Christmas parties, concerts, shopping trips - December stress happens, but Debbie Gaudino offers five practical ways to keep calm and Keep Christ in Advent.

One of the most common of my many New Year's resolutions is to become a more patient mother and teacher. Every year, it seems that I start strong but my efforts slowly fizzle out by the last week of January. My greatest challenge is to able to teach my children how to behave in ways that are pleasing to the Lord without becoming impatient and frustrated myself.

Cheryl Hernandez, Homeschool mom of nine, shows how chores provide the perfect opportunity to instill and teach responsibility, obedience and other virtues.

In a world that celebrates the materialistic, Amy Pawlusiak offers why the Church, in her wisdom, gives us twelve days to keep Christmas alive in our homes.

No need to as Amy Pawlusiak, mother of five children from teen to toddler has found some easy ways to embrace the season.

Simplifying is a constant work in progress. Abby shares ten simple organizational hacks to make your new school year more orderly, peaceful and manageable.

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!

Designing a routine can be fun; carrying it out is the difficult part. Breana English shares six easy tips she's found for creating a routine that's doable.

Abby Sasscer shares 5 easy tips to teach children how to declutter and simplify. Important life skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.

Homeschool life and religious life can have some surprising similarities. Amanda Evinger reflects on how homeschooling can nurture a religious vocation.

Man finds special meaning and purpose in inheriting and giving. Dr. Kalpakgian shows how we all have a small role to fill in creating more joy in the world.

Interested in a personal booklist? Mary Donellan decided that's what she needed to reclaim her reading habit and came up with a simple three step solution.

by Abby Sasscer | Christmas is just around the corner and I’m excited to share with you one of my favorite simple recipes: Baked Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce!

by Lorraine Espenhain | Spending five or six hours in a kitchen preparing food is just not my idea of a good time.

by Abby Sasscer | When Baby Girl felt she was ready to move in her sister’s room, our challenge was to make them feel like they had their own “special space”. This took a bit of creativity since the space we were working with was so limited. When Baby Girl is a bit older, we will eventually move a bunk bed in here to make their special space a bit more permanent.

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.

Unfortunately, the resolutions that are made are often forgotten or abandoned after the first several weeks. So, where are we to begin and how can we give ourselves a fighting chance at keeping the resolutions we make? How can we help our children to understand the value of making and keeping New Year’s resolutions?

As soon as my baby girl turned seven months old, I started feeling ill. And it wasn't the typical "I'm coming down with a cold" kind of ill. I was having a very difficult time breathing. As a busy mom, I dismissed it as the usual effects of sleep deprivation. I went to the hospital just to be sure, but they sent me home after all the test results came out normal.

I am convinced – utterly convinced – that if we all got together more often in order to celebrate the simple occasions in life, we would be a happier people. Each generation seems to be growing more and more isolated than the generation that preceded it. American society is fast becoming an isolated society.

When I was four years old and living in the Philippines, there was an elderly man who would come around our street once or twice a month to beg for food. He was ill and had a difficult time speaking. Nobody in the neighborhood seemed to know his name. Every time he came, my Lolo, or grandfather, greeted him with a hearty "Hello My Friend!" From then on, all of us children called him "My Friend".