The freedom moms blog

How To Get The House Clean When You’re Completely Overwhelmed

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 […]

How To Help Your Children Learn To Clean Their Room

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 Hidden Benefit Of A Home Routine

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 […]

The Value Of Being Prepared In The Home

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 […]

Challenges And Blessings Of Being An Older Mom

I recently had a baby at 42 years old, and while being pregnant again definitely had some challenges, it’s the raising of another baby that I believe might scare some folks away. I thought it might be helpful to discuss both the challenges and the blessings of being an older mother. I will be speaking […]

How To Be A Calm Mom Even When Life Is Crazy

Nobody really wants to be known as the mother who is always losing her temper, or the neurotic mom, or the grumpy mom, or the mom who is always being a martyr. Most mothers that I know (myself included) want to be known as a calm, fun, loving mom. Unfortunately, what ends up happening, unless […]