2025 Black Friday Deals for Crunchy Moms

Posted on November 29, 2025 by treeoflifemama

First, check out these items from Bosch, including the mixer above that now comes with a stainless steel bowl instead of plastic! Get $120 off the mixer with the code KOP, from Kelly the Kitchen Kop.

Go here to see all the Bosch deals, including the sourdough starter jar below and the silicone popsicle molds.

Washington Homeopathics kits are also on sale. Go here for those.

If you want a smaller kit I recommend the Evie kit curated by Paola Brown of paolabrown.com. This is a basic first kid every holistic household should own, for all your basic acute care needs. The kit features all the homeopathic medicines highlighted in Paola’s storybook, Evie and the Secret of Small Things. It’s $127.49 instead of $160! Everything on Paola’s site is on sale 20% off, or more, for Black Friday, except for the Momeopath club and the Anovite products.

Go here to see what’s in the Evie kit, and here to see all of Paola’s fabulous products for learning about homeopathy. I absolutely love her products! They have been soooo instrumental in me becoming confident in using homeopathy, which has saved a ton of time and $ going to the doctor for my family! I especially love the Homeopathy Heroes Card Game! It’s fun and educational at the same time.

Just Thrive is having a sale on supplements. See what’s available here and use code KOP if needed.

Rebel Regenerative pastured raised meat is here. Use code KOP, thanks to Kelly the Kitchen Kop.

Freeze dryers from Harvest Right are on sale! Go here to get one!

OraWellness has products for the holistically healthy mouth. See over here.

Anti-radiation sleeves for EMF emitting devices, including headphones are here.

Nontoxic crunchy mom skincare & makeup are on sale too!

Then here are a ton of crunchy mom treasures from Katie of wellnessmama.com. I love the sauna blanket and the nontoxic kitchenware shown above at carawayhome.com.

Heather Dessinger of mommypotamus.com has her roundup here. I’ve also copied and pasted her bulleted list below if you want to just skip to certain categories.

That’s just the beginning! I don’t have time to show any more, but if you know of any more Black Friday deals for crunchy moms, please share in the comments below!

I receive no compensation for any purchases done through these links, I’m just sharing fun deals!

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2025 Tuttle Twins Black Friday Sale

Posted on November 27, 2025 by treeoflifemama

The Tuttle Twins books are on sale for Black Friday! These are the best books to teach yourself and your family principles of liberty, in the most digestible form! Created by Connor Boyack, these stories help you build character in your children and knowledge of liberty principles and America’s heritage. If you’ve ever thought about getting these books, act now! Black Friday is the best time to get them! You’ll never see a bigger discount.

Over 6 million copies of Tuttle Twins books have sold, with over 4500 5 star reviews.

You can get everything in the bundle above, which is over a $1000 value, for $275. It’s the super mega bundle. That’s 75% off! It includes physical copies of all the Tuttle Twins books, companion audiobooks, and PDF teaching guides. What’s included is listed below:

  • 14 paperback children’s books
  • 14 activity workbooks (PDF)
  • 14 audiobooks (MP3)
  • 14 parent guides (PDF)
  • Tuttle Rebuttals E-book
  • Americas History Vol. 1 and 2
  • History curriculum, videos and audiobook
  • 7 teen guidebooks
  • 5 teen choose your own adventure novels
  • 5 E-books

You can get either the Mega Bundle or the Starter Pack Bundle.

Go here to get all the deals!

I have read all the paperback books and the two volumes of America’s History. These books teach what I didn’t learn in public school but wish I had. I love that each paperback book is based on a classic work about liberty like “I, Pencil” by Leonard Reed, The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek, and The Creature of Jekyll Island. The two volumes of Tuttle Twins American History teach it from a perspective of classical liberalism. If you appreciate libertarianism, you will love these books!

Go here to get either bundle for 75% off, or buy the books a la carte for 25% off.

Then watch the Tuttle Twins videos below. You and your family may as well learn principles of liberty while watching a cartoon right? Who knew that you could teach such things with cartoons?

This first one is about socialism, and the bottom one is about needs vs. rights. You can see the rest here.

FTC Disclosure: As a Tuttle Twins affiliate, I receive a small commission if you purchase anything through the links in this post.

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Some Fun Thanksgiving-themed Games for Your Family Time!

Posted on November 26, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Image Credit: teachbesideme.com

Here are some last-minute ideas for Thanksgiving games and activities to enjoy this weekend, whether you have a big crowd or a small gathering.

