Organizing Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

How One Couple in the Arctic Got Over Nagging

by Joanna Sawatsky | Aug 18, 2021 | Homemaking

Sheila here! Today I’m turning the blog over to Joanna, my awesome co-author with The Great Sex Rescue, and our resident statistician and super smart person. She’s responsible for all the data that we derive from our surveys, and for running all of the...

“Let’s Go to The Beach” Revisited–Plus More Mental Load!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2021 | Doing Life Together

What happens when women carry the mental load for the whole family? It can be exhausting! Last June, my series on the blog was on mental load and emotional labor, and how draining it is for women to have to remember everything and keep all details straight, and how...

What to Do When Mr. Clean Marries Mrs. Messy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 1, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

What do you do when you have different standards for housework? It’s Monday, the day that I usually try to tackle a reader question, and today I want to talk about what to do when you’re a little messy and he’s a neat freak. But before I get to that,...

Clutter Hurts Your Marriage. It Just Does.

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Aug 24, 2018 | Homemaking

Does how we keep our houses affect our marriages? Short answer: yes. But that doesn’t mean that we all need to have Pinterest-perfect homes that are expertly curated to our personal style. Kathi’s here today with some easy and practical tips for how to...

Creating the Bedroom of Your Dreams–Even if Your Budget is a Nightmare

by Kathi Lipp | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized

What’s your idea of the bedroom of your dreams? Once a month my good blogging buddy Kathi Lipp, from Clutter Free Academy, is going to be joining us (and I’m visiting her blog, too!). Kathi is so down-to-earth and so funny, and we actually know each other...

Top 10 Ways Not to Be a Miserable Mama

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 15, 2016 | Family

Why does our culture think that it’s inevitable to be a miserable mother? Today Lisa Hensley from Delighting in My Days is here to give us a pep talk! Here’s Lisa: I do a lot of reading about motherhood. This is both because I am a mom and because I write...