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This season we will be doing a Deep Dive on the 4th and final pillar of homemaking, community. In preparation, I wanted to revisit the other 3 pillars-Identity, Values & Priorities, and Rhythms & Routines. Last season, in Monday Motivation we covered Identity and I will be revisiting Values & Priorities in the newsletter soon.

Today, let's tackle Pillar 3, Rhythms & Routines. I will begin with a brief explanation of the main concepts; what is it and what it means for the homemaker. Then I will talk about the first of 4 Essential Rhythms of Christian life, REST.

NOTES & LINKS

Episode Blog Post

Deep Dive Pillars Series

• Identity with Susan Macias
• Values & Priorities with Karen Sheppard and Joi Welch
• Rhythms & Routines with Leslie Lucadou

Monday Motivation Identity Series

• Who Are You, Homemaker? Identity Pt.1
•  Rehab for Your Heart, Identity Pt. 2

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Welcome to the first long-form episode of Season 24! Today you'll get to meet In-the-Trenches Homemaker, Rachael Bomsta of Healing Home. I am also answering a mail bag question about my favorite cleaning products. 

About Today's Guest: Rachael  is a very busy mama to 4, soon to be 5 little boys, She works full time as a church staff member and as a content creator with her business, Healing Home. Racheal and her husband, Dan, also run a 40 acre homestead in Minnesota. 

Before they met, Dan suffered a traumatic brain injury that has affected every aspect of their lives, yet, God gives them what they need each day to make the home-centric life they desire for their family work. 

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

CONNECT WITH RACHAEL

Websites| healinghome.com & healinghomerecipes.co

Instagram | @healing_home_

YouTube | @healinghome

Bible Reading Plans and Prayer Plans 

Homemaking Planner (with a membership upgrade) 

Einkorn Sourdough Guide 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Homemaking Deep Dive | Cleaning 101, Season 23, E4

Allison's Favorite Cleaning Products

• Kitchen All-Purpose: Mrs. Meyer's concentrate + microfiber
• Kitchen Sink: Barkeeper's Friend + Scrub Daddy
• Glass: Windex + microfiber
• Bathroom & Disinfecting: Pine Sol Concentrate + Water (1:4 ratio)
• Dusting: Swifer duster or feather duster, Pledge + cloth diaper
• Floors: first, dry clean with swifer or vacuum, then steam mop using only water, but put drops of lavender essential oil on removable steam mop pad

Redeeming Childbirth | Angie Tolpin

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Welcome to Season 24 and Year 5 of The Art of Home! 🎉 

Do you ever wonder why we make a months-long celebration out of the Incarnation of Jesus at Christmas, but barely give a weekend to commemorate His sacrifice and resurrection from the dead at Easter? 

What do we do with a holiday that centers around the death and resurrection of our King? How do we integrate that into our homemaking? 

Today we are going to tackle how we can cultivate an environment of remembrance and rejoicing during this holiest of weeks by declaring with food, words, candles, music, flowers, fabric---whatever resources you have that He suffered and died for our sins AND that He is risen! He is risen indeed!

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Scripture Mentioned: 

• Isaiah 53:5
• Revelation 13:8

General:

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy: Morning and Evening Meditations for Holy Week | Desiring God

Jesus the King: An Easter Devotional by Tim Keller | YouVersion Bible App

Resurrection Eggs (DIY)

Food:

Empty Tomb Cookies

Taste & See: Discovering God Among Butchers, Bakers and Fresh Food Makers | Margaret Feinberg

Flowers:

Easter Lily Care & Meaning | Southern Living

Color:

Significance of Color in the Bible | gotquestions.org

Music:

Passion Week Playlist

Resurrection Playlist

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Jessica Fisher has been keeping a home with her husband for 31 years and they have raised and homeschooled 6 kids. She is passionate about living debt-free and she shares all her knowledge and debt-free ideas, especially food savings on her blog, goodcheapeats.com. She also has some great resources for moms on her blog lifeasmom.com. 

Today, you are going to get to know Jessica and hear her homemaking story from domestic-minded college student, to tiny-house-living newlywed, to a running a large household with 6 kids. She gives us a few quick, super helpful tips for food savings and how she budgets her time using a planner she designed for herself out of necessity in the trenches of motherhood. 

EPISODE LINKS & NOTES

Chalk Paint Favorites

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Purdy Paint Brushes

Wax Brushes

CONNECT WITH JESSICA

food website | goodcheapeats.com

mom blog & resource shop | lifeasmom.com

instagram | @goodcheapeatsblog @lifeasmomdotcom

Jessica's Laundry System | Kid's Can Do Laundry, Best Tips for Laundry Management for Families

Jessica's Print & Go Planner

The Hidden Art of Homemaking | Edith Schaeffer

Jessica's recipes will be available in the next newsletter, 2.28.25 or for future reference search "Jessica Fisher" at theartofhomepodcast.com

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It’s spring time and at our house that means lots of birthday celebrations. Whether you have a big family or several birthdays in one season, elaborate celebrations and gifts can quickly turn something meant for joy into a burden and a chore. 

