Home to a Haven with Hilary Bernstein

Transform Your Home Into a Haven

Where Should You Start Cleaning in Your Home?

Ever wonder where to start cleaning? This quick and simple strategy will help! Have you ever walked into a room, fully intending to start cleaning it … but you have absolutely no idea where to begin? It used to happen to me all the time, especially if a room was messier than normal. (Or just… Read more

Planning a Menu Made Easy with These 5 Simple Steps

Having trouble with planning a menu? You’ll absolutely love this simple 5-step meal and menu planning process! Food is essential to a haven. When you think of creating a haven by catering to your five senses, you can’t forget about taste. And meals are the obvious time and place to tickle your taste buds. But… Read more

How to Keep Up With Your Home When You Don’t Feel Like Cleaning

Ever wonder how you can keep up with your home when you don’t feel like cleaning? Sometimes, you just don’t feel like cleaning. Depending on how much cleanliness matters to you, you may never feel like cleaning. But cleaning still must be done, even if it’s considered a necessary evil. Homemakers clean so we don’t… Read more

2 Simple Ways to Organize Your Home

Dealing with an unorganized mess? Try these 2 simple ways to organize your home! Struggling with organization in your home? I have good news for you: it doesn’t have to be difficult. For years, I thought that proper organization meant investing in matchy-matchy bins and baskets so everything could look so lovely for a Pinterest-perfect… Read more

How to Prepare for and Welcome Guests to Your Home

Whether you’re hosting friends for the evening or family members for several days, welcoming guests to your home sets the tone of your visit. Here are a few ways to make it more meaningful. Welcome. What makes you feel most welcome when you visit a home? Is it someone’s hug? Smile? Friendly greeting? Is it… Read more

5 Ways to Celebrate Summer in Your Home

Summer comes just once a year … make the most of summer in your home with these five easy, breezy tips! Summertime’s here! If you love warmth, sunshine, and longer, laid-back days, this is your time of year. And even if summer’s not your favorite season, there still is so much to appreciate about it. You… Read more

An Easy Way to Remind Yourself of Scripture

If you’re trying to hide God’s Word in your heart, there’s a very easy way to remind yourself of Scripture all through the comfort of your own home. Years ago, I read about a mother of young sons who hung nautical pictures all over the walls of their home. When her sons grew up, they… Read more

When You Choose to Invite God to Dinner

Have you ever made the choice to invite God to dinner? Wonder why you would … or how you could? Every once and a while, my son or daughter will set an extra place setting at the dinner table – complete with napkin, plate, silverware and glass. Unprompted, they announce that Jesus is joining us… Read more

Inviting God to Join in Your Bedtime

As you’re naturally winding down each night, try inviting God to join in your bedtime. Have you ever stopped to consider that God is with you every moment of every day? Sometimes it’s tempting to think you’re on your own. But you’re not. And the sooner you begin to invite God into parts of your… Read more

Finding Peace in Your Home

Wish you had peace in your home? It’s not as impossible as you may imagine. Do you ever wish you had peace in your home? Maybe you’re living in a home that’s filled with strife. Arguments, shouting, and insults fill the air. Or maybe you’re living in a home that’s filled with fear because your… Read more

Caring for Your Home

Woman holds a bucket of cleaning supplies
Woman stands in her kitchen, with her hands on her hips .... and cleaning supplies in her hands
Woman smiles as she cleans a countertop
Woman holds a mop over her shoulder
Woman high fives her daughter after cleaning the house
Mom and son handwash dishes together
Hardworking woman takes a breath
Woman stands in a clean living room, holding cleaning products
Little girl talks to a teddy bear while sitting on a bench
Having trouble with menu planning? You'll absolutely love this simple 5-step menu planning process!
Ever wonder how you can keep a home when you don't feel like cleaning?

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Haven Creation

Mom and son cuddle on a couch with a book while dad sits in the background
If you've created a haven, use it to welcome others!
A group of friends sits on a couch
It’s not difficult to embrace hygge in your own home. It does involve changing your mindset from busily accomplishing so much to being willing to accept margin – and to relax and enjoy the little things in life
Row of pumpkin and gourds
Barefoot woman is sitting on a velvet couch
Whether you're hosting friends for the evening or family members for several days, how you can welcome guests to your home?
Make the most of summer both inside and outside your home.
When you know your own preferences, your personality will be reflected in your home. Here are 2 important questions to ask when creating a haven for yourself.
Spring is coming! Here are 4 ways to celebrate spring in your home.
Wish you could return to a cozy home every day? Here are 5 simple ways to make it happen!

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Relationships

Are you the mom of young children? You'll love these 8 ways to make Christmas special with babies and toddlers!
As my family has transitioned from strangers to friends with our neighbors, I know it’s only because we’ve taken the time to get to know them.
Mama, are you feeling defeated? You are NOT alone. Here are 3 strategies that can help you overcome mommy defeat!
If you want to make your motherhood count – and if you know you need to transform your outlook and approach to mothering – here are 3 steps to take today.
Are your expectations in marriage making a big difference in your contentment and satisfaction?
Being your husband's good thing is a a huge but humbling gift for a wife.
you’re in this for the long haul – when times are good and when times are bad. When your husband is amazing, and when he’s a jerk.
Kindness in your marriage is a huge game-changer. Without it, you and your husband are miserable. With it, your marriage becomes a beautiful thing.
Self-care simply is taking time to do something that refreshes you.
So how can a homemaker manage her time and balance husband and children and cleaning? How can you have time and energy to get housekeeping done each week when you have children in your home or are working a full-time job?
Sometimes, your marriage can be helped a lot just by good examples of healthy marriages.

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