ORGANIZATIONAL HELPS AND PLANNERS

Education Plus http://www.edplus.com/ (Inge Cannon) Good materials include the
tape set, Finally Organized. If you need help with organization, home maintenance,
and training your children to do their chores well, this set is for you! Mrs. Cannon says
that more homeschooling moms get discouraged because of poor home management
skills than for any other reason. Regarding children's chores she says,
"You don't get what you expect; you get what you inspect."

"Service Opportunities Chart" from Doorposts will help you simplify chore assignments.
See http://www.doorposts.net/serviceop.htm.

A site for printable online forms with basic meal planning, house cleaning worksheet,
household planners, and more is http://www.donnayoung.org/.

Galatians 6:10, "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are of the household of faith."

Colossians 3:23, 24, "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord,
and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward
of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."

The 21st Century Christian Homekeeper: Encouragement, Instruction, and Help
- for cleaning, organizing, planning household schedules, and much more. See
http://www.futurechristianhomemakers.com/.

M.O.T.H.: Managers of Their Home http://www.Titus2.com/ An organizational plan book for
everything not just academics. Great Website. Subscribe to their e-mail newsletter entitled,
"Mom's and Dad's Corners" or read their helpful homeschooling articles online at
http://www.titus2.com/corners/index.html

A dear friend, and mother of seven children, applies the Biblical principle found in
Proverbs 14:4 to having children in the home: "Where no oxen are, the crib is clean:
but much increase is by the strength of the ox." And remember what Psalm 127:3 says,
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."

Speaking of young children - have you heard about Fuzzi Bunz Diapers? A few moms with
babies in our local support group are delighted with this unique product. Learn more at
http://www.fuzzibunz.com/.

Keepers at Home (Organizer/Planner) http://www.helpformothers.org/

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do,
that makes life blessed." -- Goethe

"Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless,
the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among
whom ye shine as lights in the world;" Philippians 2:14, 15

Fly Lady's website about getting your home in order by using "baby steps."
Read about getting into daily and weekly routines, dividing up your home
into zones, and decluttering. See http://www.flylady.net/

Luke 16:10 says, "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that
is unjust in the least is unjust also in much." That sounds a little like "baby steps" to me for
us and for our children! It also brings to mind Isaiah 28:10, "For precept must be upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"

Galatians 6:9 says, "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not." Our prayer is first and foremost that our homes bring glory and honor to
the Lord. It is an added blessing when our husbands count us faithful and our children, as
predicted in Proverbs 31:28, "arise up and call us blessed!"