Friday, November 29, 2019

It's That Time Again....


Time for the house to express the Joy of the Christmas Season.
I love the season of Advent, of waiting for the birth of Jesus and waiting, in the larger sense, for His Second Coming!

Our homes should reflect that sense of Joy and expectancy.

We have so many more people coming and going in our home these days. I am so happy to be sharing our space! We are exploring so many things, and I am so happy to have a place in which to welcome people.

This house has been a blessing in so many ways and for so many purposes.
A place that welcomed us to Havre de Grace, a place where we have welcomed children and have raised and schooled them. It has been full of our friends, and their friends.
Homeschooling activities and family activities.

And now we are in a new phase and it is opening it's doors to a different purpose.
We are hosting several studies and groups on a weekly basis, and it is really a pretty good meeting space! The Monday Bible Study has been coming here for years now, and we have a TV set-up that I can move in and out of my office so that we can watch the videos.
That group is so dear to my heart. They are some of the best friends that I have.
We have had the young adults here, off and on, and we have also started hosting our St Patrick's small group.
I started another study of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, because I really wanted to go through it again, and now they come here on Friday nights.

There will be more, God willing.

This is really the mission of the family in the world, to build up the community and the Church, and I love that our home is able to share in that mission. It makes our home a space where the Lord is able to minister to His people. It is an honor.

What an immense Blessing!

Friday, November 15, 2019

Motivated Moms App

This is pretty doggone exciting!

The housekeeping program that I use, and that I suggest to my clients, is now in beta testing as a app!

I have been using it this week, and I love it!
Here is a link to get the app when it becomes available to everyone!
https://motivatedmoms.com/

It is working pretty smoothly, and there have been very few glitches.

The only thing that I would like to see changed, is for the things that I don't get done on the day that they are scheduled to move onto the list for the next day, but I know that is asking a lot, and heck, I can always just go back and check them off as I do them, whenever that happens.

I am also thinking about writing out the systems that I want to work through in my story as I write.
There are things that I need to write through, because that's the best way for me to process the process.  I can see the steps as I write them out.

Stay tune, I'll post as I go.


I love the feel of home and I love the business of making my home and homeschool work as smoothly and "Grace"fully as possible. I want to help preserve the art of Domesticity, with the added Blessing of Home Education.
This is the purpose of this blog. To pass along some of the things I have learned, and am learning, about organizing, about cooking, about homeschooling, about time management and other tidbits.