Make Your (Rental) Home a Haven

One of the biggest drawbacks to renting your home is not having the freedom to make changes in order for it to represent your family’s personality. My husband and I have been renters since the almost six years we’ve been married. We have lived in three very different places and have struggled with not being [...]

Mother/Wife and Everything Inbetween

To see the book, go here.
Hello all! I have missed writing so much this week! The old computer isn’t quite the same yet, as we need to wipe the hard drive and can’t do that until we copy all of our pictures to a discs, but it’s working enough to post this small bit I’ve [...]

My new job title

I don’t know about you, but when I tell people that I am a stay-at-home mom their eyes glaze over. Or they raise their eyebrows in judgement. Or worse still they immediately assume my husband is a lawyer or a doctor or something that makes us rich so that I don’t “have” to work. *chuckle, chuckle!* All [...]

Hydrogen Peroxide 3% – Household Uses

Man, oh man. I hate bleach. I bet you do too, right? It’s stinky, poisonous, kills your clothes, kills our environment… So many, many more. But we need it. We need it if we are going to continue to banish paper towels from our homes and instead choose rags and towels. I don’t know about you, [...]

To Do, Ta Da!

                                                     
So I haven’t been around much. It seems like I either blog a lot or not at all. I sure love Mondays, though, because everyone else is up and running again. Am I the only one who just can’t function on Mondays??? I feel like such a Non-Super Mommy, like Grumpy Lazy Queen, maybe? [...]

A different place for us.

Ok guys. We have three options that I’d like to get your honest opinion of. Our wants and needs for a house are the following: cleanliness. The house that we live in now is constantly popping up with new a funky places for mold. For instance – in every outside corner, in the bathroon, behind [...]

Breathe.

Slow.
Down.
Breathe.
There’s time. Don’t rush. Concentrate on one thing right now.
Finish. Stand up. Breathe.
Concentrate on one thing again.
Rhythm. Flow. Breathe.
Meditate on each dish. Fold each piece.
This is for love.
Knead. Wrap. Sweep. Dust. My work is love. My work is love.
Concentrate. Breathe.
Tomorrow more can be done. Love your work for today.
Ahhhh. There. Now I can get back.

Just a gentle shout out

…to all you green moms out there. Read this and feel inspired. You aren’t the only ones…
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/15/news/ecomom.4-223754.php

How to: Cloth Diaper

 
Cloth Diapering:
Since diapers are SO expensive it’s important to consider all of your options. It’s also mostly important to consider cloth diapers because of the impact that disposables have on our environment. God has called us to, literally, be stewards of this land he has blessed us with. I believe that this is a [...]