast ebook combo, it sounds great. My choice for the freebie would be What to do with your kids in the kitchen.
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I would go for the fruits and veggies book. I definitely need to learn how to include more of those in my diet! š
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You’ve done some fun things on your blog, Niki!
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I enjoy your website, the way I enjoy air. Ok just kidding but really good ideas though .
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Tons of videos we posted on the site. Love it!
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there is another laura coppinger lives in hixson tn and her son is the mayor of hamilton county tn her sons are joe jack jim and jeff aka poky and jim is the politician and she is almost 90
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Hey there! I could have sworn I’ve been to this website before but after checking through some of the post I realized it’s new to me.
Anyways, I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be book-marking and checking
back frequently!
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