Do you need an attitude adjustment?
Take control of your attitude by taking control of your thoughts. Our attitude is the missing link in our attempts at getting organized.
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Homemaking Encouragement for Christian Moms
How to change your mindset
Weeks have passed since the holidays which were a fun break but also exhausting and a lot of work. Then we jump into January with all the energy and good
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How to Pay Attention - and why we all need to
Originally posted in January 2010 Attention and observation are the primary habits we are going to work on in our upcoming school year. Therefore, I have to gather my wits
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Stay at home mom, always tired - what to do
I remember being so weary, so tired, as a young stay-at-home mom with small children. There was so much to do. So much to do, in fact, that it seemed
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What's Working Now: Post-It Planner
Ah, the constant struggle to find or create the perfect planning system. How many of us spend more time tweaking and changing our planner than actually using it? A post-it
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How to organize your attitude.
My new tagline is “organize your attitude,” because I think our own mindset as moms is crucial in our homes. This theme fits well here, too, because an organized attitude
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Stay organized with a smart planner
How many planners have you tried using in your adult life? The number is likely more than one. When you’re trying to figure out how to organize your life,
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Old-Fashioned Homemaking
Homemaking has fallen on hard times for the last hundred or more years. Though its been devalued by our culture, in reality, it has not lost any value to the
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Why a gratitude list won't work for you.
Will a daily gratitude list make you happier and help you get more done? Not unless it's a list of true thanks, not shallow feel-good thoughts.
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Homemaking Hacks (a podcast episode with Virginia Lee Rogers)
When we think of homemaking basics or homemaking hacks, we should not let HGTV or Pinterest or Martha Stewart be the standard or the ideal. Homemaking is not about achieving
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Transformation Ten: Expecting & Enjoying Entropy
Transformation Ten is one of my little homemaking mottos that helps me tackle housecleaning in small bites and tame my attitude at the same time. When we wonder how to
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Homekeeping takes a team - build yours!
When you stare at the laundry piles in the bedrooms, the dirty dish stacks on the counters, the crumb accumulations across the floors, homekeeping can feel impossible, especially as a
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