Homemaking – Page 5

New Column: Confessions of a Real-Life Desperate Housewife

I have a confession to make: I have become a desperate housewife. I always assumed a life domesticity would be easy for me. After all, I’m known for being organized bordering on anal and consider myself an amateur epicure who enjoys time spent in the kitchen. So when I became an at-home mom almost fourRead the whole post >>

Freezer Cooking

The clock strikes 5 o’clock and my home seems to transform into a war zone. The baby’s flinging toys across the living room and my preschooler is repeating over and over, “I’m hungry. I’m hungry.” Sound familiar? For many parents mealtime mayhem is just part of the daily grind. But it doesn’t have to be.Read the whole post >>

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.