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Homemaking

November 17, 2008: Menu Plan Monday- November 17
Comments: 6 | Categories: Homemaking , Menu Plan Mondays

I am really enjoying my two week menu planning! It feels so good to get it out of the way all at once, rather than to have to meal plan each week, and it takes much less time to just do an extra week while I'm already at it. For...

October 15, 2008: Q&A: Phone calls and visits in the midst of a schedule
Comments: 13 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

I am still trying to figure out what to do with regards to visiting others (friends, people who need encouragement) and also talking on the phone ( to just say hi, for example talking to a friend who I haven't seen in a while, and to encourage others, and to...

September 17, 2008: The Walk of a Weary Woman
Comments: 1 | Categories: Biblical womanhood , Faith , Homemaking

This refreshing guest post from Stephanie spoke deeply to me, as I know that it will to you, too. It needs no other introduction, so just read on... For many years I have struggled under my own expectations, or a list of what I “thought” I was to do to...

September 11, 2008: Natural solutions for cleaning tough stuff
Comments: 19 | Categories: Going green , Homemaking , Natural living

Just in time for my massive house cleaning day tomorrow (before I go on vacation, I always like to try to leave my house spic and span, because it's just so much more restful to come home to!), the perfect Green Guide newsletter dropped into my inbox.Their article on Furry...

August 14, 2008: Extreme Frugality: Attitude
Comments: 7 | Categories: Frugality , Good stewardship , Homemaking

If you haven't been reading her recent series on Extreme Frugality, I'd recommend you make a beeline over to Days to Come. Jeana has been taking a good, hard look at our concepts of frugality, our priorities, how far we're willing to take it, and what it looks like in...

July 31, 2008: Why I think God may have sabotaged our internet...
Comments: 9 | Categories: Biblical womanhood , Faith , Homemaking

So, the internet still isn't working. (Then how, you ask, am I posting this? I'm on my husband's work laptop while he's out with a friend for the evening, using a unlocked network in the area). Briefly tonight, the power went out twice and the laptop could no longer connect...

July 16, 2008: Small and trivial it is not!
Comments: 4 | Categories: Biblical womanhood , Homemaking

The GirlTalkers have been focusing lately on the glorious role and responsibility of homemaking, and how I have been encouraged by these incredible quotes. In a culture that demeans the honorable tasks of loving and serving one's husband, raising and training children and making the home a haven and place...

July 9, 2008: Taking some of the work out of household chores
Comments: 11 | Categories: Homemaking

Although I absolutely, positively, 100% adore my job as a homemaker, I will confess that there is one teensy, tiny part of it that I don't adore so much... The cleaning!!! (Did I hear an amen, sister?)In fact, not only do I not love cleaning, but there are a few...

June 23, 2008: I need to have less "stuff"
Comments: 17 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

In conversations of late between my husband and I, one of the resounding themes that keeps coming is that we just have too much "stuff"! Now, I don't think that most people who visited my home would feel that it was terribly cluttered or knick-knacky, or that we were bursting...

June 7, 2008: Tweaking my schedule
Comments: 8 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

For the last couple of months, I've been working hard to get my children and I onto a more effective schedule. It's not always easy, especially with babies and toddlers, who are so unpredictable and require so much help and attention. I think, though, that it is possible and I...

April 15, 2008: I’m busy, busy, terribly busy
Comments: 8 | Categories: Biblical womanhood , Homemaking , Our family

(Anyone singing along with me?) I have a confession to make. In the midst of all of this blog transfer stuff, and multiple things going wrong, and a deadline for 5 photo books I bought approaching tomorrow (which I didn't adequately plan for being able to complete), and still keeping...

March 1, 2008: I remember what it feels like to have an organized kitchen!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking , In the kitchen

After a week of squeezing in bits of organizing time whenever I could find them, at last, the majority of my kitchen organization is done! I'm trying to follow Org Junkie's Monthly Round-Up this year, using my Fridays (which are my household projects days) to work on organizing projects. Since...

