Bread Is My Extra
by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:00 PM
“A mom with four kids five and under does not have time to bake her own bread.”
If someone had told me that before I was a mother, I would have agreed emphatically. That woman must be so worn out! She doesn’t need extra work. She should buy bread.
Well, guess what? I have four kids; the oldest is barely five; the youngest two are twins, for heaven’s sake. I am worn out and I don’t need extra work.
I still bake my own bread. (Not always, but regularly.)
If I find myself with ten minutes where both... READ MORE
Memo From God
by Karen Edmisten in Homemaking on Sunday, October 23, 2011 9:18 PM
“But that’s my birthday!” my daughter protested. “How can you go on my birthday?”
My husband and I teach baptism classes in our parish, and I’d signed us up for June, oblivious to a date that should have been uppermost in my mind: the day my second daughter would turn 13.
“Ummm,” I fumbled, “well, you know we never seem to do parties on the actual day. We already talked about having the slumber party Friday night, didn’t we?”
She murmured assent and slumped away, carrying on her shoulders the weight... READ MORE
Easter vs. Christmas
by Daria Sockey in Homemaking on Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:14 PM
This week I’ve been spring cleaning like a crazy woman. I shopped for not one but two formal dinners. Prepared and served a Passover meal complete with a roast leg of lamb on Thursday, rushing out to mass afterward. Made a whole separate grocery run just to buy several shopping bags full of candy. And went to Church one or more times every day this week.
But at any point, if I began to feel stressed, I simply reminded myself that at least this was NOT Christmas. And with that single thought I’d... READ MORE
10 Simple Birthday Ideas
by Kate Wicker in Homemaking on Friday, April 15, 2011 6:00 AM
Growing up, my mom always made a big deal about my brothers and my birthdays. There was cake to be sure, usually a rainbow bouquet of balloons, and a gift or two.
But that’s not really what they made our birthdays so special. It was the way Mom made you feel, the way she’d serve a favorite breakfast, or tuck a secret birthday card beneath your pillow for you to find before you went to bed on your birthday night. It was the way she greeted you in the morning, immediately singing, “Happy Birthday”... READ MORE
Is Do-It-Yourself Doable?
by Kelly Dolin in Homemaking on Monday, April 04, 2011 6:00 AM
Lent is a perfect time for cleaning and purging both our souls and our homes. I am tackling the Forty Bags for Forty Days and doing much better than last year.
We are also in the middle of a minor home renovation. I just finished painting the bathroom. This is step one in the transformation of ugly bathroom #1. I will not be posting before and after shots—maybe an after shot, but, believe me, the before is far too hideous (and that’s ignoring the fact that three young boys regularly use this facility).... READ MORE
The 30 Day Plan
by Kate Wicker in Homemaking on Friday, February 25, 2011 6:00 AM
Katie Conner, a mom of six, used to dread dinnertime until she started practicing once-a-month cooking (OAMC), a cooking method also known as bulk or freezer cooking that involves setting aside a day or two to cook a month’s worth of meals and then storing them in the freezer.
“It never fails. My kids all get crabby starting at 5 o’clock. For awhile I just thought I didn’t like to cook, but I realized I just didn’t like the circumstances under which I usually had to cook,” she says. “Now I concentrate... READ MORE
Kids Live Here
by Danielle Bean in Homemaking on Monday, January 31, 2011 6:00 AM
I have been thinking lately about housework and we women who avoid it, let it pile up, feel stressed about it, look for shortcuts to handle it, and ignore it until we find ourselves shouting at it and all around it, and I have all too often come to this conclusion:
We are a bunch of whiny babies.
Whiny babies can be loosely defined as — persons who refuse to accept reality quietly.
By refusing to accept housework, we are refusing to accept reality. Scientifically verifiable reality.
Every mother... READ MORE
Choosing Home
by Daria Sockey in Homemaking on Monday, January 17, 2011 6:00 AM
Last week I turned in my letter of resignation.
I’m going home.
A little over three years ago, economic necessity forced me to find full time work outside the home after years of the large family/homeschooling lifestyle. I figured I could handle it: only four kids at home and three of those in high school or college. They certainly didn’t need me at home most of the day. And I could phone in food prep directions during my commute home so that dinner would be at least partly prepared when I arrived.... READ MORE
Come One, Come All!
by Kate Wicker in Homemaking on Friday, December 03, 2010 6:00 AM
Just as the Samaritan woman reaches out to a thirsty stranger who reveals himself as Jesus (John 4:4-42), we, too, are called to share our Catholic homes with others by living a life of hospitality and to open our doors and our lives to others.
And what better time to extend a warm welcome to others than during the Advent season?
One holiday tradition I’ve embraced that lends itself to hospitality without the formality (or work!) of a long, sit-down holiday dinner, is to host a cookie swap play... READ MORE
Love Lasts a Lifetime
by Ana Braga-Henebry in Homemaking on Friday, September 03, 2010 6:00 AM
Although her birthday is in the first week of August, the whole end of summer brings my dear auntie (Lygia Antunes de Oliveira) to mind.
She was a second mother to me and is a huge part of my life. She was always there, helping with the “younger ones”, a category to which I still belong to this day, being the seventh of ten children. She would babysit, decorate, bake, and help with homework, speech-writing and poetry-memorizing. She would rejoice with us and comfort us when needed. She may have... READ MORE
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