Well, here I am again with my weekly report.  To those who read my blog and are tired of these little lists of small things I’ve done each week, I apologize.  I confess that this week I’ve felt a bit tired of it too, as the little things have certainly not added up to solve [...]

Another week gone, another month ended.  Wow!  How did that happen?  I don’t know if your life is like mine, but it sure seems like the last week of the month ends up being especially busy, no matter how I try to make it otherwise.
This week’s report:  63 steps.  I think that’s the most so [...]

Well, this week felt more like walking in quicksand than anything else,  but at least we’re trying?!?
This week’s total:  45 steps.
A few highlights from the week:
1.  This morning we had a surprise request for french braids.  I was grateful that only 3 of my 5 daughters have enough hair to do this, or we would [...]

Ok, time for another week’s report.  61 steps.  Part of me wonders how I could write down so many things and still have such a messy house.  And then I realize how many of them involve pausing to meet a need instead of plowing forward with what I want to do.  Just today I prayed [...]

Another week, another report.  56 steps taken in this first week of February.
A few highlights from the week:
We fed the sister missionaries dinner with less than 1 hour’s  notice, and on the craziest night of the week.  It was wonderful to have them in our home.
I decided that this whole One Step idea is ridiculous [...]

Well, this week yielded 57 steps, for a total of 194 steps this month!  Wow.  I feel grateful to my Heavenly Father for helping me find so many positive things in my month.  I am grateful for a baby that seems to be back on her normal sleeping schedule, which is a very good thing [...]

It’s been an interesting week.  My baby has decided that crying from 9 pm to midnight is a lovely way to spend the evenings, and it’s set us all back a bit, especially when she wakes up at 1:30 a.m. and every hour afterward.  What happened to the 6 hours of solid sleep she’s been [...]

This week was a different sort of week.  I need to remember that the weeks when I’m the one driving the kindergarten mid-day carpool are very different (and not nearly as productive) as the weeks when I get to stay home, waiting for my daughter to step through the door.
This week I recorded 35 steps.  [...]

Well, it’s day #10 of the year 2010, and I’m happy to report that it’s been a great ten days.
Never before have I so completely turned the tables on my critical, perfectionist self.  I haven’t made a single list of things to do all week, but instead have listed all the things that were done.  [...]

I call myself the Hopeful Homemaker.  Well, the past couple of months have been so hard for me.  For the first time in my life, I haven’t felt very hopeful.  As my confidence and hope have waned, it has been harder to try, wholeheartedly, to make the home my family needs me to make.
You see, [...]