August Theme: The Prepared Home
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A well-stocked pantry saves time, money, and stress. Do you know which staples every homemaker should keep on hand to make meal prep easier? There’s something deeply comforting about opening your pantry and seeing the shelves lined with jars, cans, and baskets of ingredients ready to use. A stocked pantry isn’t just about convenience —…
My kitchen counter is covered in canning jars right now. Not the pretty, lined-up-in-rows kind you see on Pinterest — the kind that are still sticky from last week’s peaches, half of them missing lids, one stack threatening to topple every time I walk past. And if you’d told me a few years ago that…
By August, I can always feel it coming — that little shift in the air, even before the heat actually breaks. The August Homemaker’s Notebook is here to help you meet it on purpose instead of getting caught off guard. Is your home ready for what’s coming next, or is fall going to sneak up…
If you grew up in the country like I did, you know there’s nothing better than a homegrown tomato in the middle of summer. Eat them straight off the vine, slice them up to serve fresh alongside your Sunday dinner, or add some sweet cherry tomatoes to your pasta salad for lunch – or my…
Do you ever wonder what our grandmothers knew that we don’t? I just know that at some point a few decades ago, they decided that home economics, family consumer sciences, and consumer math were no longer going to be taught in our schools. So now we have entire generations of women who don’t really have…
When my kids were growing up, I used to hang the laundry on the line every week. I’d enlist a child to come help me, and I’d enjoy the breeze, the sunlight dappling through the tree leaves, and the quiet. We had to cut the trees down that used to hold my clothesline, and I’m…
By July, I always find myself thinking back to the summers I grew up with, the kind with no real plans, where the days just filled themselves up on their own. There were sprinklers in the yard and popsicles before supper, screen doors slamming all afternoon, and bikes left lying in the grass because you…
What is it about summer that makes hospitality feel both more natural and somehow more intimidating at the same time? Maybe it’s because there’s more time — which means more opportunity to host. Or maybe it’s because Pinterest exists and now we think every gathering needs a linen tablecloth and a fancy charcuterie board. But…
There’s a moment most homemakers know. You look at your bank account mid-month and the number is lower than it should be. You didn’t do anything extravagant. You didn’t go on a trip or buy something expensive. The money just… went. And you can’t quite account for where. That feeling is what a spending plan…
There’s a reason some homes just run. Not perfectly — no home runs perfectly. But there are homes where dinner happens at a reasonable hour, where someone knows where the insurance cards are, where the cleaning gets done before it becomes a crisis. And there are homes where everything feels like organized chaos on a…