Comments on: Online Homemaking Class Coming Soon!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:33:40 +0000

2 Great Tips I have gotten…..
-Freezing meat flat in a freezer bag allows it to thaw quickly making impromtu meals easier
-homemaking binders can help you stay organized(chores,fincances, family birthdays, addresses etc)

Best of luck with your project!

By: Faith

Faith — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:53:42 +0000

I would like some help keeping a joyful attitude, so maybe a lesson about where to find inspiration, motivation, and joy for all the little things we do everyday.

I am also interested in advise conserning paperwork, organization, what to keep, how and where to keep it. It tends to get stuffed into drawers at my house ;(

I absolutely love this site, btw, and look forward to an online homemaking class. Thank you

By: cindy

cindy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:02:21 +0000

I would like help with cooking and cleaning. I feel overwhelmed with my house and I am not consistent in what I do. I work full time as a nurses assistant but it is graveyard shift. I am exhausted most of the time and I feel bad because my daughters are embarrased to have friends over sometimes. I clean every day but I can’t seem to keep up. I have them help too but I am not good with making them, or myself stick to a schedule (they are 10 and 15). My husband helps some of the time, but not much. I feel like a failure a lot of the time. When my mother-in-law comes over I feel horrible because her house is spotless and mine isn’t. I just don’t know how to get the deep cleaning done. I constantly see things that need a really good scrubbing but I don’t have the time then or sometimes the energy. Cooking does not come easy to me and that is a struggle too. When I was growing up I was constantly criticized for any cleaning I did and I don’t know if there is an emotional component going on here or not. Any help would be great. Thanks….

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:45:17 +0000

Even though I’m a mother of 4, my mother didn’t have the patience to teach me alot of things like, cooking (I can’t stand to cook, but, I have to), I would love to learn to organize everything & have step-by-step instructions on how to organize my life. I’d love to learn how to cook (even though we don’t have much money), and how to keep my sanity throughout it all. How to figure out what to keep & what to get rid of. How to sew. How to garden. How to do everything I need to do without feeling so over-whelmed with it all! I have to manage 6 people & I don’t know where to start first! The only meats I know how to cook is chicken & hamburgers most of the time. I’m scared to cook other meats because I don’t know what to do with them & I don’t know what to do with alot of foods! My mother was never an encourager to me so I feel like I can’t ever do anything right. Where do I begin? And helps?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:18 +0000

I would love my daughters to take a homemaking course with me (or on their own as teens like to do!) My 16 year old is doing “Home Ec” as a subject, but it’s not exactly the curriculum i was hoping for. They just see housework as drudgery, rather than managing family life for God’s glory.
An online, fill-in-the-blank, or quiz/project would be great! Maybe interview moms with big families as a project?

By: Joyce

Joyce — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:35:26 +0000

I think organizational skills in homemaking is the most important. I have 2 grown daughters, I tried to teach them good homemaking skills, cleaning, organizing their rooms, daily routine of cleaning and taking care of their own belongings. Apparently I did not do such a good job, they have trouble now as homemakers and moms trying to keep up with their homes and with teaching their own children!! Please help!! J
God bless you for all the work you do, may your rewards be many!
Joyce (in Virginia)

By: Brenda

Brenda — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:57:51 +0000

Here would be my topic. What would you define as Biblical success in homemaking? As far as what would it look like and what verses would you give to support it. This would kind of be as apposed to what we might think is sucess vs what God says.

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:56:56 +0000

Hi Malia,
I know you are working on a homemaking newsletter. Here are the questions I have mostly related to cleaning that I’d love answers for:

What is the best technique/product(s) to throughly clean:

1.shower doors/soap scum buildup in shower stall?

2. smudge marks on hardwood floors?

3. light colored vinyl flooring in kitchen, which is a high traffic area. Dirt gets into little grooves in the flooring. How to get it REALLY clean and shiny.

4. wood window shades?

5. how to remove stuck on hairspray from bathroom counter tops?

6. wash walls?

By: Risha

Risha — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:55:27 +0000

If I were to sign up for you Homemaking class I would most want to learn about training children to do chores. I have five children ages 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2. I find it difficult to keep everyone working and I usually end up doing all the work myself.

Thank you Malia, for your talk this morning. I am so motivated to bring order to my home!

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:54:00 +0000

What We would like to see in an online homemaking class:

The most useful thing to our family in an online Home Ec class would be little “How This is Done” pieces. These could include, but not necessarily be limited to, descriptions of how to do the job in question, a checklist the person doing the job could use to make sure they were following along right, and maybe even a picture or pictures of what it should look. “How This is Done” could be applied to cleaning, cooking, baking, errands, organizing, I think really anything you can imagine. It would be up to you.

While many families have mothers that have come from good homes and know these things and can teach their children, there are increasing numbers of women that have reached adulthood without ever having learned these things for themselves. Some people, like myself, are simply limited physically in what we can model for our children, but still want them to learn. A baseline of “How This is Done” pieces would make your course appealing to both adults and youth.