Here’s half the family gathered for Thanksgiving back in 2019, with the three oldest children out of the nest, celebrating with other family and friends. This is when we lived in southeastern rural AZ, far from extended family.

-Thanksgiving Family Feud. Karyn of teachbesideme.com has this fun Thanksgiving Family Feud printable over here. Just put your email in on that page and you can get it sent to your email inbox!

Karyn also has some other fun Thanksgiving resources, namely

-a reader’s theater script for the first Thanksgiving dinner, here

-an M&Ms activity involving gratitude over here

-a Thanksgiving charades game is here. You could also use these cards for a Hedbanz game!

-a Thanksgiving trivia quiz is over here

Here’s a fun new tradition I hope to do tomorrow. Light a candle for the center of the table, and then take turns going around the table sharing a highlight of the previous year, or how you saw the hand of God in your life in the previous year. Just as God helped the Pilgrims with different provisions, He is helping you. Here is what I noticed two years ago a few days after Thanksgiving. If you have time and a small group, I would do all that after reading the book below which shows the hand of God in John Howland’s life. He was one of the passengers on the Mayflower, who fell off, but then was rescued. I’ve put the video of it below if you don’t have the book.

Then here is another website full of fun Thanksgiving resources, all created by the talented Jennifer Flanders. Click on the links below to see her fun stuff!

Image Credit: Jennifer Flanders of flandersfamily.info

If you want some enriching holiday screen time that does more than entertain, I’ve got some offerings here.

Then here are more Thanksgiving resources.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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2025 Black Friday Homeschool Deals

Posted on November 26, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Photo Credit: adonyig at pixabay.com

Black Friday is here! Here are some great Black Friday deals for homeschoolers!

First we have stuff from Thinking Tree Press, a company founded by a homeschooling family, and Sarah Brown. I read Sarah’s book last summer and absolutely loved it. All their stuff is half off with code BLACKFRIDAY50! These are PDFs or hard copy books to use as guides for curiosity, interest-driven homeschooling.

No matter your child’s interest, you are sure to find something to make the homeschooling day more joyful! They also have tons of resources for dyslexic learners. Check it all out here!

Next we have a discount on the Tuttle Twins books. Go here to learn all about that!

Then we have homeschooling curriculum that teaches all about the basics of homeopathy, called Teach Me Health and Homeopathy. It involves the storybook, Evie and the Secret of Small Things by Paola Brown, with a companion workbook and memory songs. For Black Friday it’s all 20% off! Go here to get it! If you are a crunchy mom, this is the curriculum you want to teach your children about holistic healing.

Paola also has a Homeopathy Heroes Card game that I highly recommend, also on sale! Buy it here! Perfect for gameschooling or a crunchy moms’ party!

Speaking of homeopathy, Paola is doing a BF sale on her Evie kit. This kit has all 19 of the homeopathic medicines mentioned in the Evie and the Secret of Small Things storybook. This kit is a great first aid kit to hav eon hand for every holistic mom to treat all acute symptoms: aches, pains, shock, trauma, nausea, colds and flus. Only $127.49 instead of $160!

Katie from Life in the Mundane, in the video below, shares deals from her etsy shop, where all her items are 30% off. You can see samples above. These are fun printables for cards and games to use in your homeschooling, including products for special needs children.

She also shares deals for Discovery Pack cards from thewaldockway.com, audio stories from Focus on the Family, Windowseat (a Christian audio resource), a teen moving making course, a kids in the kitchen course, Wise Phone, and Where’d You Learn That?

Windowseat looks particularly interesting to me. It’s a platform that offers Christian-based audio programs geared for children. Watch below to learn more!

Then the videos below shore more bargains! If you don’t have time to watch the videos, click on the transcript for each one in YouTube and scan the text for the homeschool companies you know and love.

Rachel, of Where’d You Learn That? shares deals below. Her site is here, where you can get a few freebies.

Then here’s a link to amazon where you can see a boatload of educational supplies that are discounted for Black Friday.

Lastly, there’s Yoto! Yoto is a portable audio file player especially designed for kiddos. If I had little children at home (which I don’t, my baby is 16), I would looooove this!!!! Why is it that the best material things in life seem to come out after I need them, like the perfect stroller (the Doona) after I was done having babies. I don’t know the answer to that. Anyway, this gadget allows your children to listen to audiobooks with personal players that don’t use the internet. My married daughter has a few for her little boys and they love them all. These players are super rugged so perfect for little children. You can buy cards with the audio files already on them or upload your own files to blank cards. Watch the video above that shows how cool they are. Go to us.yotoplay.com where you can get big savings across the site, including up to 40% OFF bundles! Plus up to 25% off Players and 20% off all Cards and Accessories. My local public library has Yoto cards you can check out and yours might too! I’m talking about classic stories like fairy tales, Peter Rabbit, and Narnia on Yoto cards, as well as stories with a lot more modern licensed characters like the Muppets. Even if you don’t have a Yoto player, you can use Yoto cards with the Yoto app on your phone.

