Pursuing Peace at Home
Sometimes managing household help and a driver is stressful for me when their inter-personal relationships get complicated. When unsettled issues linger, their work and the…
Category: Home management
Renovating the Homeschool Room
Who messes up on IKEA instructions?! I do! I did! With a day to redecorate our homeschool room before it was going to be documented…
Tree Lighting Project
I saw this idea on Pinterest and wanted to try it out myself. It’s a very easy way to light up your tree beautifully. Elijah…
Dapitan Rookie
I may be the last person who knows about the amazing finds at Dapitan, but in case you are clueless like me, here’s a place…
Four Weeks As a REAL Housewife
I get it now. Being a home maker is backbreaking work. I mean, a homemaker in North America. By the end of the day, my…
Eating Issues?
Is it a challenge to inspire your kids to eat? Are you running out of ideas that are healthy and reasonably simple to prepare? I…
Character, Character Building, Discipline, Home, Home management, motherhood, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Thoughts
It’s Your Mess: Deal with It Darling
By the end of our homeschooling morning, our “classroom” usually looks like someone threw a grenade into it. I’ve tried to manage the mess by…
Do’s and Don’ts for Living with Househelp
One of the reasons why I’m writing this is because some readers thought I came across as unreasonable and demanding about my househelp in my…
Strike 3!
Dealing with househelp issues. Sigh. Not my favorite. Here I am trying to deal… I really appreciate the ladies who work for us. They are…
The Ugliest Thing
We are living in an almost finished house. It’s not quite done which means we still have workers around from 8 to 5pm, Monday to…
Homemaking is Not Boring
As a homemaker, I never seem to be bored. Well, I do have five kids so that keeps me busy. But I am talking about…
A Place for Everything
For the obsessive compulsive women out there, like my sister-in-law (I love you Jenny!) or the women who need help organizing their things (that’s me!),…
