Homemaking Encouragement for Christian Moms

The Simple Life.

The principle of multum non multa means choosing depth over distraction. Don't manage dozens of tasks; focus your energy on what matters most.

Nov 11, 2013 6 min read

What Makes a Productive Day?

So, last week felt like a rough, terrible week. However, the school checklists got done, the house hadn’t really fallen apart, and we’d had no major disasters. Really,

Sep 13, 2013 4 min read

Why messy homeschool days still matter

Homeschool mom encouragement for messy days full of lessons, laughter, resistance, virtue, and real learning around the kitchen table.

Sep 10, 2013 3 min read

Make a Digital Home Management Binder

It’s a simple fact: We need to track the details of running our households in order to maintain sanity and reliability. Our job isn’t to impress others, but

Aug 13, 2013 3 min read

Life is a Story: You Are in a Fairy Tale

Life is a story. It is God’s Story. Not only can these fairy-tales be enjoyed because they are moral, but morality can be enjoyed because it puts us

Aug 11, 2013 11 min read

Living Your Biography

Life is a story. There is the big-picture story that God is telling from beginning to end, a story where we are just bit players adding color along the

Aug 4, 2013 10 min read

Growing Pains

This is the first installment of what I hope to be a regular Monday feature: A Metaphor for Monday. Each Monday during our weekly meeting, I will be pep-talking

Jul 28, 2013 2 min read

Teaching Beginning Writing, freeform

This year I start teaching writing again. I have taught several writing classes over a scattered 5 years from 2001-2010. I started off using the old IEW teacher training

Jul 24, 2013 4 min read

Summer Side Dish: Flatbread Cooked on the Grill Easy Recipe

Winter has its soups served with bread and salad, and summer has its grilled meat and salad and…what? Who wants to heat up the oven for potatoes or bread?

Jul 23, 2013 2 min read