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A Basic Primer on Healing with Homeopathy with Paola Brown

Posted on November 25, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Image Credit: Latter-day Media YouTube Channel

Recently I attended a meeting with Paola Brown, champion advocate of homeopathy. Not only is she a Momeopath (her trademark term for a mom who uses homeopathy for her family), she is the president of Americans for Homeopathy Choice, a nonprofit. Homeopathy cured her of a dreadful, painful chronic case of interstitial cystitis, which doctors weren’t able to help. Now she is on a mission to spread the good healing news of homeopathy. It truly is the best medicine out there, the medicine you’ve always wanted: efficient, inexpensive, fast-acting, nontoxic, with no side effects. I’ve experienced many healing stories using it on myself and my family. Go here to read the stories and as well as everything I’ve blogged about homeopathy.

Watch below to hear some of Paola’s healing with homeopathy stories.

Credit for Images Above and Below: paolabrown.com

If you want to learn more about homeopathy, check out her website paolabrown.com. I especially love her homeopathy homeschooling curriculum, her songs that teach the keynotes of basic homeopathic medicines, and the Homeopathy Heroes card game.

When you play this game, you learn about famous real people like Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Queen Victoria who all loved using homeopathy. You also learn the names of famous homeopaths like Samuel Hahnemann and Constantine Hering.

It plays similar to the game Sleeping Queens. I love the illustrations, with the objects on the box and the backs of the cards being things from nature that common homeopathic medicines are made from.

You also learn to match acute symptoms with the appropriate homeopathic (HP) medicine. It also comes with a little booklet to teach you more about the people. The game is lots of fun, with an easy and advanced mode. I love that it involves strategy, knowledge of homeopathy, and a little luck. These are so many wonderful resources to help you and your family ditch big pharma, as Paola says. I highly recommend all her resources!

You can also get her songs that teach what keynotes of common HP medicines go with what symptoms. They are so fun to sing and memorable! Paola wrote the lyrics and the professional musician Jayna Ray wrote the music and provides the vocals. Go here for the digital version, and here on her site for the CDs. These are definitely something to put in your homeschooling Morning Basket!

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A Few Thanksgiving Songs for Piano and Voice

Posted on November 25, 2025 by treeoflifemama

One of my glorious pleasures in life is playing the piano. I’m no Mozart but I can read music and play most sheet music placed in front of me. I also love Thanksgiving. So, combining my loves of Thanksgiving and piano brings me extra happiness! So here are a few Thanksgiving songs for you to enjoy too! One of my favorite things to do on Christmas or other holidays is to gather people round the piano and sing songs while I play the accompaniment. This is a remnant of my homeschooling days when most of my children were at home, when we did this every day.

First, here’s a little-known Thanksgiving song, called “Hymn of Thanks” by Dorothy Andersen. You can find it here. It’s from the Friend magazine, a publication for children by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the November 1978 issue.

Then I love this one from Shawna Belt Edwards, called “Thankful.” It also appeared in the Friend magazine. The sheet music is here. You can watch a video of children singing it here or below.

Thirdly, here’s a song called “My Thanks Today” by Anna Johnson and Nora Hogan, over here. The tune is delightful!

Want more Thanksgiving-themed songs? Get my Family Devotionals Ebook here. Then go to the November section. I hope you enjoy all the songs, poems, stories, and scriptures I have listed. This family devotionals ebook turns every day into a festival of worshipping God as a family.

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More on Law of the Terrain from the Bigelsen Brothers and Dr. Sam Bailey

Posted on November 20, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Photo Above and Below Credit: Dr. Sam Bailey YouTube Channel

It’s Thriving Thursday, #thrivingthursday! Let’s talk about how to thrive in your health, in all aspects!

This is a follow up to keep my promise that I’d share more from the Utah October 2025 Weston A. Price Foundation Conference, when I blogged a recap of the conference here.

The photo above shows four of the speakers at the conference. From l. to r. they are: Josh Bigelsen, Adam Bigelsen, Dr. Samantha Bailey, and Dr. Mark Bailey. I shared the recap that the two Dr. Baileys did of the conference here.

