Hello! I’m Mystie. I am a homeschooling mother of five kids, two of whom are grown and moved out. I’ve been happily married for 22 years to my high school sweetheart. Although I’ve always been a slob by nature, I’ve been actively combatting that tendency for over a decade when I finally figured out I…
We talk a lot about getting organized, but do we stop to think about what we mean? What is it that we want when we say we’re working on this life project? Are we striving for chalkboard labels on ordered shelves or something deeper? What does organization mean to us? I think what we want…
Not only was last week a school break week, but we also had and have a string of hosting commitments that gave me the added commitment and deadline to get the house into a little better shape. Of course I had an unreasonably long list, but if I think about what I did get done…
Originally written and posted in August 2011 So I redid our memory work routine at the end of the 2010-2011 school year, for several reasons: It came to my attention that simply listening to the memory work, as we had been doing, was not sinking it in. They recognized familiar passages, and could fill in…
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Is self-help any real help at all? A few months ago when I published Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done, it started showing up as a highlighted new release in the “Christian self-help” category. That was not one of the categories I had selected when completing the publishing process. I believe I…
👤Login to Convivial Circle You can love your home – and the work it requires. Others make mom life look easy, but you end the day exhausted with still so much left to do. You wish someone could show you how to stay on top of a busy household, but right now it feels impossible….
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