Sewing won the home making poll from last week so the next several weeks my home making posts will cover the lessons I teach my beginning sewers (ha! s-oh-er rather than s-ew-er). In our house my children are very spoiled. When they turn eight years old Grandma and Grandpa buy them their own sewing machine! […]
Home Making Post Quandary
How to teach our children – Gardening? Cleaning? Cooking? Hospitality? Sewing? As you can see I am in a bit of a quandary trying to decide what to center my home making posts on. I have ideas to share about each but you know how it can be sometimes with too many choices. It’s too […]
Favorite Household Chores
It was so much fun to read what people’s favorite chores are to do! There was basically a tie for Cooking/Meal Prep, Laundry, and Cleaning Floors (sweep/mop/vaccum). I have to say my favorite chore to do is laundry, especially when I can hang the clothes on the line to dry. And with the size of […]
The Humble Apron {GIVEAWAY}
Aprons. The word conjures up images of mother or grandma baking in the kitchen, or doing housework, or gathering eggs, wood, or flowers. It brings to mind days of yore when aprons protected the few dresses one owned. An apron is a shield to protect from food and grease, dirt and grime. It is also […]
Sunday Society & Keepers at Home
In September 2010 Julie B. Beck, General President of the Relief Society, spoke to the women of the church about the importance of learning the history of Relief Society. Some of the many reasons she gave were: “Understanding the history of Relief Society strengthens the foundational identity and worth of faithful women.” “We study our […]
Etching Glass Mugs {Tutorial}
I don’t know why it’s taken me eight children to finally think of permanently etching their names on individual cups. We’ve tried everything from assigning colors of plastic cups to names on pieces of masking tape. Now the proof cannot be washed away and has to be carefully used. Here’s the process we used to […]
Age Appropriate Chores/Skills
Think of some famous musician, sports player, or artist. How did they acquire the skills they have? Chances are for most of them it took work, lots and lots of dedicated work, learned sequentially and methodically, to achieve the level they are at now. The same lesson applies to us and to our children. Any […]
Home Improvements
Why is it after a big bout of sickness one feels like cleaning, decluttering and organizing? Whatever the reason that’s what we’ve been doing. I made a big huge list of all the home improvements needs and ideas I could think of to try and make our home run a little better. We’ve been slashing […]
Keeping Home While Battling Sickness
Yesterday was a “start again” day. It was very basic but we are back on our routine. After nearly two weeks of non-stop sickness, our family has finally emerged victorious from battling the germs, bacteria, and viruses that waged war on our bodies. Well, actually on everyone else’s since I never got sick and still […]
Homemaking Resources
With all the sickness and getting up all hours of the night to help the littles the past couple of weeks I didn’t get around to really writing the homemaking post I wanted to for today. Instead I thought I’d share some of the homemaking resources I’ve found. Some I have used, others I haven’t […]
Homemaking Skills: Where do I start?
Okay, you’ve decided you want to teach your children some homemaking skills. GREAT! But where do you start? It’s like saying I want to eat the whole chocolate cake. GREAT! How do I do it? Bite by manageable bite. To accomplish anything in a meaningful way we must have a plan. Start off big and […]
The ART of Making a Home
Being a homemaker is a hard job! Despite the spin the world puts on it, we do not lounge on the couch all day watching TV. We are not lazy burdens who do nothing while our husbands go out and work. Building a family involves both husband and wife working at their different and distinct […]
Why Homemaking?
“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley. “I wish I had time to tell you even a few of the tales or one or two […]
A Summer Cottage in Babylon
Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along… Yup, that was me merrily going along my way when one day in my personal study I came upon this scripture in Isaiah “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, […]
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