Link Love :: the Hostess With the Mostest edition

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We’ve got out of town visitors for the next few days, so our weekend is full of getting out and about, enjoying the gorgeous fall weather, and loud, childlike squeals from the playroom (there are currently four kids under 3 in our abode!).  I hope you have just as enjoyable a weekend.

Here are some of my favorite reads from this week:

Food & Drink

• Mom’s Apple Cake :: Smitten Kitchen
• Frugal Recipe: Chicken Soup :: My Dollar Plan

Green & Frugal Living

• DIY Projects to Save Money at Home :: Remodeling This Life
• 9 More Uses for Used Cloth Diapers :: Almost Frugal

Making Your Home a Haven

• 22 Bathroom Storage Ideas :: Better Homes & Gardens (check out this wild sink-in-a-drawer)
• Fall Front Porches: Get Your Camera Ready! :: The Inspired Room

Kids & Parenting

• Free Molly Monkey Pattern :: Mmmcrafts (loving this new-to-me site!)
• Free Vintage Sewing Cards & Paper Dolls :: Bella Dia

Money Management

• 5 Unique Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Family :: Frugal Dad
• 10 Excuses For Going Into Debt :: The Wisdom Journal

Organizing

• What To Do With All This Artwork? :: Kiddio
• Organizing Your Computer :: I’m an Organizing Junkie

Productivity

• Baby Steps Toward a Saner Life :: On Simplicity
• Hard Times Ahead: How to Survive When the Going Gets Tough :: My Super-Charged Life

Taking Care of Yourself

• 9 Fail-Proof Tips for Eating Healthy at Social Gatherings :: Zen Habits (I’m noshing on M&Ms as I type this – ah, the irony)
• 3 Steps to Change the Nation’s Future :: Dave Ramsey (yep, this is most certainly taking care of yourself – and your family)

Out of sheer randomness:

I love this compare-and-contrast of the 1963 and 1991 versions of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever.  My daughter reads the tattered ‘63 edition, which I myself read as a used book.

I had a post this week on Digital Bliss about how to keep your blog running strong if you need to take a break.  I’ll be implementing these very things here in the next few weeks!

And here are Simple Mom’s top 10 referrers for September:

1. Rocks in My Dryer
2. Biblical Womanhood
3. Small Notebook
4. Soule Mama
5. Nesting Place
6. Frugal Dad
7. Blissfully Domestic
8. Mommy Coddle
9. The Inspired Room
10. Unclutterer

Thanks for making the blogosphere a better place!