Category Archives: Homemaking

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Work Shift, by Anne Bogel

  Surely one of the greatest challenges for Christians is to step outside their culture (even the culture within the community of brethren) to accurately determine God’s best plan for their families, and once they have understood it as well as they can, to live it in the middle of the culture in which they […]

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Sprucing Up the Porch for Autumn

Summer is winding down, as I have already mentioned. The big blue pots on either side of the front door have been planted up with red geraniums, a vine-y thing, and a looks-like-petunias-but-its-really-something-else-I-can’t-remember-cascade-y thing. They have been pretty accents on the porch, but they have suffered from forgetful watering several times and the stress of […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 7 — Mundane or Maniacal?

Other Cerebral Homemaking posts: Part 1: Wrapping My Mind Around My Work  Part 2: Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G-Word Part 4: Blast Physics! We Have to Aim Just a  Little Higher Part 5: Time Matters Part 6: We […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 6 – We Like What We’re Good At: Developing Competency

 Competence drives satisfaction. We like what we are good at, and we shy away from things we think we are not good at. Car mechanics, baking pies, volleyball, spreadsheets, public speaking, settling a fussy baby, higher math – it doesn’t matter what it is – if we have had some experience and success doing it, […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 5 – Time Matters

All this thinking about thinking about our work as homemakers may have left you thinking: well that’s great, Lori, to decide that I need to improve my job skills and develop a vision for my home and set my aim higher than the level of my goal, but the thing is, I have a life and I just […]

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Stressed, Mom? Look at Your Fridge and Learn a Lesson

Staged photo — I would not be able to function with my fridge covered with fluttering papers like this! Well, I would not be able to function happily, at least. There is a fascinating short article over at the Wall Street Journal web site: The Stuff of Families. Researchers studied 32 middle-class families for four years […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 4: Blast Physics! We Have to Aim Just a Little Higher

Previous articles in the Cerebral Homemaking series: Part 1: Wrapping My Head Around My Work Part 2: “Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis” Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word In the last Cerebral Homemaking article, we talked about developing a vision for our homes and […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word

This is cup-of-tea length, so grab a treat and a pen and paper while you’re at it. Let’s go. Here is the thing: before you can train your homemaking thinking in better directions so you can get better homemaking behavior, you’ve got to begin with the end in mind. I know what you’re thinking – […]

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Cerebral Homemaking, Part 2: “Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis”

 Many people think of homemaking as a job that involves a cycle of doing chores and producing meals and bringing in the necessary stuff that keeps the human beings living in the home able to do what they do and the homemaker as a kind of unpaid domestic who performs those duties. Others prefer to […]

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Cerebral Homemaking, Part 1: Wrapping My Mind Around My Work

I’m a thinker – not necessarily a deep thinker, you understand – but I am a thinker. As I go about my life my mind is always working away at this or that idea or conundrum or situation. All of us want to improve ours and our loved ones’ lives, but at the risk of […]

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