Over the years of early motherhood and homeschooling, I have learned to be flexible with our home cleaning routine. At times, we have hired help to wash...

Perhaps most parents want to know the secret behind keeping tidy homes and teaching children to clean up after themselves. It feels nearly impossible at...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.  — Ecclesiastes 3:1  After our trip alone to Taos this summer,...

Early last week, the girls and I baked cookies together before bedtime. It was a necessary therapy following several days of harrowed conflict and petty...

A large farm table sits at the center of our home between windows and books and doorways to other rooms. It is the place where...

As the dreary (and rather long) winter weather draws to an end, something shifts in us too, doesn’t it? The spring sunlight has a way...

When we first bought this home last year, several large projects needed our immediate attention, meaning repairing leaks and holes and years of abandonment had...

Our boys have shared a room since their crib days, something I will always cherish for them. Through their childhood, it has given them someone...

Cooking is both simpler and more necessary than we imagine. It has in recent years come to seem a complication to juggle against other complications,...

In the South, we really have two seasons: hot and cold. Since our family has always lived in an older home with small (and shared)...