The Ultimate Better Mom Guide to a Homemaking and Hospitality

Why Homemaking Matters for the Life of Your Home

God has placed a high-calling on moms’ lives as we raise children who will impact the world, take care of our homes, love our husbands, and ultimately honor God with our lives. 

Together, we can use this next season to bring peace to our homes by cleaning, organizing our things, and connecting with others around our table through love and hospitality.

These Homemaking Ideas, Organizational Tips, and Resources Will Help Moms:

• Regain order and peace in their lives by purging and organizing and feeling productive.
  

• Manage their homes with direction and confidence.
  

• Refresh their own hearts as they learn to rest and recharge themselves.
  

• Learn to create and manage a schedule their family can thrive on.
  

• Practice hospitality even if they don’t know where to start—it’s all about learning!

Managing Your Home

1. Dear Stay-at-Home-Mom Who Doesn’t Know How to Manage Her Home: Did you prepare to become a stay-at-home mom who knows how to manage the home? Many of us took time to study and plan for a vocation but we never anticipated learning skills that would help us care for our homes and our families- but that doesn't mean we can't start now!

2. Regaining Order in Your Life This Fall: In this post, you realize sometimes life gets busy and you don’t realize just how busy until you’re overwhelmed. How about regaining order in your life as the fall approaches?

3. Dear Stay-At-Home-Mom Who Doesn't Know How to Manage Her Home: Did you prepare to become a stay-at-home mom who knows how to manage the home? Many of us took time to study and plan for a vocation but we never anticipated learning skills that would help us care for our homes and our families- but that doesn't mean we can't start now!

4. How to Set Up a Basic Schedule for Yourself: In this post, you’ll see that setting up a basic schedule can be a handy tool to help you organize your time and tasks. There’s a simple guide to help you set up your own.

5. Creative Multi-Tasking By Including Your Children: Multi-tasking often just comes naturally for moms. But what if you can hone that power through creative multi-tasking? What if you can teach your children by including them in the tasks?

6. 5 Questions That Can Change Your Schedule...and Your Life: When we become overwhelmed with our very full schedules, how can we choose what to pare down? How can we change our schedule to be manageable, fruitful, and rewarding? Ask yourself these 5 questions.

7. How a Wise Woman Builds Her Home: The tearing down of our homes doesn’t necessarily begin with our inaction. It begins in our minds and with our own thinking. If you’re wanting to be a wise woman who builds her home, learn this simple discipline.

8. 10 Ways To Create a Home of Warmth and Grace: Living in a world of chaos makes having a home of warmth and grace that much more vital. What are some ways you make that happen in your home? Here is a list of some ways to help you!

9. Organizing Your Life as a Mom: Maybe your life feels chaotic right now and you need some direction. How can you organize your life as a mom? How can you take your job seriously?

10. How to be a Productive Homemaker: Perfection is a productivity killer. When we aim for perfection, we miss the mark every time. We're left feeling empty and unaccomplished. With a standard this high, day after day, it becomes quite the yoke. Letting go of this burden will help you become a more productive and joy-filled homemaker.

11. Become a Homemaker Who is an Expert Systems Analyst: Can I give you a new perspective on homemaking today? It comes in this statement: Homemaking is complex. When something is complex, it requires well-designed systems in order to run properly. So a homemaker must be a systems analyst.

12. Making a Big To-Do: When the tasks are piling up and time is running thin, make a big to-do list so you can get all the things down and know where to start and what direction to head in.

Tips, Tricks, and Systems for Cleaning and Organizing Your Home

1. When You Really Dislike Cleaning: For many moms, cleaning is just one more task that has to get done each day. And the goal is to get it done as fast as humanly possible. Do you walk around loathing this duty? Here's a gentle reminder that our daily chores and house upkeep are an act of love and service.

2. Keeping Your House {and your heart} Clean: Hospitality doesn’t come naturally for all of us. Keeping your home clean isn’t just about your home, but your heart. When an unexpected guest announces they’re in town or at your front door, how do you respond in your heart?

3. The Road to "Clean" Living: Living clean and learning clean living go hand in hand. If you want to keep a clean home will also maintaining or moving into clean and healthy living, it may be time to look closely at your cleaning products.

4. 8 Homemade Spring Cleaning Recipes: Have you ever thought of making your own homemade spring cleaning recipes? Perhaps you don’t know where to start and the thought of switching over is just overwhelming. We’re here to help with that!

