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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...

8 Things We Learned Getting Rid of Half of Our Stuff

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 29, 2016 | Uncategorized

This summer my mom moved in with us. It just made sense; she didn’t want to have to worry about snow removal in the winter and garden care in the summer, and we’re gone so much on speaking tours that our house is often empty. So we fixed up the rooms in...

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...

Reader question: Do Stay at Home Moms Have To Do All The Housework?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 5, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Homemaking

When it comes to splitting household chores, does the wife really have to do all the housework if she stays at home? Every Monday I like to try to answer a Reader Question, and today I’ve got two quite similar ones from two frustrated moms who feel that their...