Category Archives: Reflections on the Home

I Want to Be Like You, Mom

I have been thinking a lot lately about what it will be like around the house when my littles are older. My one daughter is sandwiched between 3 boys, and she is all girl. Somehow she manages to be the sweet, precious Princess of the house and yet still hold her own with those boys….

What are You Making?

“What are you making, Mom?”  My 3-year-old son–the one of my children who is most in touch with his stomach–asks this question of me regularly. On my good days, I have my well-planned menu hung on my fridge, my grocery shopping done, and I know exactly what I’m making. Telling a hungry boy that a…

Cluttered Home – Cluttered Heart

For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.  Romans 8:29 AMP This is a picture of Nashville, TN.  Our…

Cease Striving

“Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 (ESV) The New American Standard Bible (NASB) translates it, “cease striving”. Have you ever felt like your life as a homemaker is full of striving? You get up in the morning…

Homemaking: A Good Work

  You’ve probably all heard it by now. Even those of us who usually let politics roll off us like water off a duck’s back got our feathers just a little bit ruffled when we heard a political operative say that a certain presidential candidate’s wife “hadn’t worked a day in her life” because she…

“To be Busy at Home”

Here At the Well, the goal is for us ladies to encourage one another to live out the admonitions of Titus 2:4-5, which tell us to “be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be…

Important Jobs

Our fifth anniversary was coming up and we planned a week long trip. Our plan was to visit with my husband’s sister and her husband before heading to Tennessee to visit some Civil War sites. The history we learned and the places we saw were fun…made even more fun by the fact that we were…