Meet The RH Contributors
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Breezy Brookshire
Breezy is a 21-year old homeschool graduate and stay-at-home daughter. She has been learning domestic skills from her mother since she was a little girl (she still remembers her first sock-folding lesson) and loves being at home with her family. She enjoys studying a variety of topics from the Biblical family and Scripture to cultural reformation and children’s illustration, and also loves to create art that glorifies her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Breezy and her sister, Emily Rose, own Noble Rose Press and are the creators of the Daughters of His Story paper doll series, and the Family Treasure Coloring Book. Breezy looks forward to someday caring for her own home and family. She blogs at A Bowl of Moss and Pebbles.
Emily Rose Brookshire
Emily Rose was home-educated and is a work-at-home-daughter. She finds joy in serving her family and is very blessed to be taught by her wonderful mother in biblical womanhood and artful homemaking. A few of her interests include hospitality, photography, graphic and web design, studying history and theology, and cultural reformation. Emily Rose and her sister have created a line of historical paper dolls based on Christian women from history, the Daughters of His Story Paper Dolls as well as The Family Treasure Coloring Book. In November 2011, the Brookshire ladies began the Clementine Pattern Co., where they create and sell embroidery patterns. Emily Rose blogs at Simply Vintagegirl.
Kelly
Kelly is the blessed wife to Aaron and mom to eight children. She and her husband enjoy a bustling life, home-educating and operating several family businesses. Between diapers, searching for bull frogs in the house (a science experiment gone bad) and homemaking for the glory of God, she shares her thoughts at Generation Cedar.
Rhonda
Rhonda has been Herb’s helpmeet for the last 28 years and together they have four children, aged 27-12. They love serving in their local church as a family, home education, hospitality, counseling, and history. Rhonda seeks to encourage women in their roles as wives and mothers through mentoring and writing.
June Fuentes
June Fuentes is the happy wife to Steve and blessed homeschooling mother to eight beautiful children that they are raising for the Lord. She has a heart to see mothers all around the world grasp the vision of biblical motherhood and to see this noble role restored in the 21st century to the glory of God. June strongly believes that weak homes equate a weak nation and therefore blogs at A Wise Woman Builds Her Home to minister to Christian women on how to build up strong Christian homes. She is also the author of True Christian Motherhood.
Carmen
Carmen is the love of her teacher/pastor husband, and mother of 7 semi-picky eaters ages 13 to 2. Aside from homeschooling her children she likes to cook yummy and inexpensive meals in her family’s pre-Civil War farmhouse kitchen. This is a far cry from their first week of marriage when her lack of cooking skills led to her husband’s stir fry every night. Thus began her journey on the road to being a keeper of the home. She is determined for her children to know the skills of home keeping and through her blog (Old House Kitchen) intends to help people enjoy their kitchens one recipe at a time. Along with homeschooling and cooking, Carmen enjoys spending time with her family, camping, and crafting. Carmen can be found at www.oldhousekitchen.blogspot.com and Facebook (Old House Kitchen).
Jennifer
Having just turned 19, Jen finds great joy in serving her family from home. She firmly believes that the home is a beautiful canvas for biblical hospitality, servanthood and discipleship. All aspects of homemaking are on her list of interests including gourmet cooking, baking, calligraphy, sewing and embroidery. She is also inspired by photography, music, theology and biblical womanhood.
Miss Jen blogs at Blessed Femina, which she founded in the fall of 2008 to document her blessed life as a daughter/homemaker-in- training and to encourage other women in Biblical femininity.
Happily residing in sunny northern California with her parents, it is her greatest desire to live a life depicted in I Corinthians 10:31: “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
Shelley
Shelley Noonan lives in the farm house her husband grew up in on the windswept plains of Nebraska. She has been blessed to married to her highschool sweetheart for 28 years and has seen God’s faithfulness in their marriage. She enjoys being Mom to three (now-grown-once- homeschooled) children and Nana to one here and one on the way! Shelley’s heart is to communicate and encourage Moms around the world in the art of mentoring their children. Shelley writes for moms and daughters going through Beautiful Girlhood and The Companion Guide to Beautiful Girlhood at http://www.blog.pumpkinseedpress.net Her website full of character training material is: http://www.PumpkinSeedPress.net
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Jill Novak
Jill Novak and her husband Robert have been married 33 years and are the parents of five precious children. Together their family founded Remembrance Press, publishers of The Pebbly Brook Farm Stories, Becoming God’s Naturalist, The Gift of Family Writing, and The Girlhood Home Companion Magazine. The Novaks have been caring for Jill’s elderly father who has Parkinson’s since the fall of 2009, and thus a new chapter of life is being written. Visit www.remembrancepress.com and Jill’s personal blog at www.jillnovak.com.
Hannah
Hannah is just an ordinary woman, saved by an extraordinary grace. married for thirteen years, she and her husband have been blessed with three sons and three daughters. Hannah loves lattes, re-arranging furniture, thrifting, handcrafts, foster parenting, and counts falling into bed exhausted as a sign of a really good day. She blogs at Cultivating Home.
Stephanie
Stephanie is a sinner saved by undeserving grace, best friends with her husband and mother to five shades of pink and one shade of blue. She is not at all hesitant to mention her addiction to lovely fabrics, vintage tea cups and antique books. Between homeschooling and home-keeping, she also enjoys studying Reformed Theology while sipping a very hot cup of coffee! Inspired by her daughters, she created Pure Modesty, a blog dedicated in finding resources for pursing Biblical femininity and womanhood.
Christin
Christin is the wife to a compassionate, God-fearing man, mother & homeschooler of five children (two girls, three boys). She is a woman lost in God. She sees beauty in simple things and appreciates a good cup of coffee.
