In the last six years of parenting, I have learned many lessons. Messages that have stuck with me and that sometimes I need to go back to. Today I will share four of the most influential lessons on me as a parent! Lesson One – I Can’t Do Everything… but God Can There are many …
Screen-Free Sick Days
When children are sick (or if Mama is sick) and the children need to be kept busy or in bed for long periods of time, it is easy to resort to screen time to make this happen. However, there are a couple problems with this. One, sometimes it doesn’t work, and the children can be …
Gift Giving and Family Time – Preparing For St. Nicholas Day/Christmas
In the modern world, December is often a stress-inducing hubble-jumble of a month filled with parties, gifts, and overdrawn credit cards. As a family of faith, we want the month leading up to and including the birth of the prince of peace to look very different from this. So here is what we do to …
Preparing for the Future
Going Into the Future With Christ Planning for the future marks the end of our series: Ekonomia: Home Management Toward Heaven. Several weeks ago we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. Then we started building our home management system by Simplifying. …
Faithful Finances – Budgeting for Christ
Faithful Finances, Anyone? Hello and welcome to week in our series: Ekonomia: Home Management Toward Heaven. This is budgeting week! Several weeks ago we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. Then we started building our home management system by Simplifying. After …
Ekonomia: Cleaning in Home Management
Hello and welcome to week five in our series: Ekonomia: Home Management Toward Heaven. Cleaning is our priority this week. Several weeks ago we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. Then we started building our home management system by Simplifying. After …
Mastering Meals
Hello and welcome to week in our series: Ekonomia: Home Management Toward Heaven. This week we are mastering meals. Three weeks ago we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. Then we started building our home management system by Simplifying. And last …
Ekonomia: a Firm Foundation
Two weeks ago we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. And last week started building our home management system by Simplifying. This week we are going to start this program by working on simplifying. If you want to watch the video, …
Simplify for Home Management
Last week we introduced this new series, Ekonomia: Home Management toward Heaven. If you missed that article or video, check it out here. This week we are going to start this program by working on simplifying. If you want to watch the video, check it out below. Otherwise, continue reading for this content in blog …
Beginning Home Management toward Heaven
Today is the start of a series where we work on building a home management system from scratch. Or, at least, from wherever we are at. The content of this week’s article is also available in video format. You can watch the video by clicking here. Otherwise, continue on reading this article! Ekonomia: Home Management …