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5 Things You Can Do This Week for a Happy(er) Thanksgiving Next Week + Giveaway!

By Lori | Published: November 12, 2012

Thanksgiving is among my favorite holidays, but the days are long gone when all it required of me was a healthy appetite and the willingness to be kissed by various relatives. Let’s face it — Thanksgiving is a project, a large one for some and a smaller one for others, but a project that requires […]

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Cerebral Homemaking, Part 9: Homemaking is So Daily

By Lori | Published: November 1, 2012

It’s totally right for the kitchen to look like this when heavy cooking is happening — the problem comes when we start to accept leaving it that way. “Life is so daily” is a common quotation of uncertain provenance, and it lends itself to endless variation. “Marriage is so daily,” “Parenting is so daily,” “Exercise […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 8 – Not a Kid Anymore

By Lori | Published: October 3, 2012

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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My Clothing: Editing, Organizing, Decluttering

By Lori | Published: September 21, 2012

Editing, organizing, and decluttering clothing is one of the responsibilities that comes with the blessing of abundance. I doubt my great-grandmothers had to give much time to this chore, but I have found the dressing and laundry parts of my days go much more smoothly if I spend about an hour every few months going […]

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Think Like a Chef

By Lori | Published: September 19, 2012

One of the big moments in my evolution as a cook was when I gradually began to think like a chef instead of a recipe collector. I am not talking about taking up molecular gastronomy or wearing a toque and clogs in the kitchen or hiring illegal immigrants to wash dishes and prep produce. I […]

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Work Shift, by Anne Bogel

By Lori | Published: September 13, 2012

  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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Cerebral Homemaking Part 7 — Mundane or Maniacal?

By Lori | Published: September 3, 2012

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

By Lori | Published: August 17, 2012

 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

By Lori | Published: August 8, 2012

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

By Lori | Published: August 6, 2012

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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