I blogged about the two Bigelsen brothers a bit ago. See over here. They promote the truth that terrain is everything. This is the truth that our nutrition, including our food, our thoughts, and our environment are so important to health. It’s much more important to focus on our terrain than on germs. Some people refer to this as “Terrain Theory” but I call it “The Law of the Terrain.” It’s not a theory, it’s a proven law. It’s illustrated in the Bible as the Parable of the Soil in Matthew 13:1–23. (It’s commonly known as the parable of the sower. I call it the Parable of the Soil because it’s not the sower that makes the different results in the parable, it is the different soils.) It’s the truth that a seed will grow differently according to the medium where it is planted.

In the video below, Dr. Sam Bailey, who met the Bigelsens in person for the first time at the conference, interviews the two brothers. They explain terrain and some of their dad’s involvement in the study of terrain, including blood analysis.

In the video, one of the brothers tells the story of his dad, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen, helping a client. She had hepatitis. When Dr. Bigelsen studied her blood, he found an image of an IUD, a hologram. He asked the client if she had an IUD, and she said yes. He told her he suspected that the IUD was causing the inflammation of the liver, the hepatitis. The IUD was inflaming the uterus, and this inflammation spread to her liver, and was showing up in her blood as a hologram. See the photo below of the IUD, with Dr. Bigelsen, from Dr . Bigelsen’s book. She took out the IUD and her illness went away. This is so amazing!

Do want to learn more about the Law of the Terrain? Go here.

Conduct your own experiment! Here’s one that I did, below. I took four canning jars and filled them each with a different medium. From left to right: toilet paper, plain old dirt from my backyard, leaves, and then potting soil. Then I added water and a dry pinto bean to each canning jar.

Then I kept the media wet and watched what happened to the bean/seed.

You can see the beans starting to sprout below.

The picture below shows the results about a month later. Which medium, or terrain, is promoting the most growth? Which medium shows the least growth? It’s so interesting that the seed in the toilet paper grew more than the seed in the plain old dirt. Not surprisingly, nothing happened to the seed in the leaves.

I’d love to hear the results of any experiments you do with terrain! Please comment below if you have any results to share.

Below is the definitive book on blood analysis that Dr. Bigelsen wrote. Looks fascinating!


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11/14/25 Tree of Life Mama’s Fashion Friday: Why to Wear Dresses Everyday as a Mom and How to Stay Warm in Them All Winter

Posted on November 14, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Credit for All Photos in this Post: Knorrp and South YouTube Channel

I found this YouTube Channel a while ago called Knorpp and South. It’s all about the Knorpp family who live on the east coast of the US. They homeschool and have a big family including 5 adopted children. They also go thrifting, among their other adventures, like living in an RV for an extended time, as well as living in Europe. I discovered that the mom, Megan, conducted an “experiment” where she wore a dress every day for a year. I love what she reports in the video below, after her year of wearing dresses every day. Basically, she says she felt prettier and more feminine, and therefore happier.

Then the video below shows how she stays warm in dresses all winter. I love it how she says that dresses are cheery and magical. When it’s the right dress, I agree. The “right dress” can be hard to find, but when you do, it is magical. It’s magical to both find the dress and to wear it. I also love that she says that she loves to wear bright colors on gloomy days in January. I do too! and any day, really!

Here are some tips from the video:

-wear tights, which everybody probably already knows

-wear pullover sweaters over or under dresses that have straps. She says it looks less frumpy to wear sweaters that hit above the waist.

-wear Mary Jane Doc Martens. At over $100 a pop, I’ll be looking for imitation ones. I don’t know though, they are cute, but I feel like they would make me feel like I’m 6 years old.

-wear knee-high boots. If you have wide calves that don’t fit typical knee-high boots she says what works for her are Naturalizer boots.

-wear a slip or dress extender

-wear bloomers. Here she is having fun wearing hers.

-wear wool coats found thrifting or a Costco puffy coat to coordinate with the outfits. You can find puffy Costco coats when thrifting too.

Here she is with a video showing how she finds dresses when thrifting. I’m amazed her husband went with her and seemed to be enjoying himself with always appropriate comments. What a patient man!

Here are the biggest tips I gleaned from the videos:

-go to a thrift store in a wealthy neighborhood, “where the rich old ladies live,” as she says

-have fun with layering, especially adding bright pops of color with scarves

Then here are two more videos about staying warm in winter with dresses.

