How to Have Peace When You’re Falling To Pieces

Author: Rebecca Rode
Publisher: CFI
Published Date: March 2013

About How To Have Peace:

You haven’t seen your kid’s bedroom floor in weeks, your schedule is overflowing, and the lady at the drive-through knows you by name. But even when your life feels chaotic, peace is possible. Packed with poems, quotes, scriptures, and uplifting stories, this book gives a fresh perspective on a mother’s work and helps restore calm to a hectic world—starting at home.

To Read When – you want to be inspired without feeling like you suck at the mom job.

More than any other self help or inspiring book, I feel like this truly motivated me and inspired me.  It may sound really dorky, but I feel like the author, Rebecca, is me.  Its like she is spying into my house.  Some moms make me feel guilty for not enjoying the job more.  This is what I needed to hear.

For those of you that aren’t mothers, or are already perfect mothers, I really enjoyed the ideas on interior design, living with kids, and a house of order.  Lines I have highlighted, and my need tattooed on my forehead:

• Sometimes organization is a lonely task.
• Children who organize their own toys will be more likely to put them away.
• Kids who have to clean up after themselves are less likely to make a mess.
• Motherhood involves swimming against a current of clutter and junk.  Don’t give up.
• Comparing a garden to a home:  “Wherever there’s nothing, that’s where weeds will grow”.  

In a garden, where there a plants, and the space has been cleaned out and then planted, there are less weeds and only maintenance is required.  The same is in a home.  The spaces you have worked on to feel designer / pretty / like home are the areas that you just need to maintain.  Its the junk drawer / front closet / office that the junk and mess tends to pile up.  This was like a light bulb moment to me.

What are your home organization tips?  What makes you feel guilty as a mom?

About The Author:

Rebecca Rode won awards for her writing in high school and college, eventually publishing an acclaimed personal essay about Romanian orphans in Brigham Young University’s literary publication, Inscape. She received a bachelor’s degree in Child Development and a minor in English in 2004. She also wrote for Schooled Magazine for two years. In 2011, Rebecca became a contributor to Deseret News in Salt Lake City and KSL.com, a Utah broadcasting network website. How to Have Peace When You’re Falling to Pieces is her first book. Rebecca and her husband are raising their three children in Utah County.

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