Posts Tagged ‘Homemaking’

Thank You, Dearest Lord

I abhor the kind of counseling often given to people, where the person presents a problem, and the solution given is simply to distract the person needing the counseling from their actual predicament, by reminding them how much easier a list of unrelated things in their life are.  A made-up example:  A woman has had [...]

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Tedious Tends to Happen

NOTE TO SELF: It’s better than chaos.

We all know those jobs that seem to never end. You feel like you are vacuuming that same spot over and over again. You feel like you are making a bed just a few hours before you will get into it and mess it up again. [...]

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A Cliché That Isn’t

If you look up the definition of cliché, you will find it to mean:
~a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.
Maybe I’m just a simplistic nut, but, if something is popular or common thought, maybe that [...]

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Creative, Fun Tip for Home!

Thanks to the lovely Kaycee Coffman, we now all have a really fun idea for what to do with our leftover kleenex boxes! Last night at her party, she showed me a home-management tip she read in Real Simple magazine for where to put the bags you aquire from all your shopping (only plastic [...]

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For Moms/Moms-to-Be, Looking for Just a Little Less Chaos

As any of you who have young children know, it seems like 1/2 your day is just cleaning the little darlings, and that is just fine by the way. But I think it was a Babies ‘R Us catalog where I first saw a “bathtime bag”. It has everything in it you could [...]

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