I am living the life I always wanted. I grew up the oldest of 7, homeschooled, reading Anne of Green Gables and heaps of sappy Christian romance novels. To be honest, I never did even comprehend what problem modern women had with traditional, biblical womanhood. Not only did I swallow the conservative family party line…
A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul by Holly PierlotMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. Recommended by Willa & DeputyHeadmistress. In case my Tri-City friends are interested, the Mid-Columbia Library has ordered a copy. Overview A “Rule of Life” is a concept the author…
Begin with the introduction to the Reasonably Clean series to get the foundation and the linked table of contents for the series! The Original Reasonably Clean Source The chatty, photo-laden, good-humored original. The Reasonably Clean, Fairly Neat, and Comfortably Tidy House. A Pep Talk for Organization. In which I give you a secret to get…
Begin with the introduction to the Reasonably Clean series to get the foundation and the linked table of contents for the series! So, here’s the question: Is it better to have a big cleaning day or to clean a little bit every day? My point of reference for answering this question is laundry. With laundry,…
Begin with the introduction to the Reasonably Clean series to get the foundation and the linked table of contents for the series! Here are Auntie Leila’s rules for not getting to that overwhelmed stage quite so quickly or frequently. Personally, my current practice involves maybe a third of her rules, and several of them I’m…
To follow the entire series, see my table of contents for this Keeping House book club series. Willa has started an online book club for Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life, which has been on my to-read shelf for almost a year. She has already posted a bit of the summary of the preface…
See also the table of contents for the Keeping House series. This week Willa’s online book club is covering the first half of the first chapter, “What is Christian about Housekeeping?” Willa’s post is a good summary, so I will jump into a rabbit trail on the first section of the chapter, and hope someone…
See also the table of contents for the Keeping House series. Housekeeping Matters “So what really matters? Well, housework, among other things. It is not the only thing that matters, but it does matter. It matters that people have somewhere to come home to and that there be beds and meals and space and order…
See also the table of contents for the Keeping House series. In this chapter, the author spends some time developing the theme of home as found in the Bible and fleshing out a bit of what a home is and contending that households established by single folk are just as legitimate as those set up…
See also the table of contents for the Keeping House series. I’m not sure what I was thinking, assuming I’d be able to blog this week with Confection Selection — a fancified bake sale my mother and I coordinate at our church to benefit the local Pregnancy Center — on Saturday. My time in between…