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07-03-2009, 02:43 PM
Title of Book: A Mother's Rule Of Life
Author (s) name (s): Holly Pierlot
Date of publication (year): 2004
Publisher: Sophia Press
ISBN: 978-1-928832-41-6
Number of Pages: 224
Where it can be purchased: http://www.sophiainstitute.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=253
Illustrated? no, but samples of charts are in the book
Genre of the book: Non-Fiction / Biography / Religion / How-to / Homeschooling Specific / Life Management
Rate your book: Highly Recommended
Appropriate Age group for this book: adult women
Book Summary:
From website above:
Motherhood and homeschooling had overwhelmed her. The house was dirty, the laundry undone. Holly felt frustrated, discouraged, and alone. She couldn’t find time to snuggle and have fun with her five children or to go out with her husband. Yes, she loved Philip and she did love God, but she had come to resent Philip’s freedom and she almost never found time for prayer
Today, everything’s better.
Holly still homeschools, but the house is cleaner, she gets more done, and the kids are happier. There’s less stress, less strife, and less housework. Holly’s been healed of past wounds that troubled her soul and her marriage. Best of all, she spends at least an hour each day in prayer and time each evening with Philip.
Holly brought about these changes with what she calls her Mother’s Rule of Life, a pattern for living that combines the spiritual wisdom of the monastery with the practical wisdom of motherhood.
Holly’s Rule is not just another set of schedules; it’s a way for Christian mothers to answer God’s call to holiness.
With the help of your own Rule, you can get control of your own household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more, and raise up good Christian children. In these wise and practical pages, Holly shows you how.
Do you want to be a better wife and mother? To have more order in your life? To grow in union with God? Are you desperate yet?
With your own Mother’s Rule of Life, you’ll transform motherhood and its burdens into the joyful vocation it’s meant to be. Learn from Holly Pierlot how to craft a Rule that’s right for you and your family. Then use that Rule to help God draw you, your husband, and each of your children into Heaven!
Opinion of the Book:
I enjoyed this book very much and found it very helpful, where other books on the subject of "homeschool/home organization" leave me either feeling defeated or just plain give me hives :wink: Holly writes to be encouraging without being condecending or overly self important. She emphasised through the book that HER personal rule will probably not work for your family and to make your own. A big difference in this book as to the others. She gives wonderful highlights from her own busy life and how the Holy Spirit guided her to make the changes she needed to make in her life.
Holly is a devout Catholic wife and mother, and although I am not (Catholic), I gleaned much from her frank devotion to Christ and to pleasing Him in all she does. I did have to ask several of my Catholic friends about certain terms I was not familiar with, but all in all, I highly recommend this book for any woman who seeks to serve the Lord with gladness in all she does! She is writing to an audience who loves God, not a Catholic-specific audience.
She also has a workbook available for download (http://www.mothersruleoflife.com/hollysnotebook.html)on her site that has menu plans, prayer times ( Mother's Liturgy of the Hours), organization pages for each room of your home, children's spiritual/school charts, etc. Very worth the purchase to work through the book!
Holly also has a web site (http://www.mothersruleoflife.com/index.html)with a blog and a place where you can glean encouragement, support and ask questions.
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Author (s) name (s): Holly Pierlot
Date of publication (year): 2004
Publisher: Sophia Press
ISBN: 978-1-928832-41-6
Number of Pages: 224
Where it can be purchased: http://www.sophiainstitute.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=253
Illustrated? no, but samples of charts are in the book
Genre of the book: Non-Fiction / Biography / Religion / How-to / Homeschooling Specific / Life Management
Rate your book: Highly Recommended
Appropriate Age group for this book: adult women
Book Summary:
From website above:
Motherhood and homeschooling had overwhelmed her. The house was dirty, the laundry undone. Holly felt frustrated, discouraged, and alone. She couldn’t find time to snuggle and have fun with her five children or to go out with her husband. Yes, she loved Philip and she did love God, but she had come to resent Philip’s freedom and she almost never found time for prayer
Today, everything’s better.
Holly still homeschools, but the house is cleaner, she gets more done, and the kids are happier. There’s less stress, less strife, and less housework. Holly’s been healed of past wounds that troubled her soul and her marriage. Best of all, she spends at least an hour each day in prayer and time each evening with Philip.
Holly brought about these changes with what she calls her Mother’s Rule of Life, a pattern for living that combines the spiritual wisdom of the monastery with the practical wisdom of motherhood.
Holly’s Rule is not just another set of schedules; it’s a way for Christian mothers to answer God’s call to holiness.
With the help of your own Rule, you can get control of your own household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more, and raise up good Christian children. In these wise and practical pages, Holly shows you how.
Do you want to be a better wife and mother? To have more order in your life? To grow in union with God? Are you desperate yet?
With your own Mother’s Rule of Life, you’ll transform motherhood and its burdens into the joyful vocation it’s meant to be. Learn from Holly Pierlot how to craft a Rule that’s right for you and your family. Then use that Rule to help God draw you, your husband, and each of your children into Heaven!
Opinion of the Book:
I enjoyed this book very much and found it very helpful, where other books on the subject of "homeschool/home organization" leave me either feeling defeated or just plain give me hives :wink: Holly writes to be encouraging without being condecending or overly self important. She emphasised through the book that HER personal rule will probably not work for your family and to make your own. A big difference in this book as to the others. She gives wonderful highlights from her own busy life and how the Holy Spirit guided her to make the changes she needed to make in her life.
Holly is a devout Catholic wife and mother, and although I am not (Catholic), I gleaned much from her frank devotion to Christ and to pleasing Him in all she does. I did have to ask several of my Catholic friends about certain terms I was not familiar with, but all in all, I highly recommend this book for any woman who seeks to serve the Lord with gladness in all she does! She is writing to an audience who loves God, not a Catholic-specific audience.
She also has a workbook available for download (http://www.mothersruleoflife.com/hollysnotebook.html)on her site that has menu plans, prayer times ( Mother's Liturgy of the Hours), organization pages for each room of your home, children's spiritual/school charts, etc. Very worth the purchase to work through the book!
Holly also has a web site (http://www.mothersruleoflife.com/index.html)with a blog and a place where you can glean encouragement, support and ask questions.
FTC Disclosure: PLEASE NOTE: This is a “For Profit” site. The Library makes commissions on products sold through affiliate and advertiser links. The products reviewed here may or may not have an affiliate link (most don’t), but we want you to be aware that it is a possibility. Whether this affiliation affects the objectivity of the reviews here is debatable. We don’t think it does, but that’s up to you to decide. If you want to know about a specific product, please feel free to ask. For a full list of current affiliates, check out the Affiliate Forum.