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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 […]

.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 […]

If you have found yourself frustrated and lacking motivation to get your home pulled together, cleaned up, and running more smoothly but you just don’t know where to start, then I’ve put together this resource for you! Twelve years ago, I was in this exact place. I had seven children under the age of twelve […]

In my first post of this clutter series, I discussed how important it is to keep your clutter magnets clear, you can read that clutter post here. Now that we are keeping those spots clear, let’s move onto a second common clutter problem that I frequently see in families with children… And let’s be clear, […]

At this point we all know that if we had less clutter in our homes, it would be SO much easier to keep clean. This is not new information. The problem is, actually making a clutter-free home a reality. It’s HARD! If we were just single ladies with no children, only responsible for our own […]