The freedom moms blog

I have moms ask me all the time how to get their husbands more involved with housework. This is a very tricky question, and I’ve always felt that it was more appropriate for a marriage counselor to tackle than me. I’m excellent at teaching you to manage and motivate your children. But a husband is […]

Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed…when it seems like everything is going wrong and you just can’t catch a break? Or does everything just feel hard, like it takes a tremendous effort to just get the basics taken care of?  I have found, in my own life, that when my home is a disorganized, messy […]

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 […]