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Simple Tips to Manage Household Chores
Household Chores, do you love them or hate them? I’ll be the first to admit, housekeeping hasn’t always been my favorite role. I can keep a home. I can deep clean. But I don’t particularly enjoy the process of household chores. I’ve heard that there are women who do love housekeeping. I’m not really one of them. Don’t get me wrong. I like having a clean home. I like looking over a clean kitchen, or an organized closet when the laundry has been folded and put away. I also believe it’s a role to be honored because the Lord has led women/wives to be keepers at home, (Titus 2:4-5). I…
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Prepare the Home for Winter Illness
This is the winter illness season for colds, flus, and other yucks! In our family we all have struggled with head colds, sore throats, headaches and achy bodies already and we’re only a few weeks into winter. There are a lot of people we know who’ve faced the crud and it seems to be lingering. Just last evening Young Man ended up with a sick tummy, so it looks like it’s time for round two. Last week, I shared some tips for cleaning up after an illness.
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Gourmet Autumn Lunch Ideas With Apples
During the autumn months, apples are a staple in our fruit basket. There’s just something comforting about biting into a juicy, sweet, apple when it is starting to turn cold outside. But apples are so versatile that they can be used for so much more than just a sweet, crunchy, anytime snack. But you can elevate the simplest of ingredients into a gourmet lunch using apples to make wonderful autumn lunch dishes. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party products. Being homeschoolers means we eat lunch in our own home nearly every single day. There are a few exceptions to that, like when we go out on…
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Set Your Minds: Making Lord’s Day Preparations
Preparing for Worship For so many years, I felt like Sunday mornings were filled with rushing and lack of control. This was never my intention. I desire to be prepared both physically and spiritually to go into worship with a mind set to offer praise to the Father in humility of spirit. Read all of the Set Your Mind Worship Series for Women. As mom’s we often put the needs of our family ahead of our own needs. I found that for me, that extended especially to the mornings of the Lord’s Day; because I knew that it was the right thing to do, take care of…
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Changing Roles of Men and Women?
Marriage Moment: The Mockery of Men Have you noticed? Has it seemed obvious to you that lately television advertising for household products are putting dads, front, and center, of the target? One thing you can be sure of is that advertising agencies don’t do anything without careful thought, planning, and most likely test market research. So the decision to put dad in the role of a homemaker, is no accident. Why do I even mention this? Because it is a subtle reflection of the changes in our society. No longer are advertisers targeting women homemakers, no longer are they targeting stay at home moms. No. They are…
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Mid-Year Classroom Redo
Updating for a Fresh Look with a Classroom Redo If you are a regular reader, you know that in the winter we burn firewood as our main heat source. This particular winter has been especially cold for Ohio. So in order to conserve heat, we closed off the classroom and moved the learning to the dining room. But the classroom quickly became cluttered since that happened the classroom has become a dumping ground for all things that didn’t have a home. It was seriously in need of a classroom redo. Embarrassingly here is the before photo: So on Saturday my friend Sam posted on facebook and twitter that her classroom…
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28 Days to Timeliness, a Review
Timeliness through Routine I’m not really a late person. Generally speaking in my life, I like to arrive about 10 to 15 minutes before a scheduled event. My father was an early person. I mean, very early, if he wasn’t early by 30 minutes or more to an event then he felt like he was late. I don’t want to be too early, but I do not like be late. This post contains affiliate ad links to products which may be purchased at external sites. I was thrilled to hear that my friend’s daughter, Davonne Parks, released a new e-book on October 1st. I’ve known Davonne for much of her life. I watched her…
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The Wise Woman
Builds Her House How do you want to ‘build your house‘ today? I read this as part of my study on being a keeper of the home. I immediately thought of my Mammaw Aleshire. My mammaw was a woman who put her family first. She raised 9 children, had 25 grandchildren and was well loved in her community. She was a wise woman. The wise woman is one who builds her house. Is this referring to a physical house, an abode, a place of dwelling? Possibly. “The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.” Proverbs 14:1* As women we have been given the task of…
