As a busy parent, hosting house guests can be quite a juggling act. Being a mom is hard enough. Especially when we try to balance homeschooling, career growth, and on top of that: time with friends and family. Give yourself some grace. Your life doesn’t have to be thrown off-balance because of visitors or overnight guests. While you want to be an exceptional host, there … [Read more...]
Work at Home and Homeschooling Moms Get Balance in the Chaos
Whether you work at home, homeschool your kids or are a stay at home mom, this list of resources and tips is a go to for you! These work at home tips streamline homemaking tasks. They help you stay organized. They encourage you to live a life of balance and not chaos. Working at home and homeschooling are so similar. We are balancing home and an additional job on top of it. … [Read more...]
Simple and Effective Homemaker Morning Routine
{Guest Post by Heather Hice-McCray} Homemaker Morning Routine As any mom can attest to, when you have little ones at home every morning despite your best intentions everything can go awry swiftly and quickly. I still remember how every morning when I had an infant and preschooler there seemed to be some sort of curveball that caught me off guard. Now that my children are in … [Read more...]
No One is a Perfect Homemaker
{Post by Heather} There was a day before I had children where my house was “just” a house. It was a place for my furniture, my clothes and shoes. A place for me to crash after working all day. A place to eat food, watch tv or hang out with friends. I didn’t mind that the walls weren’t painted or even decorated. I cleaned when it seemed too dirty. I picked up … [Read more...]
Must-Have Gadgets for Homemakers
If you have been married or had a baby, then chances are you created a gift registry. Since then, how many of you have looked back and thought, “I wish I would have asked for this instead of that?” Here are some of my favorite items I use around the house that should make it onto everyone’s gift or wish list. They just make homemaking easier. … [Read more...]
DIY “Bleach”
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} The smell of my house when the bleach load went in the washer was almost unbearable. I am glad I found a recipe to create my own DIY bleach. I can’t even believe this exists! Two years in … [Read more...]
One All-Purpose Cleaner for Everything
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} A year ago I completely changed how I clean the house. I used to buy one cleaner for windows and glass, another cleaner for the toilets, one for the floors and even another for wiping down … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: When You Need to Connect in Faith
I need to connect in faith with other stay-at-home moms who love God. I would not be the mom that I am without my faith in God. With Jesus' example of self-sacrifice and service to others, I have a source of strength and a mission for my motherhood. It is not about me; it is about what I can do because of Him. I know not all moms are believers, or even subscribe to a … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: When You Need Homemaking Tips
Despite popular opinion, life as a stay-at-home mom is not all lunches with the ladies and eating bon bons on the couch while catching up on our "soaps". (I think the last time I watched a soap opera was in high school!) No, there is REAL work to be done as a mom, wife and homemaker. Yes, the real "dirty" work is necessary, so we have put together a resource to help make … [Read more...]
Clean the Bathroom in 5 Minutes!
I DREAD cleaning the bathroom. I love when it is clean, but for some reason the 'doing' requires motivation. With potty training children in the house almost nonstop for the past few years, I definitely have my reason for keeping the bathroom as clean as possible-little hands, dirty toilet...yuck! With children in the house, if I am going to get anything clean, my method … [Read more...]