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Writing Acrostic Love Notes + 2 Printables

Written by Erica Illsley, Contributing Writer ‘Tis the season for writing love letters or little love notes to your sweetheart or children. This is a little tutorial on how to write a simple love note called the acrostic, something you may have done in grade school but have forgotten about. Acrostics are great for highlighting… Read More

Making a Multi-Family Living Situation Work

Written by Erica Illsley, Contributing Writer We never had experience with making a multi-family living situation work until several months ago the dreaded happened! My husband and five children and I moved in with my in-laws. Yep, the thing we claimed we would never do became a reality. My husband was out of work for… Read More

Keeping Christ in Christmas Gifts Part 2

From, Contributing Writer Erica Illsley A great way to keep Christ in Christmas is to give Christ-centered gifts to others during the Christmas season. This list is an extension of our post last Christmas season that you can check out here. These gifts are not necessarily the most popular or brand-new items, some are gift ideas… Read More

Heart-Warming Fall Stew Recipe

From, Contributing Writer Erica Illsley Fall in our home brings the traditions of burning spice candles, putting out little pumpkin and leaf decorations, eating pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and my great-grandmother’s infamous applesauce cake but we cannot live without this heart-warming stew recipe. One year many moons ago we bought a new Rival Crock-pot and inside… Read More

Home Building Means Building Up Your Husband

Written by Erica, Contributing Writer Solomon, the writer of most of the book of Proverbs, encourages us as women to build up our homes. One aspect of home building you can include is the act and art of building up your husband and other family members. “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish… Read More

5 Helpful Hints to Keep Homemaking During Transition

Written by Erica, Contributing Writer The lives of women are in constant transition. The seasons and yearly calendar teach us that life could not stand still if we wanted it to. So, if we’re doing this thing called homemaking, there have to be some answers for those really tough times of transition. Maybe you’ve asked… Read More

Accommodating Children While Extending Hospitality

By Erica, Contributing Writer Imagine yourself as a child, walking into an unknown home and finding out you would be staying for hours with nothing to do besides playing with what your mother had stashed away in her purse for you and your siblings. What if all she had in her purse were a few… Read More

Tips I Learned From a Cleaning Lady

By Erica, Contributing Writer When my school day started in my junior high through high school years my mother was beginning to head toward work. She worked as an independent cleaning lady… I say cleaning lady because she was not a housekeeper, she was not a maid, she was the “cleaning lady.”   She usually had… Read More

For the Love of Laundry

By Erica, Contributing Writer Laundry is not always loads of fun but we sure do accumulate loads of it! A friend of mine with four boys always said, “I’m climbing laundry mountain.” Without an organized system of how to do your laundry, then you may quickly feel overloaded with the mountains of laundry that are piling up in… Read More

Keeping Christ in Christmas Gifts

By Erica, Contributing Writer We are used to the common phrase, “You can’t see the forest for the trees,” habitually at Christmas time we can’t see Christ for the Christmas gifts!  So, with that thought, I bring to you, this idea list that may boost your ability to help others (and yourself) include Christ in your… Read More

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