I had high hopes for this book. I know it is very popular in certain homeschool circles, and i tend to enjoy books about homemaking and family culture. I couldn't get on board with it though. There is a very specific theological viewpoint that flows as an undercurrent through the whole thing - the view that the world is rapidly going down the drain, and we need to create homes that are bastions against the pull. By ordering our lives and homes and families, we can save the world. This viewpoint is espoused through the whole book, until the very last chapter, when the author finally speaks about how salvation of the world is up to God, not up to us. 

I also did not find the writing particularly compelling - even on the chapters where i agreed with some of her points, it felt clunky and wordy. 

If you want to read a book on homemaking and Christian family, check out these ones instead:

- The Life-Giving Home (Sally Clarkson)
- Bread and Wine (Shauna Niequist)
- The Supper of the Lamb (Robert Capon)
- Holy Hygge (Jamie Erickson)
- A Place to Belong (Amber O'Neal Johnson)
- The Gospel Comes with a House Key (Rosaria Butterfield)