Perhaps today isn’t the best day for me to share with you a “day in the life of a homemaker” video. After all, I may have pouted quite vocally about the list of tasks the home held for me this morning.
But then I figured you all are humans too. Humans that ebb and flow with the demands of work and home and the ever-charged battle that the two seem to be engaged in.
Humans have good days and bad days, productive days and distracted ones. Even still, someone has to feed the children and clean the toilets. For many of us, caring for families and homes is an irrevocable part of our world. And whether we wake up feeling like it or not, there is good work to be done.
So today I want to invite you alongside a fairly typical homemaking day for me. We start by milking the cow, quickly move onto garden work and harvest, swiftly shift into breakfast mode, and on and on it goes. The day I filmed this video was “bedroom and bathroom” day, which means that I’m also sharing a view into my bedroom and bathroom for the first time as I clean…
There are some tasks not included in the video. Organizing school curriculum, moping floors, running kids to jiu jitsu, the post-dinner-clean-up… but even still, I hope it encourages those of you out there who go about your day in a similar way that you’re not alone. I believe the work of a homemaker is a lifelong pursuit and offers deep value to our families and ultimately, our culture.
So even if you’re scrubbing stains out of pant knees today – charge forward, my friends! And have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers,
Shaye
The hardest, most rewarding & most important job ever : ). And most beautiful. The work we do for our families is beautiful : ). And beautiful in the eyes of God : ). Loved your video. God bless
You create content about being a homemaker. Let’s be real.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this video!! While my husband deeply appreciates being fed well made home cooked meals with ingredients from our gardens, family raised beef/poultry etc., I get zero appreciation for keeping the house. The amount work, effort and time that goes into keeping house well is far more than many people realize and very often goes unrewarded. So I try to take time little bits here and there to appreciate my own work. Once a project is done or task is completed, it really puts a smile on my face regardless of whether or not the other members of the house even notice.