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The World Needs More Gilberts

September 1, 2020 By Haley 4 Comments

This is a guest post by my dear friend Tyler Blanski about what one of my favorite literary heroes can teach us. - Haley The world needs more Gilberts. The fictional (and admirable!) character Gilbert Blythe of the L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series seems to capture so many virtues that can help men succeed in their vocation to fatherhood today: he gives a standing ovation for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: fight for milk, gilbert blythe, homemaking, project gilbert, tyler blanski

My New Year’s Goal: Peace in Our Home

January 3, 2019 By Haley 17 Comments

2018, you were quite a year. (Don't believe me? Read the recap--book, baby, and so much more crammed into 12 months). I don't have big plans for 2019, but I'm thrilled it's beginning. I have book ideas simmering but no proposals or contracts in the works for a new book deal. We're not moving, changing jobs (God willing), or doing anything more crazy than homeschooling 4 kids on our little urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Food, Our Home Tagged With: family life, food, homemaking, meal planning, peace in the home

Is This Why Some Women Regret Motherhood?

April 11, 2018 By Haley 15 Comments

Is this why some women regret their motherhood?

I read an interesting but heartbreaking article about the growing number of women speaking out about regretting that they ever had children. The article claimed that feelings of regret surged after the Pill made motherhood a choice rather than just an inevitable season of married life and also highlighted the stories of several women who have experienced regret over having become mothers. It’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Motherhood Tagged With: homemaking, Motherhood, regret

How We Share the “Mental Load” of Homemaking

July 9, 2017 By Haley 30 Comments

How We Share the "Mental Load" of Homemaking

I was recently intrigued by this visual depiction of women's workload and this related article that describes the "mental load" that is carried by most women who are homemakers. While I'm not crazy about the underlying tones in these pieces of that infer mothering and maintaining the home are insignificant drudgery or that all men are clueless when it comes to homemaking, I think there are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Marriage, Our Home, Work-at-Home Life Tagged With: family, home, homemaking, marriage, the mental load

13 Reasons Why This Is Awesome

April 27, 2015 By Haley 8 Comments

        *Oops! Looks like you missed the 2015 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle! To find out about future bundles click here. Well, this is it. Less than 24 hours to go. The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Sale--a library of homemaking resources, ebooks, and ecourses--ends tonight at midnight (Monday, April 27th)! It’s been awesome hearing from readers about how much you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: books, homemaking

The One Thing That Helped This Messy Mom Keep a Clean House

April 26, 2015 By Haley 37 Comments

Messy house? This is the simplest tip to keeping a clean house ever.

I’ve always felt over my head with homemaking. Keeping things clean AND tidy has been unattainable and once things get messy, it feels like it takes two straight days of cleaning to get everything in order. Or at least...it did. Before I did the stupid easy thing everyone said would fix it: GET RID OF THE STUFF. A few months ago I had an epiphany after clearing out the big kids room of most of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading Tagged With: cleaning, decluttering, homemaking, housekeeping

When You Feel Like You’re Drowning in Survival Mode (And a Library for a Song)

April 20, 2015 By Haley 16 Comments

When You Feel Like You're Drowning in Survival Mode

I got married at age 20 the summer before my junior year in college. I accepted a full-time job in publications at the university just before graduation and found out a couple of weeks later that I was pregnant with our first child. Two years later we tacked on a cross country move, a brief stint in grad school, two more babies after increasingly debilitating pregnancies (hyperemesis … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: books, homemaking, survival mode, ultimate bundles

When Your House Is On the Market…And Full of Small Children

April 13, 2015 By Haley 20 Comments

When Your House Is On the Market...And Full of Small Children

Our house has been on the market for about seven weeks. I get asked all the time about the stress of trying to keep it clean and ready to show while homeschooling small children in it each day. And you know what? It IS stressful. I'm typically a "that looks good enough" kind of gal. Not a homemaking perfectionist...at all. But I have to admit that keeping it clean hasn't been as bad as I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading Tagged With: homemaking, less stress, selling our house

Keep the crock: A ridiculously simple discovery about cooking with a pot

April 21, 2014 By Haley 20 Comments

Guest post by Bonnie of A Knotted Life: I married a man who owned a crockpot. Because he already owned one we did not include a crockpot on our wedding registry. Two people noticed that glaring oversight and gifted us slow-cookers. On the first day of our marriage we were the proud owners of three crockpots. That’s a lotta crockpots. For the first six years of our marriage we used our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: a knotted life, bonnie, cooking, food, homemaking

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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