by Catherine | Oct 20, 2021 | Podcast
While You Were Folding is back with Season 2! The last time I recorded was back in March 2020, so we have a lot to catch up on!
This episode, I did a quick catch-up, talked about today’s topic (Acting Like a Daughter), and introduced a new segment called Show & Tell.
This episode’s links & resources:
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by Catherine | Apr 1, 2020 | Podcast
This week is all about BOUNDARIES! Fighting for them might cause initial discomfort, but they’re essential for healthy relationships–especially during pressure cooker moments like the coronavirus pandemic!
Links/resources mentioned this week:
Questions for You:
- How are you doing with your boundaries during this time? Were you good at setting boundaries before coronavirus?
- How is this experience changing you and your family dynamic?
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by Catherine | Mar 25, 2020 | Podcast
What’s working one week in to school at home:
- Routine (shared below)
- Lots of recess and walks
- Each kid has a job after each meal
- Rotate who plays with the baby or toddler during school time
- Journaling
- Mindset stuff
- There is no getting “behind” right now, so keep letting life happen at home
- The relationship with my child is always more important than the power struggle
Our working routine:
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- Breakfast/morning time/breakfast jobs
- Journaling
- School
- Recess
- School
- Make lunch/lunch/lunch jobs
- Afternoon walk
- Show/naps
- Snack/play outside/free reading/games
- Dinner prep/dinner/dinner jobs/baths and showers
- Read aloud or show
- Bedtime!
What’s helping me right now:
- Headspace
- Morning prayer and exercise
- Evening walk by myself or reading in our room
- Evening prep for the next school day
- Serenity Prayer
- God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
- Janet Lansbury’s graphic (see below)
- Remembering “Romance” (letting God romance me 6/7 days of the week, and I romance Him on Fridays)
Favorite online resources right now:
What’s working for your family right now? Do you have any favorite resources to share?
Get in touch!
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by Catherine | Mar 18, 2020 | Podcast
What a week it’s been!
- Great news: I went to the Great Homeschool Conference in Texas and got to meet Sarah Mackenzie and Pam Barnhill!
- Bad news: It got shut down halfway through, and I regret going
- I came home a homeschooling mom because our kids’ school is closed for the foreseeable future. It’s actually going really well so far!
I thought I’d share our general schedule, and I’ll update it as we make adjustments! I know there will be many! So far so good, but we’re only a few days in. Stay tuned!
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
Questions for You:
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- How are you and your kiddos doing?
- What’s working at your house? Have you found a great resource that your family is enjoying? Can you share that one thing that’s working or the awesome resource with the While You Were Folding Community?
Get in touch!
E-mail me at podcast@catherineboucher.com or
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by Catherine | Mar 11, 2020 | Podcast
Today concludes my series on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life! I’m talking about the Fifth “P”: Provider. It’s finally to make *ALL* the chore charts!
Provider is all about:
- the time, talents, specific tasks God gave us in this season of our vocation
- the things and finances entrusted to us
The Spirit of the Mother’s Rule
- Like a Constitution of what your day-to-day life is supposed to be about. Living document to revisit over and over to check yourself.
- Summarize the main points of how you want to live out your vocation
- based on the five Ps
- the specific virtues you believe are most important to your vocation and circumstances
- particular goals
- attitudes/frames of mind and heart you believe God is calling you to
- Goal and guide, something you work toward–not something you’ll accomplish perfectly right off the bat
- Review monthly (and reassess entire rule once a year)
- To begin: start jotting down the essential points of what God is calling you to as a woman, wife, and mother
“Room analysis” to make home functional and beautiful (listed on your handout!) – get out those clipboards and excel spreadsheets!
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- Decide on each room’s purpose, find what you need for it
- Give each thing a home
- What shouldn’t stay in this room?
- Repair list (visit list when budgeting)
- Beautifying projects/improvements
- What needs to happen in that room to keep it clean (daily, weekly, seasonally), who’s going to do it, and when?
Home-and-property analysis
- Needs outside the house (lawns, garage, shed, garden, cars, etc.)
Look at your Finances:
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- budget, necessary expenses, debts, bills
- Tithing as opportunity to encounter God
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Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- If you’re wanting to learn more about getting to a place of RESPONDING instead of REACTING in your parenting, you might enjoy listening to my episode 047: Wholehearted Parenting
Get in touch!
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