How do you take control of your mood when life gets in the way and distracts you from your focus?
How to Take Control of Your Mood {When Life Distracts}Read More
How do you take control of your mood when life gets in the way and distracts you from your focus?
How to Take Control of Your Mood {When Life Distracts}Read More
It isn’t easy to overcome fear and anxiety. We need true inner calm, and that can only be found from one place. Here’s how I’ve found peace.
To make your heart and home beautiful, you have to first focus on your heart. It will make an impact not just in your own home, but on society at large.
It’s all too easy to consider all the hardships and trials of motherhood. So let’s pause today and look at why we love being a mom…and let’s share it.
Juggling the demands of working at home calls for summer organization tips! Here are some great resources to help as you prepare for summer and kids being home.
Summer Organization Tips for Work-at-Home Moms (and Other Moms Too!)Read More
Let’s face it: motherhood is challenging, and one of the challenges we can face is boredom. Let’s talk about staying positive and avoiding that mom boredom!
How to Stay Positive and Avoid Being Bored as a MomRead More
Hearing from God is worth the effort. Our restless and frazzled minds are soothed in the presence of God…and yes, we can even enjoy it!
Enjoy Hearing from God—Even If You Never Thought You CouldRead More
Inspired by the moms in my life, here’s a Mother’s Day gift guide for healthy minded moms and encouragement for you to keep up the great work.
Transform your son’s or daughter’s taste buds by trying these 6 ways to help your children eat their veggies.
What do you do when your child needs healing, especially of the spiritual or emotional variety? Here’s my story.
Only one thing is certain about life: change is right around the corner! Suddenlys is Sacred Signpost #6 and suddenlys can be both miraculous (think sudden blessings, healings, visitations from God, and such)and disastrous (think hurricanes, tornadoes, sudden deaths, and such)–or simply riveting change. Years ago, in the midst of an enormous change that involved moving …
How do you involve your family and also celebrate a Christ-centered Easter? Here are some ideas and an invitation for you to share yours.
Having a Christ-Centered Easter: Ideas for FamiliesRead More
Making Resurrection Cookies is one of our staples for celebrating Easter with our family.
You have so much to do that taking care of yourself might not be your top priority. How do you take care of the whole person, body AND soul?
Staying in touch with teens is important to every parent I know…but how do you do it when you are NOT a night owl? Here’s my strategy and a few tips.
Staying in Touch with Your Teens…Even When You’re Not a Night OwlRead More
Are you the mom who does it all? If so, this post is a reminder that you are a person too…someone who needs cared for and looked after (with tips to help).
For the Mom Who Does it All (Except Take Care of Herself)Read More
Since Christmas Eve is just a couple of days away, we thought it would be encouraging to share a few of our favorite Christmas Eve traditions for keeping Christ at the center of Christmas, and even more important, at the center of our lives.
Favorite Christmas Eve Traditions for Celebrating ChristRead More
Instead of running yourself ragged during the holidays, destress and refresh using these tips so that you can enjoy this special time of year.
Why You Need to Destress and Refresh for the HolidaysRead More
Today is a very special day here at Keeper of the Home. So special, in fact, that we’ve been hinting about it here and there for several weeks in our weekly newsletter, on the Facebook page, on Instagram. I guess you could say we’re a little excited about the video we have to share with …
Find out about a great product for babies in this Jenuinely Pure review and giveaway.
When we realized that Christmas had become commercialized in our home, it inspired us to start helping our kids give great gifts. Here’s our story.
Helping Your Kids Give Great Gifts {Giving Healthy and Thoughtful Presents}Read More
Feeling overwhelmed and afraid? New momma, don’t fear – you can’t ruin a baby! Here’s grace for new moms, and any other mom feeling confused and stressed! Note: This post might not be saying what you think it is. It tells my story of mothering, but it isn’t prescriptively telling you to do it my way. …
You can’t ruin a baby {grace for the mom feeling confused & overwhelmed}Read More
There are a lot of differing views on how Halloween should or shouldn’t be celebrated, but I think as moms who work hard to prioritize our family’s health, avoiding a bagful of tooth-rotting, immune-system crushing candy is pretty high on the list. But whether you allow your kids to trick-or-treat, or attend a local fall …
Our awesome trick for taking away Halloween candy (without a fight)Read More
The weeks and days leading up to Oliver’s birth were a whirlwind. We had only returned from 3 months of traveling/working/living in Europe 8 weeks before. Right on the tails of that, we were trying hard to finish up the homeschool year, do some decluttering around the house, and run two huge work events, right …