Establish a House will be coming back in full force starting next Wednesday, January 21st!!! I began this series after a discussion in a facebook group about whether or not their families used tablecloths. I wrote a post about what we do and the response was overwhelming. It was so interesting to see what other […]
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Saving Clothes for Hand-Me-Downs
Today’s Establish a House post comes from a question I received on my facebook page. “A question for moms of large families! How do you save clothes for hand me downs? Limited space and many bins are taking over my closets with clothes I’m saving and I dread seasonal change outs or size changes. What’s […]
Good Music Brighter Children
Please welcome another guest blogger for the Establish a House series. This time the topic is music and the impact it has on our children’s lives. There is a giveaway at the end! Hello, I’m Sharlene Habermeyer. Thanks for letting me guest post today! I am a mother of five boys and the author of […]
Keeping Children’s Sensitive Skin Healthy
Welcome to another Establish a House post, written this time by Andrea! She has some great tips for keeping sensitive skin healthy. When my first child, Miriam, was about a month old she developed a terrible diaper rash. I tried baby powder and changing her more frequently and then plain cornstarch per my mother’s recommendation, […]
Five Ways to Immortalize School-Year Memories – Without Scrapbooking
As another school year starts to wind down Heather, the guest blogger for today’s Establish a House post, shares some ideas for keeping track of the memories that have been made. Welcome, Heather! We’re nearing the end of another school year, and if you’re like a lot of parents, you’ve taken your fair share of […]
Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
This month’s Establish a House posts will focus on mothers and how they deal with feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully through these guest posts you’ll be able to receive ideas on how to handle your own trying motherhood times! I thought it appropriate as we near Mother’s Day to focus on the good we ARE doing even […]
3 Ways to Get Some Me Time
This month’s Establish a House posts will focus on mothers and how they deal with feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully through these guest posts you’ll be able to receive ideas on how to handle your own trying motherhood times! I thought it appropriate as we near Mother’s Day to focus on the good we ARE doing even […]
God Bless the Innkeepers
This month’s Establish a House posts will focus on mothers and how they deal with feeling overwhelmed. Hopefully through these guest posts you’ll be able to receive ideas on how to handle your own trying motherhood times! I thought it appropriate as we near Mother’s Day to focus on the good we ARE doing even […]
Got a Question? Ask Away!
Someone submitted a question via facebook recently asking for help in sleep training young children for an Establish the House post. While that post is in the works (I want to get a variety of mothers giving their advice) I thought it would be a great idea to use today’s post as a way for […]
How I Potty Train My Children
Remember last week how I wrote about puke? I jinxed myself. Guess who ended up getting sick last Wednesday night? Yeah. Not very fun and it totally knocked me out, so much that my husband was teasing be about being a wimp. I hope I’m not setting myself up again with this week’s Establish a […]
Handling the yucky sickness
Establish a House is a series I run every Tuesday with posts that cover cleaning to cooking, discipline to diapers, and everything in between. You can read more about the series here. Today we are talking throw-up, vomit, puke, upchuck – whatever you call it at your house. It’s not pretty, very smelly but something […]
Where Did Your Ancestors Live?
For today’s Establish a House post I want to tell you about an amazing new web app called RootsMapper that shows you the birthplaces of your ancestors. You log-in with your FamilySearch account and then sit back and watch the fireworks. Really! It starts with you and then depending on how many generations you choose […]
Packing for Road Trips With a Large Family
We took the whole family to Yellowstone before dropping my oldest off at BYU-I. We were gone for four days. I love going on trips with my family! Packing for those trips however is a nightmare. Seriously, everyone with their own suitcase or bag (usually we end up with 10), where the clothes gets all […]
Stubborn or Determined? Defining Your Child’s Attributes
Several years ago, I had reached a breaking point. I was pregnant with my fourth baby. My 2-year-old son was wreaking havoc on my sanity. I remember one morning beginning with him cracking all of the eggs onto the kitchen floor. As I cleaned it up, he dumped the oatmeal from breakfast out of the […]
Chocolate Kisses
Ah summer! Where has your first month gone? It seems like you are flying away too quickly. So much to do, so much to experience, and all at double time. For instance, yesterday was a very important day in history. VERY IMPORTANT. Do you know what happened on July 7, 1550? EUROPEANS DISCOVERED CHOCOLATE!!! Up […]