Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. ~ Elsa Maxwell This is a simple habit but easy to forget…
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Housekeeping Habits
Service Opportunities – An Upgrade
Part Three of Chores or Service Opportunities? We have a system of Service Opportunities in place for our children to…
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Mama on Vacation: Surf and Turf
The best thing that you can give your children, next to good habits, is good memories. ~Barbara Johnson My mother…
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Toss Your Laundry
My grandmother has a laundry chute. It’s always been a fascinating thing to me. As children, my brother and I…
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Spring Cleaning giveaway!
We’ve posted a lot about the habit of spring cleaning, both our homes and our hearts, these last couple of…
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What is a Proverbs 31 woman?
My first loaf using my new Nutimill ******************************** It’s funny that I would start making home made bread, researching and…
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Back to basics: The Lunch Lady
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like…
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Fast Food for Slow Sundays
We all want peaceful Sundays, right? So, you’ve gotten into the habit of being ready a little at a time…
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Spring forward: A seasonal assessment
Are you longing to paint your toenails and pull out the sandals? Have you been thumbing garden seed catalogs like…
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Flylady – tools not rules
Are YOU living in CHAOS? (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) Do you feel overwhelmed, overextended, and overdrawn? Hopeless and you…
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Planning to be spontaneous – the write stuff
…encourage one another and build each other up… 1 Thessalonians 5:11 It’s an everyday occurrence with big potential. It can…
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Back to basics: the cook box
Funfetti cookies with icing, pineapple supreme cake, raspberry and blueberry muffins. My children have been cooking up treats with a…
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Back to basics: big-shop cooking
I must be honest. I’m not a true once-a-month cook. I tried. I strived (or strove). But it wasn’t easy….
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