Day in the Life of a Homesteading Mom of 6
For more great Instant Pot recipes, please visit InstantPotEasy.com
Today I’ll be taking you along on a day in my life. Join me as I tend to our small homestead, bake some delicious meals from …
You might also like
Leave a Reply
Want to join the discussion?Feel free to contribute!
Lovely video Justine and it was so lovely to see you all saying the Rosary together. Your children won’t remember you for the clothes you folded they’ll remember you for the love you shared. God bless. Xx
You are doing amazing and loving work for your family, it's so inspiring and beautiful to see. I really love to watch you take care of the important things. Thank you for your joyful videos Justine☀️
Interesting, thanks for the advice)
Dusting the soil of your plants with cinnamon helps keep mold from growing. Also, making your French toast casserole the night before saves time. Thank you for sharing your beautiful life. Your home is lovely!
Thanks for this video! Could I ask where your music is from? I loved it! 😊
New sub. Love the overvoiced video….great content
I always look forward to your videos!❤❤
This is how my large family does laundry.
-Everyone is assigned their own day.
-Everyone has their own basket. We do not mix with other peoples laundry!
-On the assigned day the person washes their clothes and bedding/towel. We do not sort the clothes by color or anything.
-Start at breakfast, switch at lunch (and start bedding/towel), fold and put away at dinner time (switch bedding/towel to dryer) bedding is done and put on when it’s time to start bedtime routine.
Kitchen towels and throw blankets just go in as needed with whoever’s day it is!
Hope this helps
You are a wonderful mother and wife, such a hardworker. Im a momma to 8 , my youngest is 7. For laundry I only wash 6 peoples clothing at this point older children do their own washing now. The biggest game changer throughout the years was to keep decreasing their items of clothing , so each person has only 7- 10 complete outfits and we use a family closet for the youngest so that all clothing is staying in one room dirty and clean. I have also heard other tips that I do not use but could be helpful for you , like no longer folding and everyone has a clean bin labeled and you just throw their clothes in . Seasons change so quickly in life you are doing great!
Hello Justine! Thank you for another wonderful video! I feel so peaceful after spending time with you and your beautiful family. God bless you.
P.S. The rug looks so lovely. And I just love your family, Rosary!
I do 1 or 2 loads a day. I wash, dry, and sort. My kids help me fold and everyone puts their own clothes away. The kids also put away rags and towels. My laundry hamper is my washer. I wash a load every night and toss it in the dryer first thing in the morning. If I have another load, or it’s sheet day, I start another kid.
Same for dishes. Dishwasher gets started after dinner and I put away in the morning.
Floors also get sept every night before bed. If I do this Bedford bed, I have a jump start to the next day.
French toast casserole is one of our favs. Our days look very familiar. Minus the cows lol, you are a hardworking mumma! ❤️
Laundry! This used to be a huge issue for me and we finally worked out a system that functions for our large/homesteading/homeschool family. I have 5 kids and one on the way. We used to do the one load a day and I remember the point where it stopped working and the overwhelm that came with it as well. Not only do I have messy farm clothes as a constant but my husband also works a manual labor job that generates a lot of dirty clothes and because he works outside year round, he wears a lot of layers. Add to it the kitchen towels, milking rags, regular towels, cloth diapers when I feel up for it and its just a lot! What was a game changer for us was a family closet of sorts. We don't actually have space to devote to a family closet in our little 1100 sq ft house but next to the washer and dryer in the basement my husband built a shelf and each child has 2 bins. One for pants and shirts and one for underwear and pajamas. We don't fold any laundry anymore, its just stuck in the bins and since they're mostly play/farm clothes anyways it really doesn't matter if there are a few wrinkles (though they surprisingly aren't that bad!). My husband has 4 bins- shirts, pants, long underwear/sweatshirts and socks/underwear. My clothes are hung on a small rod along with the kids few "nice" outfits that would be like special occasions/ church clothes. Everyone has about 4/5 regular clothing options and 2 nice options. I also have one basket for upstairs things (towels, the 1 and 3 year olds clothes since I like those to be on the main level, etc). Each morning i have one child in charge of the first load of laundry. Their job is to switch any laundry in the washer to the dryer, start a new load of clothes and put away any baskets that are sitting and waiting. Because they don't have to fold, this isn't a huge task and my 7, 9, and 11 year olds all have times where they are in charge of this. I use powder laundry soap because it is easy for them to scoop when starting a load. Then after lunch it is another childs chore to go down and switch loads, put away anything dry and start a load if there is enough to do so. At night my husband and I will often start another load if needed and any ready to be folded loads will sit in a basket for the morning child to put away. Often my husband and I are starting the diaper or towel loads. I wash all clothing and bath towels together without sorting but kitchen and cow rags get bleached so the adults handle starting those loads. Then once or twice a week I'll bring the "upstairs basket" up and put those items away. Laundry is always caught up within maybe a 1 load buffer and even when I was down and out with morning sickness things stayed on track which is how I knew we had "arrived" for this season. Another amazing upgrade is that my husband cut in a laundry shoot from our main floor that drops clothes right near the washer. Its so convenient but this system still worked before we had it. We just had a single laundry basket in the hallway before and when it was each childs chore time they brought the basket downstairs. I hope this all makes sense typed out. It would be so much easier to show you haha, but maybe something in this set up will help you get a new system on track. I love your videos, I can relate to them so much and I hope the channel continues to grow!!
Give yourself the grace- you don’t have to fold the children’s laundry. It’s Okay . ❤ Plenty of people don’t. Including The Minimal Mom who is also on YT. First time watching you and all that you do amazes me! After all that hard work in the morning THEN exercising 😮 you’re doing a fantastic job. God bless! ❤
Watching from Belgium, love the memiries as family of 7 children, helping my father afther his job wit hay, straw, beets, turnips, potatoes and vegetables for us, ly mother worked in the house, was also knitting for woolshops, and for us by hand and on machine and also sewing chlothes, now i'm 62 and have not a good health, but enjoy watching and the good memories 😊, greetings Lutgarde
Wow you are an amazing mom. God bless you and your family. Love your videos, thank you 😊
Justine, you are an amazing mom, homemaker and worker. I'm exhausted just watching you. I'm sure your family knows how great you are. Ty for these videos. I love them. I learn so much from you.
Your sandwich loaves were beautiful. Wish I could smell it, then have a wsrm slice with butter and jam or honey.
Delicious food. I still love a good pb&j sandwich!
Your doing a great job!❤ your food looks amazing.❤
I always look forward to your videos.🥰
Thanks for sharing a day in the life! It’s Thursday and I was looking forward to my down time to watch a Justine video! 😊
your sure a hard worker and a wonderful mom as the kids get older they will be your helpers more. Wink lol As 78 year old woman I miss my mommy days so much but I look at what wonderful children raise with God's help I have full heart of joy. God Blesss your and your sweet family too.
Family rosary! Good for you.
Great video
Do you ever make your french toast casserole the night before and just bake it the next morning? This saves a lot of time for us.