Nearly a year ago I posted about how helpful Large Family Logistics was in bringing more order to our home.
It is so helpful that the Moms of Many have decided to blog through the book and we’re inviting you to join us.
Each Thursday starting in August we’ll be blogging about a topic or two from Large Family Logistics and we’re inviting you to join us by writing your own post and linking it up with the 4 Moms.
My favorite change from my first read through of LFL was moving morning chores to the afternoon.
With chapters on laundry management, morning routines, family worship, afternoon chores, meal planning, table time, bedroom management and homeschooling, Kim Brenneman offers practical solutions and flexible plans for meeting many of the particular challenges that moms face. But LFL isn’t just a practical, how-to book for managing a home. It also hits the heart of the matter.
Motherhood is a life of sacrifice; it is a life poured out for our children. So what are we to do to get some space from it all? When we are honest with ourselves, we know that it is not “Me Time” we need or a “Girls’ Night Out”. Children are not a burden to escape or endure; they are a blessing that drives us to Christ because we are incapable of parenting well without Him. God is who we need. While there are helpful strategies we can employ in order to have a more peaceful day with our children, the number one thing we must do is to deny Self and cling to the cross. ~Kim Brenneman, Large Family Logistics
As if practical tips and ideas and spiritual encouragement weren’t enough motivation to join us, we’re each giving away a copy of Large Family Logistics to one of our readers. So enter to win and mark your calendars. 
Each of the 4 Moms is giving away a copy, so be certain to enter on all four sites.
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Follow the directions below to win a copy of Large Family Logistics.
To enter:
- Leave a comment on this post telling me about you biggest home/family management challenge.
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Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Winners will be announced next Thursday.
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Hi, I'm Kimberly. 
Keeping the bedrooms picked up! Also laundry.
Expectations. Are they high enough, too high? And routine. As in, finding a rhythm.
Laundry, laundry, laundry!!! My inconsistency in staying with it…
It’s hard to get my children to obey. It takes time to get things done – more than I would like.
Training all my littles to actually be helpful and keeping them on task for their simple chores. I feel like they undo everything I’m trying to do. No progress!
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I blogged about the giveaway
My challenge is stuff! It is everywhere. I am trying to dig out.
Clutter and keeping things put up.
Motivating myself to go do something I know will be undone in 5 min.
Clothes- even though I am always getting rid of them and rarely buying them. Also, attitudes- we’re working on being cheerful, whatever we’re doing- an ongoing thing around here.
Staying on top of everything when I am not feeling well, emotionally or physically (pregnant).
We don’t live in our living room because of the clutter. Need help cleaning this room (and the whole house).
Keeping the floors mopped is my biggest challenge. When they are cleaned, it seems that it is such a short time before they are dirty again.
Hello again,
(3RD ENTRY)
Tears. They come quite often lately. I feel that no matter how hard I try to accomplish school, cleaning, cooking and nurturing children that many things go undone . I can’t remember the last time I went to bed feeling it’s been a GREAT day and we’ve accomplished so much! How do I get to that point? How do I manage these 6 energetic boys and a home too without feeling like a failure? I need some insight desperately.
My biggest challenge is getting the kids involved in chores!
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I shared this post on Facebook using the share button!
Just blogged about it, too! http://howwasthatagain.blogspot.com/
Hmm, I posted about how I blogged about the giveaway, but it didn’t go through. There should be a total of 4 entries for me.
I’m an ADHD Homeschool Mom of Seven ages 2 -14 (one with Dyslexia and one with Aspergers)……hmmmm biggest challenge….keeping a good routine/schedule, oh and laundry too (we wash our clothes the night before to have clean ones the next day, so hard to keep up!! Once in a rare while I’ll get a week worth done (hiding face, lol)
Sorry this is probably more then you bargained for ; )
Liked you on Facebook (months back!) Your site is great!!
Shared your link on Facebook!
How about … Everything? LOL OK, I will narrow it down …laundry, decluttering, making dinner at a decent hour.
(4th post)
I would love this book.I’m not sure how to schedule all 6 of my boys to have all their school in and get it done at a decent hour. For instance, We just saw my hubby off to work at 11:30 and had to go grocery shopping in the middle of the week. So, in turn, school has barely been started for the day at NOON!!! So, this will now take us into the evening. I just can’t stand being this unorganized anymore. I’ve sat down many times trying to organize a schedule but always get stumped.:(
My biggest challenge is scheduling our schooling and sticking to it. One of our children was born with a tethered spinal chord and has some physical needs
(though one would never know just looking at her)Because she has many dr appointments, all a good distants things get so shifted around. With her last surgery we were all off a few weeks.I need to ty to find a balance in scheduling her planned appointments and continue to be flexible with her unplanned appointments so that we may have some consistency with school.
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My biggest chore is keepping up with the housework, it seems the dishes and laundry is never done!
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My biggest challenge is answering ALL the questions and remembering who asked what. As a rule – no hard questions until I’ve had my java.
Our household struggles with keeping things in order…dishes, laundry, rooms picked up. 4 little ones make quite a mess!
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And shared your link on Facebook. Thanks for doing the give-away!
(5th entry)
It’s been a long and frustrating day, like many others. I don’t have anything under schedule. I try, I just don’t know how to manage it. But the very one thing I’ve been trying really hard with is to get the kids in bed by 9pm. It didn’t happen tonight until 9:30. It’s not too far off, but when you strive so hard to be a good home manager and nothing pans out right it’s becomes very frustrating.
There are no words to describe how much I’d love to have this book. Then, to follow your discussions in August about it. I know I’d glean some very new and helpful information and FINALLY get this home under control!
My biggest issue is with laundry. I tend to save clothing for the next child and always have some random clothes floating around that don’t fit anyone. I end up donating it or putting it in a garbage sack in the garage with all different sizes. uh
My biggest challenge is getting my kids invloved in household tasks. Granted they are only 3 years old & 18 months old, but I still want to include them & train them. I just can’t seem to slow down & pull them along side me as I work. :/