July Theme: Old School Summer
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It starts around the first week of June. The school backpacks are barely in the closet before I see it creeping into my feed — camp registration deadlines, summer activity schedules, enrichment programs, sports sign-ups. The message underneath all of it is quiet but persistent: a good mom fills her kids’ summer. But after 35…
What if getting dinner on the table this summer took less than 30 minutes and left you with energy to actually enjoy the evening? There’s something about June that makes me want to close the cookbook. Not because I don’t love cooking — y’all know I do. But summer changes things. The days are long….
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June always feels like the exhale after a long sprint. School winds down, the pace shifts, and home life begins to settle into something slower and sweeter. Here in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, the mornings are finally warm enough to sit on the porch with a cup of coffee, and the garden is starting…
As a homemaker who has raised a houseful of children and rushed through many days and weeks, I learned that rushing doesn’t make life more enjoyable, it doesn’t create the memories that carry us forward, and it doesn’t add more time to our days. I used to find myself rushing through the days, just trying…
Homemaking as a calling looks different from homemaking as a duty — and after 35 years, I can tell you the difference changes everything about how the work feels. I’ve been a homemaker for over 35 years. I’ve swept the same floors thousands of times. Made the same pot of my mama’s bean soup every…
I’ve had more than a few conversations with moms who’ve tried a chore system, watched it fall apart by week two, and quietly decided their kids just weren’t the chore-doing type. I want to gently push back on that. The chore system didn’t fail because your kids are difficult. It failed because most chore systems…
There’s a particular kind of tired that comes from living in a home that feels like too much. Not dirty, necessarily. Just — full. Full of things that don’t have a home, decisions that never got made, and a low-grade sense that you should probably deal with it all sometime. You walk past the same…
For years, I stayed at home and felt like what I did at home didn’t have much value. Here’s what finally changed — and why you don’t have to earn permission to love your life. The Miserable Mom Era is out. And I say that as someone who lived in it longer than I’d like…
Maybe you just got married and realized nobody actually taught you how to run a house. Maybe you’ve been at it for years and still feel like you’re making it up as you go. Or maybe you’re somewhere in between — doing the best you can but wondering if there’s a better way. If any…