The Happy Homemaking Blog

Wow, it’s sure been awhile since I’ve spoken on here! I apologize for the long wait and thank you all for your patience.  As I’m sure most of you know, a little while after I published the latest post on here, I sent out a posting schedule update via email in which I announced that… Read more

Today I’d like to tell you a short story.  I’d like you to picture a young man who, in a sense, was just beginning his very own life. Sure, he’d had a life before now, but he was only just starting to have his own life. He was attending a college a couple hours away… Read more

A tradition that my family has done for a long time as we’ve sat around the dinner table sharing dinners together, is going around the table and each saying something that we’re grateful to God for, and something we’d like to ask God for. And because I just celebrated my 20th birthday on Sunday, I… Read more

There are so many catchphrases about marriage that are thrown around as if they’re supposed to be funny or good advice, but I don’t find them to be either. The phrases that I go over in this post are common and I’m sure you’ve heard most, if not all of them. Today I’m going to… Read more

I used to be an avid reader. Before I began dating my now husband, I used to read all the time and frequently get humongous stacks of books from the library that I would finish in a decently short amount of time. Then my husband and I started dating and I entered a new stage… Read more

Who doesn’t like to think about all the things that make them most happy? This week I was in the mood for a silly, lighthearted post, and while I know that no one reading this has ever asked to hear about my favorite things, here you have them anyway! 🙂 ____________________________________________________ Of course I have… Read more