For me, one of the most challenging aspects of homemaking for me is keeping control of all the clutter. Let's face it: time is a precious commodity, which means decluttering your home can feel like a challenge you don’t want to undertake. It's overwhelming, and to be honest, I avoid it like the plague at times. Still, even I realize decluttering is important because it can really help to make your ...
Motherhood
Parenting Hacks for a Successful, Less Stressful New Year
Let's be honest for a moment, ok? Motherhood is hard. Parenting is hard. It starts with sleepless nights and crying babies and morphs over the years to sleepless nights as you worry over out-late college students, sassy teenagers, and more laundry than you could ever have imagined. As moms, we have to manage it all. I'm not always good at it. If I ever manage to keep all the balls in the ...
Keeping it together while your spouse is away
When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband was routinely working several hours away and often had to stay overnight for meetings. It was just the two of us, so the distance was easy to manage until I found myself admitted to the hospital in preterm labor while he was on the road. Living in south Mississippi, I have several friends whose husbands work offshore, and I'm always amazed by ...
What’s Your Purpose? And why it matters….
Do you get bogged down by your problems and forget your purpose? I know I do! There is power in remembering our purpose... One day, right at 20 years ago, I was driving a beat-up old Peugeot up a winding hill in Nairobi, having a conversation with Henry Blackaby, the author of Experiencing God. The memory sticks in my mind for several reasons. First, I was driving ...