February 27, 2008: Accomplishing tasks with little ones underfoot
Comments: 11 | Categories: Babies , Homemaking , Mothering

Since posting my schedule, I've been asked several times about how I am able to clean and accomplish so much with very young children (mine are 3 and 9 mths). First of all, I just want to let it be known that I do not accomplish my schedule perfectly every...

February 19, 2008: At long last- the schedule is finished!
Comments: 14 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

On Saturday evening, I breathed a sigh of relief because my new daily schedule is complete. I have been working on it as much as possible over the course of the last several weeks, examining what wasn't working with what I currently had, my strengths and weaknesses, my priorities (and...

February 12, 2008: Scheduling series- A continued look into my own process
Comments: 1 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

Continuing from yesterday's post, here is the rest of the process that I have been working through as I create a new daily and weekly schedule for myself (and my kiddos). The third major thing that I did was to sit down with my worksheets from 24 Hours is All...

February 11, 2008: Scheduling series- A glimpse into my own process of creating a schedule
Comments: 4 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

For those who missed the first two posts in this series, here they are:Struggling with a scheduleScheduling issues continued- what are our pitfalls? This is the week that I am really hunkering down and creating my new weekly and daily schedule, which I plan to post as soon as it...

January 30, 2008: Scheduling issues continued- what our are pitfalls?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

Edit: For those who didn't read the first post in this scheduling series, here is the link to it. Before I had babies, I was one of those people who never really stops. I had an incredibly full schedule all through high school and university, balancing a heavy course load...

January 25, 2008: Q&A: Struggling with a schedule
Comments: 2 | Categories: Homemaking

I struggle with a schedule and getting everything done and still spend time with my little ones, get enough sleep, etc. It seems like wherever I spend my time, I feel guilty for neglecting the other things. Any tips? Katie Perhaps you are like me, and are just a bit,...

January 7, 2008: Q & A: Healthy freezer meals requested!
Comments: 13 | Categories: Homemaking , In the kitchen , Nutrition

Any chance I could talk you into doing a post on healthy freezer meals? Do you freeze many meals? I'm getting ready to have my third baby and would rather do this than rely on prepackaged frozen meals. My oldest is barely over three, so I know time will be...

January 4, 2008: An inside look at the Polestar planner
Comments: 3 | Categories: Homemaking

Someone requested a look at the inside of the Polestar planner. This is what each week looks like. Sorry the pictures aren't great (a photographer, I am not!), but the headings above the columns are Family Appointments, Meals/Kitchen, Home, and then the left list is To Do, the right list...

January 1, 2008: Where would I be without my Polestar planner?
Comments: 13 | Categories: Homemaking

Ahh, there is nothing quite like beginning a new year with a fresh, new planner. And for the first time in years, I know which calendar I will use, because I have found something that I absolutely love! In fact, I bought my 2008 version about 3 months early, when...

December 12, 2007: Making my home a haven- Day 7 and 8
Comments: 7 | Categories: Homemaking

Alright, time for some major humbling. Here, for all the world to see, are some pictures of how our family room/playroom looked yesterday afternoon: I haven't been completely following along with the Making our Homes a Haven challenge, although I have been trying to stick to my morning routine, and...

December 11, 2007: Keeping babies occupied
Comments: 7 | Categories: Babies , Homemaking

Last week I stumbled upon a brilliant solution for keeping a younger baby occupied while getting housework or cooking done: The laundry basket! Why didn't I think of it before??? It's perfect for little ones just learning to sit up, because they are happier than being in a chair, all...

December 5, 2007: Making my home a haven
Comments: 4 | Categories: Homemaking

Although I've been reading about Crystal's challenge all week, I didn't have the time to really get going on Monday (my Nana was visiting and took me and the children out for several hours). Yesterday, I did get my morning routine written and accomplished, though. Here it is: Up by...