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a good party with themed decor, food, the works, but I don’t feel the need to pull out all the stops with every celebration, especially when my kids were little. 

In today’s Monday Motivation, I want to share some of the simple ways we celebrated and continue to celebrate birthdays in our home.

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

All recipes and sewing patterns will be in the next newsletter. Subscribe below.⬇️

If listening far in the future, go to our website and search "Simple Birthdays".

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Today’s guest was nominated by her daughter, Sydney, who wrote on the nomination form, "My mom has given her entire life to raising me and my six siblings. Five of us were adopted, many with trauma that needed special attention. She has shown strength and dignity through it all. She is an inspiration to me as I am a brand new homemaker and I believe her wisdom will be a blessing to many others."  

I am so thankful that Sydney nominated her mom, Heather Price, who has been keeping a home full time for 30 years with her husband. They have raised 7 and fostered many more and God has refined Heather through all the challenges of adopting traumatized and special needs kids. We talk about God’s faithfulness, the need to stay flexible, and to constantly remember His unchanging character and what He has done in the past. 

We cover all the usual ground of expectations, hospitality, fails, wins, and many more aspects of Heather’s homemaking journey over 3 decades.

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

Our Favorites for Tim Keller

• Walking with God  in Pain in Suffering by Tim Keller
• Jesus the King by Tim Keller (a walk through the Gospel of Mark), previously published as King's Cross

Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Recommended Chalk Paint: Annie Sloan

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We are so blessed in this era to have gadgets and gizmos a plenty that make our homemaking life so much easier than our foremothers, but we need to care for those work-savers so they keep on serving us well for years to come. 

Today we are talking about cleaning tips and schedules for some common large and small appliances.

NOTES & LINKS

Be Our Guest: Apply or Nominate through February 17, 2025| theartofhomepodcast.com/guest

Free Printable Appliance Maintenance Check List | theartofhomepodcast.com/appliance

Deep Dive Cleaning 101 Episode

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In this episode, I am chatting with in the trenches homemaker, Amber Reesor, who has been keeping a home with her husband, Curtis, for 10 years. They have 2 little girls who as Amber says, completely changed her heart for homemaking.  

We talk about the amazing legacy of contentment and hospitable generosity her parents created, the impact it has had on her own homemaking and how she is working to pass on the same legacy to her girls. 

Amber shares how taking up a simple gratitude journal practice gave her the skills to identify and overcome a grumbling spirit in her homemaking and what the Lord is teaching her through the challenge of homemaking in someone else’s house. 

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CONNECT WITH AMBER

Website | littlereesorhouse.com

YouTube | @littlereesorhouse

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer

Recommended YouTube Homemaking Channels

• Megan Fox Unlocked
• This Golden Hour
• Pine and Prospect Home

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Last week, I gave you some ideas for celebrating Valentine’s day and expressing your love through simple acts of homemaking like cooking your family’s favorite food, leaving loving notes around the house, playing music tied to special memories and even some ways to ignite the flame of marriage. Today, I’d like to explore how we can express our love for those in our home through a homemaking task we all love to hate; laundry. 

We'll talk about transforming laundry from drudgery into delightful opportunity of love by checking your expectations, taking the time to teach, and letting go of some control through delegation. I also have some helpful laundry resources for you. 

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

Original Newsletter Article: "Expressing Love Through Homemaking; In the Laundry Room" (all links, including "Song from the Suds" printable poem)

• Laundry Symbols Chart on Canva
• How to Iron Shirts YouTube Video
• How to Iron Pants YouTube Video
• Laundry Inspired Art

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I am chatting with Laura Ruoff about her 18 years of keeping a home with husband, Chris, and their 11 year old son.

We chat about all the things; challenges, expectations, fails and wins—how Laura is coming to terms with the illusion of perfectionism and balance, especially in her current season of being an entrepreneur. 

Laura owns a women’s self-defense school called Hips-n-Clips. Laura is a certified pistol instructor and range safety officer and she is passionate about teaching women all things self-defense. Laura is first and foremost a homemaker and as a fan of the Art of Home, she applied mainly to share her story of home. 

But I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with her specifically about women’s safety and self defense. So we spend some time in the middle of this interview talking about some of the basics. Laura is great resource and she gracious shares some really great information here that will benefit all of you. 

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

GUEST APPLICATIONS & NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! (close 2.17.25 or once all spots are filled) 

CONNECT WITH LAURA

Website | hipsnclips.com

YouTube | @HipsnClips

Instagram | @hips_n_clips

Mentioned in This Episode

POM (Peace Of Mind) Pepper Spray | Buy | How-to Video

Laura's Recommended Video on Simple Self-Defense Moves

No Ordinary Home: The Uncommon Art of Christ-Centered Homemaking by Carol Jo Brazo

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