Encouragement and Support for Christian Stay-at-Home Mothers
391 unread emails! Woah! While I am not aiming for a perfect inbox zero, I am intentionally decluttering emails this month. Newsletter subscriptions that no longer serve me this season are getting deleted furiously. How is your inbox doing? Is it time for you to do an email declutter? I have some tips on how to do so. Read more…
I envy people who find cooking and/or baking therapeutic. Instead, I see cooking as a necessary evil . We have to eat, thus I cook since I can’t keep ordering in. Read more…
Our minds determine what we say and do. Therefore, it is important that we guard our minds. And we guard it by watching what we let in and what we feed it via what we read, watch or even listen to. Read more…
Is it possible to have freedom within structure in our homeschool? How can we plan in such a way to allow both freedom and structure to co-exist? Actually, should we even bother to try? Aren’t they like oil and water? Read more…
When I successfully get our routines and systems to come together in our home, peace reigns. But, that does not happen every day because life happens. Still I aim for it because not trying means chaos will reign. Read more…
Setting up a meal planning system is a pain in the you-know-where. But in the long run, it reduces decision fatigue, saves money and is healthier for us. Read more…
Setting up systems for homeschooling and our home is helpful as it gets everyone doing things systematically. This way we don’t end up doing unnecessary work or we miss out what needs to be done. Read more…
The secret to having a successful day starts the night before. Yes, you need to set up an evening routine so that you don’t waste your morning routine. Crazy huh? But it works! Read more…
Everyone hopes that the new year will be better than the last. But few of us actually prepare for it to be so. We tend to just let the year happen and then gape in surprise when that year comes to a close. So here are some concrete steps we could all take to live a more intentional life. Because, as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry says, “a goal without a plan is just a wish.” Read more…
As young and very idealistic mothers, we all start out with the good intentions of only offering organic fresh and home-cooked meals. But our children grow up and horror of horrors, choose to eat junk food over our home-cooked foods. What gives? Should we have not bothered at all? Read more…