I hope you know an incredible alfredo sauce is easy to make from scratch! People ask about this recipe a lot when I serve it so I thought I should pass it along to my readers. My pursuit as a homemaker is to always be improving in my cooking, and developing my “best of the best” READ MORE ..read more

Do you have an archive etched of stone of your husband’s reoccurring bad tendencies since the start of your marriage? (Although courtship offenses pre-marriage are on it as well, I am guessing.) The bitter framing of sins as “you always…” is poison to a man’s spirit. Is not what we all want freedom to be different than we have always been? READ MORE ..read more

You can assess an ideology by the aesthetics of its disciples. Or, as Douglas Wilson puts it, your theology comes out your fingertips. Or, as the subtitle of this post puts it, how you dress shows what you believe. And, there aren’t really any exceptions. When I describe “dressing well,” I don’t use it as synonymous with “dressing expensively.” I usually mean neat, READ MORE ..read more

Why do Christian girls have a hesitancy to admit Taylor Swift could be a witch? Well, the answer is – Modernity. What happens when a 34 year old woman has never learned discretion? Titus 2 says women must learn to be soberminded. Why is this trait important for women specifically? READ MORE ..read more

I will open with that I do not demonize, altogether, electronics or “screens.” I would then hasten to say some tools need more care with use than others. The scope of this post is not to provide a comprehensive theology of technology in dominion and the christian life (lol), but to just share one possible tip or strategy for homemakers. My best strategy for making good decisions about recreational social media time has been this perhaps unexpected little concept – really enjoy your phone time. You can thank God for it! When you decide that for-fun phone time is an intentional portio ..read more

An amazon order is worth a thousand words. Sourcing things well for your household is a skill, and one good homemakers need. There’s a framework I use for my sourcing analysis I heard somewhere, and that I now refer to as The Three Pillars of Shopping. The Pillars are: Fast, Good, and Cheap. You can choose two. Let’s take an example of something you may be needing to source – perhaps your new winter coat or some curtains for the dining room. T he first combination, Fast and Cheap, is easy. Just go to Walmart. But, it might not be Good. Second, Fast and Good. Also easy, just go ..read more

“Somebody cares for me.” An immovable part of the feminine life is tending the sick. You can give stressed, clinical, minimal care. Or, your home can be the best hospital in the world. I have seen an exceptional grocer bag my groceries (back when that happened) with an amount of innovation and care I would not have thought possible. Any job can be done at an elite level. So too is the life of helping the ill. Your children can have much better than the average American. They can have a keeper at home for a mother. Edith Schaeffer has a great chapter titled “A Shelter in the Time of ..read more

There are some strategies I think can contribute to it going well for young children and the family during a church service. A family being able to sit together with self control and worship without significant distraction is a great blessing and something worth laboring for. A lot of the work to make it possible is done at home during the rest of the week. Some seasons are harder to achieve this than others. Keep at it! It is worthy work. Below are tactics I think help it happen. I am not saying these are the only way, but I hope it could stir up some ideas that are helpful to you. “If you ..read more

I’ve done a Summer Reading Program for our family for a few years and I get questions about what we do and how it works. With some different tweaks and experimentation, I have found the way I like to do it best. I also do some adjustments for ages and reading ability. Looking back through my files, I tried to see how many pages kids usually read each summer. A couple years ago my son read 2,500 pages. My daughter was around 1,800 pages. They are elementary age and that was reading 15-20 chapter books. Reading is a BIG part of our family culture. We are huge fans of making a Family S ..read more

How do homemakers’ work differ based on how much money their husbands earn? In what ways must their work be the same? Let’s begin with the definition of a “good provider,” referring to husbands. Often people call a man a “good provider” as a codeword for that he makes a lot of money. But, I don’t think that is only how we should define a “good” provider. Any man can be a good provider if he has a vision for his livelihood and he is hard working. A pig farmer who has a plan that he wants to always be a pig farmer and in his vision that will likely not make ever more than a few thousand do ..read more