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Loving Your Home: An Upbeat, No-nonsense Guide to Simplicity, Order & Care

By: Carol Showalter, Mary Jane Preston

Paraclete Press / 2009 / Paperback

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Product Description

In this encouraging guide, Mary Jane Preston and Carol Showalter show you how to assess your own style of keeping house, discover simple ways to eliminate stress, create a personal schedule that works, and keep up with the needs of your home. Learn to accomplish everything you need to and still have time for the things you love. Special features include:

Daily, weekly, and monthly goals and checklists
Tips for "going green"
Ideas for making the care of your home a spiritual and creative pursuit
Ways to lighten your load by involving others
Weekly Scriptures and words of wisdom
Practical and age-appropriate ideas for kids

Product Information

Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 164
Vendor: Paraclete Press
Publication Date: 2009

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
ISBN: 1557256446
ISBN-13: 9781557256447
Availability: In Stock

Publisher's Description

A superbly practical guide to creating order out of the chaos of daily life.

Learn to create a home you want to live in. Encouraging. Light-hearted. Roll-up-your-sleeves helpful. In this down-to-earth guide, you begin by assessing the essentials of your home and daily routine. Then, facing the things that you find most bothersome or difficult, you learn basic steps to de-stress your home and organize your life.
For anyone, organized or disorganized, a gentle, mindful guide to bringing God's order into the order of life. Includes…

Tips on living well and making your house a home.
Ideas on "lightening your load" by working together with friends.
Spiritual words of wisdom on the everyday work of living.
Checklists for cleaning/organizing specific areas of your home.
Daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
How to create a yearly plan for maintaining a home of simplicity, order, and care.

Author Bio

Carol Showalter is the founder of the 3D program and co-author of Your Whole Life: The 3D Plan for Eating Well, Living Right, and Loving God. She has been featured in Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, Prevention, and other publications, and frequently leads workshops and retreats around the country. Carol lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Bill.

Mary Jane Preston, author of Getting Your House in Order, was a member of the very first 3D (Diet, Discipline, and Discipleship) group started by Carol Showalter at Parkminster Presbyterian Church in the early 1970's. She died in 2006.