Testimonials

Get ready to be inspired...this book is chock-full of practical tips and biblical wisdom for how to manage and enjoy a household with lots of kids. Kim's loads of experience on this subject shines through and her wealth of advice has really worked for us!
~Melissa Z.
Oley, PA
Mom to 4 kids under 6

Thank you for writing a book that is so real. I am a homeschooling mother with 10 children. Your book really strikes a chord! :) ~ Brenda

I just finished reading your book, and I was hugely encouraged and refreshed by what you had to say. I especially appreciated the biblical foundation that you laid out in the beginning, and was woven throughout the text. ~Susan

The children are out side getting some fresh air, in between cloud bursts, so I thought I'd write a moment. Thank you for your book Large Family Logistics. I, like you, have figured out of lot of it on my own thanks to trial and error over the years. Coming into married life without a clue, then deciding the Lord's will with our family planning added to the increasing list of "How do I" 's. I can remember Grandma talking about wash day, cleaning day, errand day etc...but never thinking upon it until I read your book. My Grandma died several years ago at 92! She had so much wisdom I neglected to tap into.
As I type, the washer is working it's tail off today, as it has for the last five weeks on my newly established Wash Day. I LOVE IT. It has caused me to reorganize clothing, because, of course it is all put away in one day. We had waaaaay too much of it! My husband built me a wall of shelving that holds all 7 children's wardrobes, labeled and easy for the children to put away. At the end of a monday, I just want to take a cup of coffee and sit and stare at my neatly organized stack of clean clothes. I have never had things controlled like this and I do not feel like a slave to my laundry every day. I also took your advice and wash coats/thur - bedding/fri & towels/tue.
I started a home management binder....why did I wait this long? I had never heard of this and now the children all know that Tue is Office Day, Wed is Town Day and Thur is Cleaning Day, they get a kick out of it. My house is clean, I can write this now that I have five weeks under my belt and I feel the honey moon with your book is over, yet I continue to build on what you've started. I am much more able to manage an organized home, better than a chaotic one!
My daughters are learning right beside me and I feel I am finally teaching them well how to be a decent keeper at home. I hope I am not coming across at boasting. I am truly amazed and thankful to the Lord for answering a constant prayer to help me find my niche that works for me to keep my home and watch over it's ways better. I read [title removed] ...loved the book, but it was NOT my personality. I have babies and interruptions, you took that pressure off me to live my life putting my hubby and children first and everything else falls in there. I am so uncreative and gain wisdom from "standing on the backs of those who have gone before us". I thank you for the time it took you to write this book. It was no easy feat, I'm sure, but you have rewarded many.
I blogged the whole first week I took on your *schedule* and many of my friends have since bought copies for themselves and it has bore much fruit in other households. I will stop talking now. ;)
Again, thank you Kim, the dryer just beeped. ;) ~Jennifer

Shortly after my 4th child was born and I was floundering to get my bearings with 4 children under the age of 4, I found Kim’s blog. Kim’s guidance in setting up a home management notebook and creating rhythms for each day have helped me to focus the direction of my days and her down to earth step-by-step instructions in cleaning and routines keep my life simpler. Kim’s writing on “every room in the house is a mess” is like a 911 call answer to tough times and her honesty has brought me to tears knowing that I’m not alone.
~Jessica Sh. mom of 6 from Kansas

