Hilary Bernstein

Care for Your Home Without the Overwhelm

One Amazingly Powerful Way to Simplify Your Homemaking

Need to simplify your homemaking? You might be surprised at how one factor in your home can be a huge game-changer. As a wife and mom, finding the time and energy to care for my home is pretty tricky. After all, there always seems to be a zillion things I’d rather do than care for… Read more

The Surprising Power of a Dishwashing Routine

Dirty dishes are an inevitable part of life. Creating a daily dishwashing routine can help save time and reduce hassles and mess. As a homeschooling, work-at-home mom of two, my least favorite chore of the day is dishes. It could be because I love to cook – and cook real food – so I dirty a… Read more

How to Find the ‘Right’ Laundry Routine

Take a deep breath and stop worrying about your laundry habits. The “right” laundry routine completely depends on you and your current season of life. Laundry. Aside from dirty dishes, I can’t think of another chore that continues to pile up day after day after day. In my attempts to tackle Mt. Washmore in my… Read more

How to Make Your Clothing Choices Help Your Homemaking

Have you ever thought that your wardrobe choices could affect your home? Here’s how to make your clothing choices help your homemaking! I used to think clothing choices had everything to do with a personal sense of style. If you wanted to wear something, you should wear it. Right? But the more I talked with… Read more

3 Helpful Strategies to Overcome Mommy Defeat

Mama, are you feeling discouraged? You are NOT alone. Here are 3 strategies that can help you overcome mommy defeat! I don’t think there’s been a day in my life – since becoming a mom – when I’ve felt like I was caught up with everything I’ve had to do. Actually, it’s been quite the… Read more

3 Meaningful Ways to Make Motherhood Count

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. Before I became a mom, I never lacked a shortage of parenting ideas. Someday I would write notes to my kids to encourage them…. Read more

The Calling to Care for Your Home

You might not want to admit it, but the calling  to care for your home is a great thing. Have you ever known you’ve had a calling for something … but you’d rather ignore it? I have a tendency to get excited about new possibilities really easily. So when I hear about opportunities, I want… Read more

2 Important Questions to Ask When Creating a Haven

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. I like visiting other people’s houses. Getting a peek into the way other people live is fun, and without a doubt, I love seeing personalities come out in… Read more

What I Need to Remember When I Feel Defeated Every Day

Feel defeated? You’re not alone. Here’s what you need to remember. Last week, I came to a startling realization: Every single day, I feel defeated. Every day, I feel like I’m failing. And not just a little defeat. I feel like I’m continually behind and always striving for something more. The pressure to do more… Read more

4 Ways to Welcome Spring to Your Home

Spring is coming! Here are 4 ways to welcome spring to your home. Born and raised in Ohio, I’ve spent all of my life experiencing all four seasons throughout the year. Some weeks, it almost seems like we experience all four seasons in the span of seven days, thanks to the changes in the weather…. Read more

House and Home

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?
Dealing with an unorganized mess? Try my 2 simple ways to organize your home!
When you're overwhelmed with life, how in the world can you care for your home? I have a few suggestions that have worked for me ...
Feeling like you’re caring for your home all the time, mama? Tired of being the mom who cleans all the time? Here are 2 ways to spend more time with your children and less time with your housework.
Need to simplify your homemaking? You might be surprised at how one factor in your home can be a huge game-changer.
Dirty dishes are an inevitable part of life. Creating a dishwashing routine can help save time and reduce hassles.
Have you ever thought that your wardrobe choices could affect your home? Here’s how to make your clothing choices help your homemaking!
Drowning in clutter? Here’s one way to declutter so you can free yourself – and your home – from the clutches of the clutter monster.
Feeling stuck with your life or homemaking this year? Make a change to your life in 2018 with one effective strategy.

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Family

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.
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.
Getting tired out from striving on your own as a wife? Sounds like it's time to stop.
As much as you'd like to rush it, for some couples it takes a lifetime to figure out marriage.
One of the many benefits to marriage is living life together as one flesh.

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Holidays

When we change our focus and choose to remember and celebrate the reason for Christmas, the season becomes a celebration of a gift we so desperately need.
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.
By baking cookies ahead of time, you can cool, freeze, and then thaw them before serving. Easy peasy!
Create a haven this Christmas as a gift for yourself ... and your loved ones.
Looking for a festive and frugal Christmas decorating strategy? Here’s a super simple secret that will look great in your home!

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