Hello and welcome to the MS-Moma Podcast. I'm your host Abby Halberstadt

Happy Wife Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian and on today's show I want to talk about something that I get

asked about on a regular basis that seems to be on a lot of Mama's minds and I believe that it's probably

on a lot of people's minds regardless of your vocation and that is how do you establish

rhythms in your home that create more peace and minimize chaos. Now as a mama of 10, this is something

that I've had to work on basically since I got married.

I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily

the most naturally disciplined person

when it comes to certain areas like the organization of little bitty

tiny detailed things or of just organization in general. I'm not a huge fan of

labels. I'm not great at having a spot for every tiny thing, but I have generally been someone who is fairly self-disciplined, who is motivated, who is productive by nature, and that is something that the Lord has

had to grow in me as a mom because the more kids you have, the more opportunities you have to get buried under piles of stuff, to have more schedules

to juggle, to lose track of your time management skills and your discipline. And so all those things may come to me somewhat

naturally I also can be naturally really lazy I think all of us have that lazy monster inside of us and

there wouldn't be so many proverbs about what sloth does to you, what being

slovenly and what the sluggard looks like.

If that wasn't kind of a caution to just about everybody. So I want to encourage you

that while we do absolutely have some rhythms that work really well for our

family now and I'm going to share some of them specifically with you and some concepts with you that could be applied to your home as well.

I by no means think that I've got this rhythm thing perfectly figured out for everyone or even for our own family.

And something that I'm going to emphasize is flexibility. I really feel like it's important

to reassess and to return to what's working and what isn't. So as we talk about establishing rhythms in your home, I think it's important

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