The Titus 2 Homemaker

My name is Rachel. I have been married to Michael since September 2000. I am a homeschool graduate and now also homeschooling mama to Ariel (8/2002) and Sophia (6/2007), both born at home “unassisted.” I am not (at all!) domestic by nature. Rather, my being a stay-at-home-wife and homeschooling mother is a willful act of obedience for me. I am learning to enjoy it (especially as I get better at the individual tasks involved), but I hope to especially be an encouragement here to those who are discouraged because homemaking and mothering do not come easily to them. It doesn’t to me, either, but I’m willing to work at it, and it is worth the effort!

I am creative, in a thinking-outside-the-box sort of way, but not in the traditional, artistic sense. (I very much enjoy crafts, but most of the crafts I do are ideas I found elsewhere; I rarely come up with art ideas all on my own.) This is something that I would like to change, so I have been making a decided effort to work at this, as well. I am a very linear, concrete thinker, so visual journaling and that sort of thing are a huge challenge for me; they can be a lot of fun, though, so I’ve been doing some investigating and experimenting with this. You might get to see some of this experimentation around here.

My two great “subject loves” are theology and nutrition/natural health/whole foods cooking (three topics with so much overlap I can’t really look at them separately). You can learn more about our family’s doctrinal leanings on my “static” website: Titus 2 Homemaker. (There are lots of articles there, too, along with some free printables.) You can find the books I’ve written at my store, Home Works.

Expect my blog to be as eclectic as I am. I’m very opinionated, so I have a tendency to write some strong opinion pieces, as well as reviews of books I really loved or really hated. I do review other books and products, too. Other posts will be about such home-centered subjects as cooking, cleaning, organizing, frugality, parenting, or homeschooling. Some will be health-related - particularly those that address little-known facts or outside-the-mainstream thinking. Some will be related to personal growth and productivity, such as descriptions of my personal planner system, or technology and/or the blogging community. Still others will be just for fun, to share about my life, to point out other sites/blogs that might be of interest, or to stretch the limits of my own creativity. There is just no way I could focus my blog on one specific area - then it wouldn’t reflect me! (See the ADD tendencies yet? lol)

Why “The Titus 2 Homemaker”?

Some might find “The Titus 2 Homemaker” to be a rather presumptious title, given my admitted lack of aptitude for domestic tasks. I don’t think it is, though, for one simple reason: Titus 2 does not describe a woman who has “arrived.” Titus 2 gives instructions for both older women and younger women, and the fact is, I will always be either one or the other (or both, depending on the circumstances)! There will never come a time when I will not be in a position either to teach or to be taught the skills and principles laid out in Titus 2. Because of this, Titus 2:3-5 is what I consider to be my “theme passage,” and (I think) a fitting theme for my blog.

(Note: All links in this post go to pages written/owned by me or members of my family.)