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11/12/25 Tree of Life Mama’s Picture Book of the Week: A Thanksgiving Wish by Michael Rosen

Posted on November 12, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Thanksgiving is two weeks from tomorrow! Can you believe it? Seems like yesterday it was summer. If you want some delightful Thanksgiving picture books, go here to get a list. For today I’m focusing on the one above. It’s A Thanksgiving Wish by Michael Rosen.

In this story, we see a family leaving to go visit Grandma for Thanksgiving. We learn about the tradition she has of saving wishbones all through the year so that when her grandchildren visit she can make a wish with each of them. Sadly, she passes away, and the main character of the story, Amanda , doesn’t know if her family will enjoy Thanksgiving without her. After the grandmother’s death, the family gathers together on a stormy Thanksgiving day at her home, and then the power goes out. There appears to be no way to finish cooking the turkey and all the pies. Is Thanksgiving Day ruined? I love books like this where the reader is reminded of the power of family, tradition, and community. So go buy it or get it from your local public library today!

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Thanksgiving Picture Books for 2025

Posted on November 12, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Let’s talk about Thanksgiving picture books! I love all of these!

Thanksgiving in the Woods tells the true story of a family who hosts Thanksgiving in the woods every year near their home in upstate New York, with candles, bonfires, food and lots of people. Sounds so jolly!

The two ones above are about Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who persisted to get the federal government to create the US national holiday of Thanksgiving. It’s fun to learn both about the first Thanksgiving and the history of how Thanksgiving became a U.S. federal holiday.

What Is Thanksgiving? - By: Michelle Medlock Adams Illustrated By: Amy Wummer

Now this one above is a cute board book, very simple. Give Thanks to the Lord is a beautifully illustrated book to celebrate Psalms 92. Then It’s Thanksgiving! by Jack Prelutsky, below, is packed full of delightful poems. So fun!

This one above uses Pilgrim-type language and a plural first person “we,” telling the story of the first Thanksgiving from the Pilgrims point of view.

The one above has the air of anticipation that comes on the eve of all holidays. It’s simple and sweet.

Sharing the Bread by Pat Zietlow Miller has a rhyming bounce and delightful illustrations by Jill McElmurry. I love that it features a big family with everybody pitching in to create the feast.

I enjoy the work of Eric Metaxas. Squanto’s story fascinates me!

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Both the books above and below involve the real pilgrims. The one above is about John Howland, a real person who was on the Mayflower. He’s actually my many-greats-great-grandfather! His story illustrates the hand of God in someone’s life. What would have happened if he hadn’t been saved after falling overboard the Mayflower? This book deserves to be read every year to be reminded of Providence in the Pilgrims’ lives and all of our lives. I love the lovely illustrations in both these books! The one below is my favorite picture book for telling the general story of the pilgrims. I love the maps done in watercolor and pen by the author/illustrator, Cheryl Harness. I love all her books in fact.

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The Thanksgiving Door is my absolute fave Thanksgiving picture book. I just love, love the story of serendipity that surprised an elderly couple because of a grandmother’s influence of her family to be hospitable.

Then here are more, above and below, that tell the story of the Pilgrims. The illustrator’s style of the book below reminds me of Tomie de Paola.

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An Outlaw Thanksgiving is a little known story loosely based on a story involving Butch Cassidy. I was thrilled to find it thrifting this past year. I love this one, and A Turkey for Thanksgiving, because of their surprise endings!

I love the vibrant illustrations in Feast. So gorgeous! This tells the Pilgrim story in rhyming verse.

The ones above and below have photographs of real children dressed up as Pilgrims, showing what daily life was like for them.

Balloons Over Broadway is about a real person, Tony Sarg, who made the huge balloons involved in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. This book offers loads of possibilities for a unit study with children involving lots of history, STEM, and arts and crafts.

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The ones above and below just ooze happy family togetherness at Thanksgiving! I love that A Thanksgiving Wish features a big extended Jewish family gathering together and interacting with neighbors of different backgrounds. I reviewed a movie loosely based on the book below (pretty much the only thing in common is the title) over here. The book just makes me happy every time I read it. I love the snowy New England vibe and the work ethic depicted of the children, rising to the occasion to rescue Thanksgiving dinner by working together. And of course because it’s by Louisa May Alcott, or course I love it.

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Finally, we have the marvelous book below that pairs lovely wood carving illustrations with the classic poem by Lydia Maria Child about going to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving. A gem!

I hope you enjoy all these books! Happy Thanksgiving!

If you want more Thanksgiving resources, including some read-aloud stories involving God’s providence involving Thanksgiving Day, go here.

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