I just wanted to say "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" for writing your book. The homeschooling community is all abuzz about it and I am so excited to read it! I'm waiting for it to go on sale, so I joined your yahoo group a few minutes ago. I was delighted that the very first email I got had an attachment called "Every Room In The House is a Mess." A flood of relief washed over me when I read that! I am mother to a 6 yr old, 4 yr old and 1 yr old and very often I feel like "every room in the house is a mess!" =) My own mother never taught me to clean a house (she ran a foster home and cleaned it herself so that it would be up to Health Department Standards). Then I married a man whose mother and sister are professional house cleaners! Bad combination! =) He is used to a very high standard of cleanliness. I do my best, but there are parts of the house that need cleaning that I didn't even know existed! (For example, I'm sure you know - but I didn't - that when you turn a ceiling fan on, the dust doesn't just blow off all by itself?) =) My husband is a very good man, but he is amazed that anybody would "not know how" to clean. One time he caught me reading a "how to clean" book and asked me, "Aren't you embarrassed to be reading that?" Of course, he's at work all day so he doesn't always see what goes on at home. (Now here's the part to make you laugh). Like a couple of weeks ago, the children (then aged 5 and 3... we've had birthdays the past few weeks!) decided to "surprise" me by cleaning the closet. They made a big production of it and begged me not to come in because they were going to make it "so SO clean!" (Yes, they are their father's children!) LOL! Anyway, they worked very diligently for about an hour. Finally, it was time for "inspection." They had me close my eyes and they led me to the bathroom door (you have to walk through the bathroom to get to the closet). I opened my eyes, and this picture was what I saw! Yes, I was very, very surprised. Surprised to the point of heartfailure. =) The closet was very clean. They did a really good job... it's just that... look where they put it all! I thought to myself, "[My husband] is going to wet his pants if he sees this!... He'll have to because he won't be able to get to the toilet!"
Anyway, it's been a couple of weeks now, which is long enough ago that I can laugh about it. I wanted to share this picture with you because it sounds like you have a large family, which means some of your children must be old enough to help with the little ones. (I am getting to that point! My oldest just turned 6!) I hope this picture makes you smile and brings back happy memories of the days when everybody was little... and I hope it also expresses appreciation from someone who is still "in the trenches!" You sure are filling a need!
Congratulations on the success of your book! It sounds like the accolades are well-deserved!
Warmly,  A

I tell everyone that I found out about T-Tapp from your blog! I had been overweight and tired for many years as the busy mom of a large homeschooling family. Your recommendation gave me the courage to try it out and I got such amazing results that I just kept going. Eventually I lost over 100 pounds and went from a size 22W to a size 6. I became a T-Tapp Trainer to help others feel and look better. It literally changed my life--and so you had a big impact as well.
On another note, I have always found your ideas on home management very helpful and inspirational as we work on systems to keep up with all the demands of a family at home 24/7. Real-time, efficient and effective--just what large families need. Thanks for everything!
~Charlotte Siems, mother of 12, Oklahoma

I am a mom of 7. Over the years I spent having my babies, growing them through toddlerhood, potty training and eventually home education, I read the LFL blog and website frequently. It was comforting to know that someone else had gone before me and made it. And was still a happy mom and wife! Finding a place where children are a blessing, in any number, but especially a large number is rare. I found lots of laundry ideas, school ideas, what works, what doesn't work ideas. I'm glad I found LFL many years ago!
~Jenni in Iowa with 7 blessings

I joined Kim's Large Family Logistics Yahoo internet group a few years ago.
Her website internet blog was also one of the very first blogs I ever started reading as well. I love how Kim's writings are down to earth, simple, and comforting. It's good knowing that other mothers have the same
struggles that I do, and that they, too, are devising systems to get organized. Kim's and my organizational systems are very similar in many ways. Though I've never met her, I have considered her a dear e-friend, via
her Yahoo group and blog for years. I still check her blog daily, and read her Yahoo group posts, and as long as both exists, I will probably remain a loyal reader. Kim has mentioned that she was coming out with a Large Family Logistics book. I'm one of the first in line to purchase said book. I look forward to reading and re-reading it through the years.
- Candy B, happy home school mother of 4

Kim,
I found your yahoo group when I was a struggling mom of 2. I had a horribly messy house, a flustered attitude, and no idea where to get started. I googled "large family management" and your blog came up. I spent days pouring over the information you shared. Today, I am expecting my 5th baby and I still get overwhelmed. However, when I do I refer to the information that I printed off from your sight and review what I need to change in my daily schedule (and attitude). Having several children under the age of 6 is hard work, and few people can give practical advice. God allowed me to find your encouragment, tips, recipes, schedules, etc and I am so grateful.
~Audrey, Mom of 5 (baby #5 to be born in June), Tennessee


I thought I should just write out of deep appreciation to Large Family Logistics. I now use the days of the week chores in my home and it has taken a LOAD off my mind. I no longer have to think and rethink about my long “to-do” list (which took up a lot of mental energy and stress), but I find myself at ease accomplishing my tasks and even often finding the time to work on the next day’s tasks ahead of time Lord willing.
Furthermore, I am so thankful that the writers of these blogs have made themselves vulnerable to the readers and write that their houses and schedules don’t always run perfectly. It is so freeing to know that if the house happens to be a disaster one day that I haven’t failed as a wife, mother, and homemaker, but that I have the method, ability, and future days to get things back in order.
Christina T.
Mother of 3.5 children ages 6, 3, 1 and one on the way