Every season I have to tweak our chore charts/family routine. Routines help a home thrive, and leaves more time for families to stay centered on Christ. Let’s face it, if you are living in chaos, you aren’t really able to find time to focus on Christ…or at least that is the routine I fall into….
Category Archives: Reflections on the Home
You CAN’T Do it ALL (Really…You Can’t!)
From the archives… As women, I think we somehow get into our little heads the thought that we can do it all. Maybe it’s because we are responsible for so much. Or maybe the world puts this on us, I don’t know. But I hear and see so many women struggling to do more than…
Let Him that Hath Two Coats (and Her that Hath Six Strollers)
I blame the beginning on being a weird and lonely only child*. Too poor to afford Guess jeans and Esprit shirts, too girlie-foo-foo challenged to wear my hair in a French braid with feathered bangs, and too Christian to participate in the daily sass-a-thon, I had very few friends in public school. Recess was misery…
Learning Contentment at Home
For many years, we’ve homeschooled, home-churched, and even home-birthed with our 8th child in 2011. We minimized homeschool groups and coops and only ran errands once every couple of weeks or so. Being busy at home, and content in my role as wife and mother, isn’t foreign to me. So I was a bit surprised…
Choosing the “Slow” Life
I did not have a slow childhood. Actually, that’s an understatement. I have been a busy, overachieving perfectionist ever since I saw Mary Lou Retton get her “perfect 10″ and told my first grade teacher that I was going to be an Olympic gymnast some day (and meant it). When I wasn’t busy with gymnastics,…
Go Clean Your Room!
Q: “I’m wondering what I should expect from my young children in regard to chores and helping out around the house. It’s like pulling teeth to get my 4 year old and 2.5 year old to clean up toys! I have to remind them dozens of times about what they should be doing. Often, I…
Prioritizing Housework
My last two posts have dealt with the unique challenges of morning sickness as a wife and homemaker. After weeks of spending my days on the couch, I’m beginning to feel more like myself. I’m able to do some cooking and a bit of housework is getting done. When I found myself with a little…
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