Amanda Evinger shares her discoveries to keep cleaning costs to a minimum while still getting a shining home for her family to study, pray and relax in!

by Emily Molitor | Cleaning my house and cleaning my soul can be a useful analogy for me as a housewife.

by Abby Sasscer | Spring is definitely in the air and what better time to declutter and organize our domestic church than during this beautiful season of Lent. Despite the on-again, off-again winter weather we’ve been experiencing here in Virginia, the Great Purge of 2014 is well underway in our little home in the hills.

Sometimes it seems like the work for Mom is never ending in our large Catholic families. By Thanksgiving, the first quarter assignments have been completed and the homeschooling is clipping along nicely. Then Bang! Along comes the Christmas season, doubling the work load but halving the class time! It’s more than a little discouraging!

9-11: Eleven Years Later Where were you eleven years ago today? “September 11, 2001, was the deadliest day in history for New York Cityfirefighters: 343 were killed.” www.history.com Eleven years ...