Growing Home

How To Grow Your Blog & Win a Blog Make-over!

After much blood, sweat, and tears (okay, maybe not blood) it's finally here!

Once upon a time, I started this blog with the purpose of encouraging my fellow homemakers in their noble calling. I began as every blogger does with 1 follower, 1 Facebook “liker,” 1 reader. Almost one year later with God’s extraordinary blessing, Growing Home has over 600 followers, an interactive Facebook community of 4,750+ homemakers, a few thousand readers each day, and is providing a significant income without interfering with my primary duties as a wife, mother, and homemaker.

How To Grow Your Blog And Manage Your Home was written to help homemaking bloggers find success in keeping their homes well and successfully growing their blogs! No matter how small your blog may be right now, it has the potential to minister to thousands, and bring financial blessings to your family!

This book will teach you how to do just that by showing you:

Common mistakes to avoid
11 ways to create enticing content
How to improve your layout and design
11 dynamic strategies
How to host an extraordinary giveaway
29 of my most successful affiliate programs
My daily schedule and how to "fit it all in."
Much, much more. Click HERE to preview the entire Table Of Contents.

You can purchase your copy today for $4.99 or enter the giveaway form below for a chance to win 1 of 3 copies! The winner will be chosen on Monday, June 4, 2012.

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Linking to: Deep Roots At Home, Raising Homemakers, Women Living Well, A Mother's Heritage, Raising Arrows, The Modest Mom, Holy Spirit-Led Homeschooling, The Purposeful Mom, Feminine Adventures

Teach Me Tuesday | Homemaking Link-up #46

Welcome to the 46th edition of our weekly homemaking link-up party: Teach Me Tuesdays! Thank-you for sharing your homemaking wisdom, lovely tutorials, and introducing yourselves - I enjoy meeting each one of you.

How have you grown your home this week? Was it through gardening, preserving, baby-wearing, cooking, crafting, teaching your children, cleaning your house, loving your husband, or through something else the Lord has been teaching you? Encourage other aspiring Proverbs 31 women by linking up below. You may share as many posts as you would like!

Enter the direct link into the Linky Tool below.

A link back to Growing Home is not necessary but most appreciated!

Enjoy the learning and fellowship!

Check back next week to view the features and to link-up again!

Did The Proverbs 31 Woman Have A Career?

Some self-proclaimed "Christian feminists" refer to Proverbs 31 as biblical proof for careerism among women:

"She seeks wool and flax and willingly works with her hands." vs. 13

"She considers a field and buys it; from her profits she plants a vineyard." vs. 16

"She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies sashes for the merchants." vs. 24

It's obvious from these verses that our biblical heroine was very hard-working and productive! She used her excellent business sense to supplement the family income. What "Christians feminists" fail to understand is that her activity in her community and marketplace did not take her away from her primary duties as a help-meet to her husband, a mother to her children, and a faithful homemaker. (Genesis 2:1; Titus 2:4-5)

The Proverbs 31 women was not a career woman in the way those who use her the justify their job outside the home think of her as. She did not seek her glory in climbing a corporate ladder. Her husband and children did not play second fiddle to the office or her paycheck. She showed no loyalty to any employer but her husband. She did not work with other men as equals in places of dominion ( retail, manufacturing, government, or militia, etc.) She was not responsible to be the bread-winner and provide for her family like her husband was (1 Timothy 5:8).

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Instead, it was as a keeper of the home where her talents found their full potential. Here she could develop her gifts in handiwork and commerce and use them to bless her family, church, and community in God-honoring ways. The flexibility of working from home allowed her to stretch out a hand to the poor and show compassion and generosity like no other career can.

It was her husband, not her boss, who's heart safely trusted in her and he had no lack of gain. His wife had learned to so effectively tend to the needs of her household that she could pursue entrepreneurial endeavors and further bless her family.

What a tremendous example we have in the Proverbs 31 woman! We need not feel guilty for working or bringing in extra cash when we can do so from within the God-ordained sphere for women. It's when a job takes us to an outside workplace and causes us to neglect our primary duties as a wife, mother, and homemaker, that the Proverbs 31 woman ceases to be our example.

Linking to: Deep Roots At Home, Raising Homemakers, Women Living Well, Our Simple Farm, A Mother's Heritage, Visionary Womanhood, The Better Mom, Raising Arrows, The Modest Mom, Holy Spirit-Led Homeschooling