Having a Martha Home the Mary Way {GIVEAWAY!!!}
Got housework? Yeah you do.
But you also have a soul that needs tending to. If you’ve struggled under the weight of all there is to do and be as a woman who makes a home, I want to tell you about a place to discover refreshment and relief for your weary, overwhelmed soul. Oh….and a ton of cleaning hints and strategies.
If your homemaking habits—or lack there of—could use a little boost, and you also long to have a clean heart too, check out the new book by my friend Sarah Mae called Having a Martha Home the Mary Way. {If you’ve not heard of the sisters Mary and Martha from the Bible, one was a cleaner and one clung to Jesus. This book helps you clean like Martha and cling to Jesus like Mary.}
Tweet ThisHaving a Martha Home the Mary Way is for those of us who are still drowning a bit in housework, but who need to know that our identity is not in the work or the expectations put on us. At the heart, this book is about love, loving ourselves and others through a home that offers rest and peace and welcome. It is a move towards gentle homemaking, where we accept our limitations with grace, and offer that same grace to those who come under our roofs and into our care.
Having a Martha Home the Mary Way will help you…
- Learn the art of gentle homemaking – being gentle with yourself and others
- Learn the beautiful balance between being a “Mary” and a “Martha” – We need both!
- Finally release the guilt that you have to be a certain type of homemaker to be a “good” one
- Be inspired to clean! Yes, really! And it can be fun!
If you would like to be entered to win a copy of Having a Martha Home the Mary Way, leave a comment with your least favorite cleaning chore. Winner announced Wednesday. In the mean time, head over to Sarah’s blog for a fun post on cleaning for the domestically challenged.
Cleaning the bathroom!!
The bathroom. Ugh!
I dislike cleaning the bathroom.
My least favorite has to be The tile in the bath tub. I leave it squeaky clean & shiny then 5 minutes later my 2 teenage Prince’ 17 & 18 –
go in shower & those black marks appear again on the grout! why? help.
My least favorite cleaning chore is cleaning the bathrooms!
Oh my! It’s a toss-up between nightly dishes or putting away laundry. It never goes away!!! ?
It’s hard to pick just one! But I guess, based on frequency, it must be dusting. I’m not crazy about folding laundry, but at least do it regularly.
My least favorite cleaning job is cleaning the oven which is why it doesn’t generally get done until it starts setting off the smoke detector. (Well, maybe not for every cleaning – but it has happened)
DISHES!!! ? Thankfully my husband is awesome and does them more than i do. ?
My least favorite chore is dusting.
My least favorite chores are dishes. They just seem to pile up!
My least favorite is the bathrooms. It always seems to take more supplies and more time than I think it will!
My least favorite chore is definitely the bathrooms. Bleck!
Least favorite is the bathrooms. It’s really hard to talk myself into getting it done. Thank you for the opportunity to read this book — it’s needed in my life!!
Absolutely hate bathroom cleaning! Toilets being my least favorite!!! The thing I can’t get a handle on is laundry, it just doesn’t end.
Dusting seems to be never ending as I see it coming back as soon as I go to another space. It might be that the dust from my two cat’s litter boxes may be sucked up by the heater and redistributed throughout the house. It is a challenge to keep the dust down, but I’m persistent and try not to let the chore overwhelm me. This book looks like a good one to help direct my efforts for a more godly way of cleaning to have everything done “decently and in order.”
My least favorite chore is cleaning the cat boxes. But I love my cats, so….. :-) In the people part of the house, I could happily go for years without cleaning the oven. Thanks for the giveaway!
My least favorite chore is dusting. I feel like I gain nothing from doing it since before I know it, you can’t tell it was even done!
I’d have to say my least favorite chore is washing the dishes but, really, I have NO favorite chore! haha! I’ve tried everything to become a decent homemaker, to no avail. If I were to win a copy of this book and it actually helped me, I’d buy a copy for everyone I know!
My least favorite chore is doing 5 peoples laundry!!!
Least favorite chore is definitely laundry! We don’t have a washer/dryer in our condo so lugging clothes to a mat is never fun. On top of having 3 crazy boys, that usually means folding clothes almost never happens :( which leaves us with drawers of smashed and wrinkled clothes haha. Funny but not funny. Would definitely love to win this book!
I would have to say that I least like spring cleaning, because it shows how much hoarding (cough, cough – I meant hibernating) that I’ve done all winter.
Mopping. I detest mopping. Thanks for the give away.
My least favorite chore is changing sheets. Ugh..kids beds…
My absolute least favorite chore has to be laundry?????! I don’t mind the washing or drying, but I hate putting it all away.