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Reader Question: What if God’s Telling Me to Quit My Job–but He’s Not Telling My Husband?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 8, 2018 | Emotional Connection, Faith, Marriage

Should you quit your job? What if you feel like God is telling you to quit your job, but your husband doesn’t agree? This week at To Love, Honor and Vacuum we’re going to be talking about how we do family life–how we decide when to work, when to have...

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...

The Answer to the ICK–When Grumpiness Lurks

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 8, 2015 | Faith

Ever come to the end of a day and wonder, “how did I get so grumpy”? Today’s guest post is from Meredith Carr from Oceans Deep. She writes great stuff about seeing God in the midst of life with little ones! And today she’s going to give us an...

10 Ways to Banish the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 9, 2014 | Doing Life Together, Homemaking

Are the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues inevitable? I have always been a stay at home mom, but if you judge by the comments of many, I have the personality of a pea. If you’re a stay at home parent, you know what I mean. People constantly remark, “I don’t...

Reader Question of the Week: My Husband Won’t Help at all Around the House

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 20, 2013 | Emotional Connection, Homemaking

A reader wrote in recently quoting on of my posts: “We tend to clean the house when we see what needs doing. Men don’t work the same way. So if you ask him for a specific task, he’s more likely to do it.” She then added, What about when you give him...

Stay at Home Moms "Don’t Work a Day in their Lives". Really?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 12, 2012 | Family

Last night, on CNN, Democratic spokesperson and strategist Hilary Rosen announced that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life.” Now, I don’t want to get all political in this post, but what floored me is that someone who is actually paid as a...