Welcome To The Homemaker Lifestyle Blog

Welcome Homemakers! ♡

I’m very excited to share all about intentional homemaking, home management, seasonal meal planning, and other homemaker lifestyle related topics on this new homemaking blog! I appreciate you taking the time to be here. I’m looking forward to offering inspiration and motivation to homemakers, stay at home moms, and anyone who wants to turn their house into a haven. I’m excited to offer guidance and resources to help you create a lifestyle at home that you love.

What is homemaking?

Homemaking is about creating a home that’s comfortable, functional, and a wonderful place to be. It’s about intentionally living each day to create a lifestyle at home that uniquely blesses the people you live with. 

Homemaking at its most basic is the management of the household combined with the goal of making your house feel like a home. Homemaking is unique to each individual since the needs and desires of each family are unique as well! Homemaking is so much more than just doing the dishes, laundry, cooking, or cleaning. True homemaking is having a vision for the life at home we want our family to be able to experience, and then living intentionally to turn that vision into a reality.

A house is just a building. But a home is the place that you and your loved ones always want to come back to. Homemaking is filling your home with warmth, love, and care. It’s about creating systems, working with a sense of direction, and being intentional and thoughtful about how to bless the people you live with.

What is a homemaker?

A homemaker is someone who has decided to step into the role of managing and guiding the home, for the purpose of creating a life at home that benefits the people who live there. Homemaking is the combination of intentional living choices that a homemaker makes day to day to create a pleasant atmosphere in the home for the people they love. Homemakers guide their home life in a direction that reflects their values. 

We create and manage a home that functions well, is comfortable and inviting, and encourages our family to enjoy life. We know that “home” is an important place and worthy of our focus. We have decided to take our life at home and make something beautiful out of it. 

Intentional Homemaking - The 8 Foundations Of Homemaking

The 8 Foundations Of Homemaking is the system I created to organize the way I approach homemaking and improving as a homemaker. As I grew in my understanding of homemaking and home management over the years, I realized that homemaking could be divided into eight different focus areas. These focus areas have many related topics within each foundation. I then realized that by asking myself questions related to these topics, I could make intentional decisions about how I wanted to improve my homemaking in a way that’s authentic to me. 

Throughout this blog, I’ll be sharing all about The 8 Foundations Of Homemaking and dive into detail about the related topics in each of the focus areas! I’m so excited to share these blog posts, since there is so much I have learned over the years that has helped me. And the great part is, that there will always be more to learn. Homemaking is a lifelong journey to embrace and enjoy. It’s not a race to the end goal of “how to be the perfect homemaker”. Homemaking will change as we go through different seasons of our life, and that’s the beauty of the nature of homemaking.

If you want to get started with embracing intentional homemaking, grab “Intentional Homemaking: The Guide to Managing and Enjoying Your Life At Home” to get started!

The Homemaking Guide: Intentional Homemaking: The Guide to Managing and Enjoying Your Life At Home (The 8 Foundations of Homemaking)

The Seasonal Meal Planning System

I’ll also be sharing all about the Seasonal Meal Planning system I created that’s completely changed my family’s life for the better. I was so burnt out with weekly meal planning and I could hardly keep up with it. Monthly meal planning was even worse for me since it took even more time and ended up getting disorganized and not giving me the real structure I wanted in a family meal planning system. I decided to create my own system, and it made such a positive difference in my family’s day to day living that I knew this could change many other family’s lives, too. We’ve been using Seasonal Meal Planning for many years, and I can’t wait to share all about it.

Seasonal Meal Planning is a unique system I created where you write a one week menu that you repeat every week for an entire three month season. At the beginning of each of the four seasons of the year (winter, spring, summer, and fall) I create a new seasonal meal plan to last me for the entire season. There are many fun ways to customize the menu to add as much variety or structure as you’d like your meal plan to have. The main method of doing this is by choosing between the three different “meal slot types” which keep your meal plan from feeling too repetitive throughout the season. 

I can’t wait to share more details about the meal slot types, how to create your first seasonal meal plan, how to put together the grocery list to go along with your menu, how to write the weekly meal prep list, and so many more details about how to streamline the entire meal planning process! 

If you’re ready to dive in and create your first seasonal meal plan, grab “The Guide To Seasonal Meal Planning” for access to the templates, step-by-step instructions, and the tips and tricks I’ve learned along the way.

The Guide To Seasonal Meal Planning - No More Weekly Meal Planning!

Join the community

I’d love to hear about your homemaking journey so leave a comment below and tell me about what aspects of homemaking you are interested in! Thank you for being a part of this community, and I wish you all the blessings as you continue to embrace the homemaker lifestyle.

~ Jen

Welcome to The Homemaker Lifestyle Blog!