Why Your Home Matters to God
Have you ever stopped to consider that your home matters to God? Homes were His idea in the first place!
Why Kindness Is The Most Important Thing to Add to Your Home
Wondering what you need to add to your home? Forget about possessions … kindness always is needed!
The Best Strategy for Decluttering Your Home
Feel like you’re drowning in stuff? Here’s the BEST strategy for decluttering your home.
4 Simple Steps to Getting Your Home in Order
Stop spinning your wheels and get your home in order with these four simple steps. Ever wonder how long it would take to get your home in order? A few years ago, I joked that if I sent my kids away for an entire summer, maybe I’d finally be able to get my home in…
How to Meet Your Family’s Needs the Proverbs 31 Way
When it comes to meeting your family’s needs, shopping just might be considered biblical. Some women love to shop. Some women hate to shop. Regardless of where you rank on a shopaholic scale, Proverbs 31:21-22 includes an interesting detail of a woman’s life: “She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her…
Keeping Busy at Home
Ever feel overwhelmed by the need to keep busy at home? Proverbs 31 shows there’s actually something really good about it. Have you ever found yourself in a position of not having anything to do at home? Is everything caught up? Are all your projects finished? Do you wonder what to do with an abundance…
Meal Planning and Preparation the Proverbs 31 Way
Get meal planning and preparation inspiration and ideas from the Proverbs 31 woman. Did you ever think you could find inspiration about grocery shopping or meal planning from the Proverbs 31 woman? Proverbs 31:14-15 shines the spotlight on how she fed her family: “She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food…
Cultivating A Willingness to Work at Home
The Proverbs 31 woman shows us it’s a really good thing to willingly work hard at home. It’s no doubt that the Proverbs 31 woman was industrious. As we dig into Proverbs 31, we find that after she was described as a wife, her description focused on her hard work and resourcefulness: “She looks for…
The One Kind of Haven That Fulfills
Finding a haven that fulfills doesn’t have to be impossible. In fact, it can be easier than you may realize. My Thursday night was not supposed to be like this. I planned a quiet evening at home with my husband and kids – after dinner together and a little post-dinner clean-up, we could have a…
Life’s Rainfall May Be a Lot More Necessary Than You’d Like
Just like it’s not the end of the world to get rained on, what if hardships aren’t the worst thing to happen to us?
Finding Something Sacred in the Middle of the Mundane
Tired of mundane tasks in your day? You actually can turn that mundane to something sacred. I know I’m not the only homemaker and haven creator who feels like everyday life is swamped with the mundane. Think about the never-ending piles of dirty dishes, then freshly washed dishes that need dried and put away. Or…
How to Create a Routine That Helps Your Day
Need some productivity or peace in your day? It’s time to create a routine! Ever wonder what a difference a daily routine can make? I happen to have a strange love and hate relationship with routines. I love the idea of freedom – having unplanned days where I can sleep in, eat when I please,…
How to Become a Haven and Bless the Sick
Want to bless the sick? You can become a haven by helping those who need it most. Over the past three weeks, my family’s been quarantined at home with an awful virus. Somehow, in all of our hustle and bustle, the contagious sickness worthy of a pandemic was passed to me and my son. And,…
7 Surprising Benefits Found in Social Distancing
Feeling discouraged about quarantines? You might be surprised, but there are quite a few benefits found in social distancing. Before March 2020, not many people heard of social distancing before. And for good reason, too – most people never contemplated what a quarantine really meant, and terms like “shelter in place” were foreign. Yet with…
12 Things You Need to Disinfect in Your Home (& How to Do It!)
Wonder why you need to disinfect your home? Learn why you should, along with how to do it, and 12 things you need to disinfect in your home. Ever wonder what the difference is between decluttering, deep cleaning, and disinfecting? For years, I thought that cleaning was cleaning. But the longer that I focus on…
How to Spend All Day with Children … and Enjoy It!
Not every mom spends all day, every day with her children. If you ever need to do it, how can you manage? And what can moms do if they’re home all day with children? As a mom of two pre-teens, I’ve spent my entire motherhood being a work-at-home, stay-at-home mom. I’ve homeschooled both my children…
10 Things to Do When You’re Stuck at Home
Stuck at home? Here are 10 things you can do! I can’t even guess how many times I’ve wondered how long it would take me to catch up on everything around my home. I’ve tried to guess how much time I’d need to finish my wish list of projects if I was stuck at home…
How to Be a Prepared Homemaker: Stock Up on These 20 Things
Wish you knew how to be a prepared homemaker? Start by stocking up on these 20 things! Over the past few weeks, a growing panic over the global pandemic has set in across America. The stock market keeps dropping, schools and businesses are closing, and toilet paper has vanished from store shelves. People who need…
You Never Know Who Might Need Your Haven
Who might need your haven? You’ll never know … until you invite others to your home. I needed a haven. I knew it. After writing about haven creation for years, I forgot that settling into a new house could be a long process. And as I packed up my family’s old haven and moved into…
5 of the Best Hospitality Books for Christians
Want to open your home to others? You’ll love the inspiration and help found in these five best hospitality books for Christians. When I was living on my own as a single 23-year-old, I wanted to invite people to my apartment, but what could I really offer them? I could think of plenty of excuses:…