5. Marie Kondo and Misplaced Gratitude: In a busy world where organization and de-cluttering are synonymous with peace for moms, we love the ideas of Marie Kondo! But what does following her method reveal about our hearts?

6. How NOT to Get Organized This Year: Only two weeks into the new year and already feeling behind in your goals? We have some ideas about how NOT to have it all together. It’s not about our imperfection, it’s about the heart. Here are our ideas for small steps toward lasting change.

7. One Simple Way You Can Bless Others by Cleaning Out Your Closet: Our closets can overflow before we realize how it happened! What if you could clean out your closet and bless others at the same time? Here is a simple idea you can adopt!

8. How to Get a Perfectly Clean and Organized Home: Do you have one of those friends whose house you go to and everything looks absolutely perfect - every knick-knack placed perfectly, every cupboard perfectly organized, every nook and cranny is sparkling clean?

9. 30-Minute Clutter Busters {designed to help you balance work & play}: Clutter can be so overwhelming and make it really hard to focus. When it gets really out of control and you don’t know where to start, start with 30 minutes.

10. Don’t Let Spring Cleaning Make You Crazy: Spring.... and spring cleaning are here! Are you already feeling the pressure to make your home perfect? There is grace for you today as you seek to bless others in your space!

11. Clearing Clutter and Being Grateful: Do you ever look at your home and stuff and realize that you have WAY too much? I do it, often, unfortunately. I know that we have way more than we need. Clearing clutter can clear our minds and help us be more grateful.

12. Resolve to Organize in the New Year: The new year is just around the corner. What happens when you start thinking about a new year? Of course, resolutions! I know that most of my readers come looking for organizing inspiration. How about you?

13. 4 Sanity-Saving Tips for Balancing a Large (or Any) Family: Balancing a large family can be tricky - but with a little direction, it can be done!! These tips are useful for any sized family. They will help reign in some of the overwhelm you may be feeling!

Welcoming People into Your Home

1. Are You Too Exhausted to Practice Hospitality?: Are you too tired to welcome others in? Hospitality is a loaded word today, but it might be more simple to extend to others than you think. Today, we're taking a look at the heart of what it’s all about, and debunking a few myths that might be holding you back from welcoming others into your home.

2. Hospitality: When Your Kids Get in on the Action: Hospitality can be a family affair. When we teach our kids what hospitality looks like, we equip them to be hospitable in their own homes.

3. Cultivating Your Own Circle of Friends: When you stay generous with your hospitality and are faithful to finding friends and building them intentionally, you will come out with the treasure of those who have become like family.

4. 10 Ways to be More Hospitable: Do you consider yourself hospitable? Or are you afraid of having people over to your home? Do you fear that they might see your less-than-perfect home? Or is it just that you worry about how to handle having people over?

5. The Real Heart of Hospitality: We often think of hospitality as offering an invitation, but what if all it requires is letting someone in? Today's post is a story that will make you consider just how simple it is to welcome others into your heart and you home!

Finding and Creating Joy and Grace in Homemaking

1. 5 Ways to Bring Joy Back to Homemaking!: As a child of God, joy in homemaking or any area of life is not only possible, it should be expected.  So, how do you bring joy back to homemaking?

2. Being Balanced Starts with Your Thoughts: 3 Truths to Cling To: How you think about yourself and your life matters. What if I told you the best solution for being balanced doesn't have as much to do with what you DO, but rather with what you THINK?

3. 5 Ways to Move from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed: Most women I know are overwhelmed with all the different roles they take on. It can be paralyzing at times. Learn some ways to manage those emotions and walk in joy.

4. Making Memories in the Midst of the Mundane: It’s so easy to get caught up in all our responsibilities. But the fleeting moments of a child’s curiosity can be soaked up by making memories on those occasions. Don’t miss it.

5. When Parenting and Homemaking Are Harder Than You Imagined: Are you wondering how can you help keep your kids engaged with reading during the lazy days of summer? In this post, you will find a few ideas to help encourage your kids to keep reading! 

6. 7 Ways to Bring Peace to Your {not so peaceful} Home: Do you feel like your home is so chaotic, trying to bring peace to it seems impossible? It’s not! There are some very practical ways to bring peace to your home.

7. Contentment is a Choice: How often do we get wrapped up in the next best thing? What would happen in ourselves if we chose contentment more often than we didn’t?

8. When Multi-tasking is More Mayhem Than Helpful: Are you a master multi-tasker? There is a time to multi-task and a time not to. It’s important we discern when it’s best not to multitask.

The Better Mom Resource Guide