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Telling your children to go clean their rooms may seem like an exercise in futility, but let’s think about it from a child’s perspective. Let’s say you are a child, and your room is a disaster. There is “stuff” everywhere and you are feeling incredibly overwhelmed because you have just been told to clean your […]

The last six months have been one major event after another in our home. I started having high blood pressure in my last six weeks of pregnancy, so I had to slow down. Then we had our 11th baby three weeks early. I was 42 years old when I had her, and I lost a

As a mother of eleven children, I have learned over and over the value of being prepared. Prepared for what? Well, prepared for any scenario I can think of (within reason). Being prepared is not just for preppers, conspiracy theorists, paranoid people, or people of specific religions. There is actually a lot of wisdom in

.o I Building positive habits as a stay at home mom will ultimately determine your success or failure in the job. And by success or failure, I’m talking about the way you feel about yourself as a stay at home mom, and not necessarily whether or not you remain in the role. Since you are

Henry Kissinger once said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, every road will get you nowhere.” If this quote doesn’t fully illustrate the importance of goal setting, then I don’t know what does! Goal setting is important in every place of our lives…financial, personal, health…and of course, in the home. I am constantly setting