Meals might not seem like part of homeschooling, but it’s all part of the package of making life happen. And I have lists to make it easier. Master Grocery List I used to try to make a grocery list at the same time I menu planned – sometimes the magic synergy happened and sometimes it…
👤Login to Convivial Circle You can love your home – and the work it requires. Others make mom life look easy, but you end the day exhausted with still so much left to do. You wish someone could show you how to stay on top of a busy household, but right now it feels impossible….
1. I have a responsible, self-directed graduate. My oldest graduated this month. It’s pretty awesome. For the last 18 months or so I have not only not checked on his homework, I haven’t even known what classes he registered for. He’s taken the reins and is doing a great job. He works full time hours…
Dinner is the most important family time we have every day, but often we go into it harried and exhausted, hectically getting food on the table with no energy left. In this 38-minute workshop, Allison Schaaf and Mystie Winckler give several suggestions for simple changes to make to your meal routines to eliminate decision fatigue…
True confessions: I am a bad journaller. Yet in 2018 I started jotting down things I learned worth sharing, and sometimes even attaching a picture. The archives are collected here. Entries from the current calendar year can be found sprinkled throughout the blog. February 2020 – recovery, clutter, loneliness, Evernote, theology Every so often it’s…
If anybody needs to get things done, it’s mothers managing a home. GTD, therefore, is great for homemakers. After all, what we do in the home is very much like running a business. Mothers are the shapers of home atmosphere and home culture; keeping the mundane details under control allows us to direct our attention toward what…
When I was a young wife and mother, I read all the organization books, the productivity books, the godly family living books. I learned a lot, and a lot of it was good. But it took me about 10 years of trying to put it into practice that I finally realized I was never going…
The kitchen is one of the most important and used rooms in our homes, so it makes sense to prioritize keeping it clean and organized. We all know what it’s like to waste time hunting for the tool we need or wondering where to put something away. We’ve all stepped into someone else’s kitchen and…
There’s no denying it. Homeschooling comes with so much stuff. The papers, pencils, supplies, and books threaten to take over every square inch – and yet can never be found when they’re needed. So we look to organization to solve our woes, but the methods of the magazines will not help our homeschooling households. We…
I had a dream. And in this dream my pantry always had everything I needed. I never ran out of ingredients to make dinner. I would go to the pantry, pull out what I needed to make dinner that day and it’d be there—no surprises. I had achieved well-stocked pantry perfection. But it turns out…