This past month or so I have realized I need to focus more on my family and home. Even as we face new adventures with the older ones leaving the nest for college or getting married it’s time to reassess and refocus. There will be a lot of organizing this year as a result of […]
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My Mundane Day
It’s a nice stack of wheat pancakes smothered in maple syrup and butter kind of day. A fold three loads of laundry, wash a sink full of dirty dishes, and scrub the house sort of day. It’s fill the water jug with ice water and take out to dad hauling hay kind of day. Keeping […]
Saving Clothes for Hand-Me-Downs
Today’s Establish a House post comes from a question I received on my facebook page. “A question for moms of large families! How do you save clothes for hand me downs? Limited space and many bins are taking over my closets with clothes I’m saving and I dread seasonal change outs or size changes. What’s […]
Good Music Brighter Children
Please welcome another guest blogger for the Establish a House series. This time the topic is music and the impact it has on our children’s lives. There is a giveaway at the end! Hello, I’m Sharlene Habermeyer. Thanks for letting me guest post today! I am a mother of five boys and the author of […]
Keeping Children’s Sensitive Skin Healthy
Welcome to another Establish a House post, written this time by Andrea! She has some great tips for keeping sensitive skin healthy. When my first child, Miriam, was about a month old she developed a terrible diaper rash. I tried baby powder and changing her more frequently and then plain cornstarch per my mother’s recommendation, […]
The Joys of Motherhood – Our Daily Chores: Gifts from God
As mothers, our work is not washing diapers and mending holes in jeans—that is what we spend much of our time doing, but it is not our work. Our work is rearing children; but it is much more than that, for we rear our children to fulfill their potential. We might have dreams of their […]
The Joys of Motherhood – A Sense of Humor
Excellence does not imply a long face and only a shoulder-to-the-wheel attitude. Family life is just too much fun to spend all our time being serious. A sense of humor is one of the most valuable tools to achieve excellence. Without it we can become too critical, and it is easy to become discouraged when […]
The Joys of Motherhood – An Attitude of Excellence
There are houses and then there are HOUSES. Houses (lowercase) simply provide basic shelter. On the other hand, HOUSES (uppercase) are built and planned with love and care. They provide shelter, but also enrich the lives of those who live in them. These two kinds of houses are symbolic of an ordinary job of mothering […]
The Joys of Motherhood – Preparation – A Lifelong Pursuit: A House of Learning
I’m only sharing a snippet of today’s reading. For the whole portion read the section A House of Learning here. It seems to me that two things are necessary to joyful motherhood: preparation and excellence. Before a house can be built, a great deal of preparation must be made. Builders must learn certain skills. Plans […]
The Joys of Motherhood – A House of Order: Building Houses – Building Families
I’ve only posted a snippet of today’s reading. To read the all of it begin at the section titled Building Houses-Building Families. Celestial homes may be large or small, rich or poor. The families may range from a couple to a dozen or more. The home might be serene or bustling. But all celestial homes […]
The Joys of Motherhood – A Training Ground for Heaven
In creating a home and making it function, we have much more freedom and responsibility than do people in any other occupation in the world. They are always restricted by bosses and supervisors, stockholders, the buying public, or the realities of the marketplace—in other words, they are tied to the earth. In our homes, on […]
The Joys of Motherhood – A study for this week
Lofty, beautiful, and serene, a celestial orb glistens in a luminescent sky. Far below on the frontier of a dark wilderness in a tiny fortress live some strangers from the splendid place above. Their home is an outpost, reflecting some of the glory of the celestial homeland but surrounded by darkness and constantly under attack. […]
Five Ways to Immortalize School-Year Memories – Without Scrapbooking
As another school year starts to wind down Heather, the guest blogger for today’s Establish a House post, shares some ideas for keeping track of the memories that have been made. Welcome, Heather! We’re nearing the end of another school year, and if you’re like a lot of parents, you’ve taken your fair share of […]
Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
This month’s Establish a House posts will focus on mothers and how they deal with feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully through these guest posts you’ll be able to receive ideas on how to handle your own trying motherhood times! I thought it appropriate as we near Mother’s Day to focus on the good we ARE doing even […]
3 Ways to Get Some Me Time
This month’s Establish a House posts will focus on mothers and how they deal with feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully through these guest posts you’ll be able to receive ideas on how to handle your own trying motherhood times! I thought it appropriate as we near Mother’s Day to focus on the good we ARE doing even […]
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