Top 10 Homemaking Articles in 2013 {and a recap}
Cultivating your life as a homemaker takes skill, hard work, and lots of determination. Learning how to effectively juggle diapers, dirty laundry, dishes, more laundry, and oh yeah, cultivating your relationship with the Lord, isn’t easy. And yet – it’s the most important aspect of your life.
So to make it easier, I’ve rounded up the best homemaking articles of 2013 (in my humble opinion). And scroll down for an update on what has been going on this past year in the Balmet Family.
Top 10 Homemaking Articles of 2013
Managing Your Home for God’s Glory
Setting the Atmosphere in the Home
Homemaking While Working Outside the Home
Taking Charge of Your Family’s Healthy for God’s Glory
Managing Your Family’s Finances for God’s Glory
10 Reasons Why I’m a Homemaker {Part 1}
10 Reasons Why I’m a Homemaker {Part 2}
Learning to be an Industrious Proverbs 31 Woman – Working from Home
Homemaking and Time Management {for the new year}
If you like these posts, then you will love my Pinterest Board, Christian Homemaking! 31 of the top Christian bloggers have come together to bring you all their favorite homemaking tips, tricks, articles, and more!
Our Family Update
2013 help the some of the happiest moments in my life and also some of the hardest. My faith grew more this year than I ever thought possible!
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On December 26, 2012 we welcomed our twin bundles of joy into our home: Our twin boys Malachi & Micah! We got to welcome them into this world in 2012 but most of their lives have been over 2013. This past year I got to watch my boys grow into toddlers.
We got to see our boys first smiles, first teeth, start eating solid food, start to crawl, take their first steps, hear their first words, and celebrate their first birthday! It’s been such an incredible journey into motherhood…and all of this happened before I turned 24. I feel so beyond blessed and these moments with my boys this year have been incredible.
Sadly, in November, my mother unexpectedly passed away at the age of 47. As it’s not even been two months since she passed away, we are still working through and dealing with this loss. But through it all, God’s love and His grace has been so evident! He has been my strength through this all and I know our family will be able to move forward in His strength! And thank you to all of those who have been praying for us during all of this. I am the oldest of four kids and have three younger brothers. My youngest brother is only 16 and this has been rough on all of us.
Moving into 2014
Throughout everything we have been through this year, the ups and the downs, the highs and the lows, I am more confident than ever that I need to rely on God’s strength, His Mercy, and His Grace to live out this life. I am more committed than ever to striving towards being a godly wife, mother, friend, and servant of Christ!
Will you join me in 2014 with a strong commitment to Biblical Womanhood and Christian Homemaking? Join me tomorrow as I share my vision for this new year and some VERY exciting things that you will be seeing from Young Wife’s Guide {and our other blogs} in 2014 and beyond!