She is learning to live her everydays with joy, find gratitude in the mundane, and speak words of grace. You can find her writing through her days at Joyful Mothering, and tweeting her thoughts on Twitter @joyfulmothering.
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Jacqueline
For 38 years now, I have been first a wife, but also a teacher of our children in the home. Now a new season is here, and with the blessing of my husband, I write DeepRootsAtHome as an encouragement to myself and others. (Titus 2: 3-5) What I share will be varied and practical…focused on being a good steward at home, of our time, and our relationships…but I also love to do things that bring beauty and order to our hectic lives and reflect God’s creativity. Oh, may we learn how important our jobs are as we become older women of God to speak into the younger woman! The habits of the home in one generation become the morals of society in the next. As William Ross Wallace said: “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.” 10 May, 1996 Washington Times.
Veronica
Veronica is a pastor’s wife, and mommy of one. She is a California girl, who was recently transplanted to the Lone Star State of Texas. She loves studying God’s Word, long conversations with her husband, home-educating her daughter, and good coffee. It is the desire of her heart to be joyfully content in whatever roles, responsibilities, blessings, and trials that her Heavenly Father, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to give.
Veronica blogs at A Quiet Heart, challenging herself, and others, to think biblically, obey passionately, and live contentedly in every sphere of life. And, she can occasionally be found on Facebook and on Twitter @AQuietHeart.
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Amy Walker
Amy Walker is a pastor’s wife and mother to three future homemakers. Her blog, Homestead Revival, is not only her creative outlet, but a glimpse into her journey to reclaim the home as a place of ministry to and for the family while encouraging women of all ages to join her in that endeavor. Amy’s passion is to see the next generation embrace being keepers of the home by living a simple life closer to the land (Titus 2:4-5; Thess. 4:11). Her current pursuits include homeschooling, teaching bible studies, hospitality, healthy cooking, gardening, raising chickens and goats, beekeeping, reading, preparedness, and organizing.
Jamie
Jamie is blessed with three kids and one amazing husband. Most days are occupied by homeschooling her two daughters, being keeper of her home, and working with husband Ken in their photography business. Whenever possible, she keeps a steaming mug of tea in hand. Since adopting a teen from foster care in 2010, she has become passionate about advocating adoption.
Knowing how profoundly she is capable of messing up her own life, Jamie is completely astounded that Christ has saved her, redeemed her, and lives in her and through her every day! She is convinced this verse was written especially for and about her: “I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.” (1 Timothy 1:16). She knows that absolutely anything good she does is because of Christ in her; she is merely a clay pot, worth nothing apart from the treasure inside (2 Corinthians 4:7).
The primary outlet for her abundance of words is See Jamie Blog, where she writes about homeschooling, parenting, home-making, adoption, and family life. ”Tweet” with her on Twitter: @jamieworley.
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Caroline Allen
Caroline Allen is blessed to be a wife to her beloved Sean, and mother to five children. She was home schooled all of her life by her precious godly mother, and now has started the whole adventure over again with her own children! Having been raised with a heart towards modesty, she started The Modest Mom, a clothing company that offers maternity and woman’s clothes. Caroline is also a consultant for Lilla Rose, where you will find practical yet beautiful hair products. She would love to visit with you at her Blog, The Modest Mom and chat with you on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
Jasmine
Jasmine has been married for 17 years and is a homeschooling mom to a quiver-full of children. She has a passion to help women reach a biblical view on womanhood. Between teaching and homemaking, she is also an advocate for families of children with special needs. You can find Jasmine sharing her thoughts at Far Above Rubies.
Bailey
Bailey is a sixteen-year-old homeschooler in love with anything literary or theological. The second oldest of nine children, she finds joy in romping with her younger siblings, scribbling in her ever-expanding notebook and trying her hand at the home arts. While her talents naturally tend toward academic junky, her deepest wish is to serve the Lord in the home. Catch up with all her thoughts at Big House in the Little Woods.
ArabahJoy
Arabah Joy is a desert place. She is a woman who has given up on trying to transform herself …and on pretending to be anything different than what she really is…And she is finding that Arabah is the place where God pours out His Spirit and the barren place joys… blooms…fills…becomes a glorious showcase for His glory.
In addition to being Arabah, she is also wife to one Loving Husband, adoptive and bio mom to 4 little ones, missionary, nature lover, house-shoes user, and Jesus freak. You can find her writing at Arabah.
Kimberly
Kimberly is a homeschool graduate, thanks to her mom’s cancer diagnosis. Now married to Mark, a true servant-leader, and abundantly blessed with ten children; Kimberly homeschools, washes mountains of laundry, mops acres of floors and rejoices in the opportunities that God brings to build relationships with those around her.
Back when they were overwhelmed with all young children, Mark and Kimberly knew that someday they wanted to offer support and encouragement to those who would follow after. Raising Olives is one outworking of that vision.
Their family’s primary goal is to glorify God and to raise children who will do the same so they attempt to self consciously examine each decision that they make in the light of God’s word. Many of their decisions may seem strange to the world and they’re good with that.
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Amy
Amy of RaisingArrows.net is the homeschooling mother of 6 living children and one precious little girl named Emily being held in the Lord’s arms. Her days are filled with giggly girls, rambunctious boys and sticky baby kisses. At night, she writes about it all. Amy is the author of Psalms for the Grieving Heart,a 30 day devotional ebook for those who grieve. It is her deepest desire that out of the overflow of her heart, her mouth should speak…and her fingers type.
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Jaime
Jaime, a pastor’s wife and homeschool mom, shares about simple living, homemaking, and healthy cooking on her blog, Like a Bubbling Brook. She is passionate about nurturing her family, living intentionally, and being debt-free. Join her conversations on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.