I realized today that I love the unique music you use. It’s an art arranging these videos. A lot of what you teach, I already do but I so enjoy the arrangement of your video and your insight that I’m always excited to watch.
Awe, thank you! I was a musician before getting married and starting a family and so the music is my favorite part of the editing process, I guess it shows, lol!
I'm so sorry, Shayla. I have Hashimotos, too, and flares are awful. 😢 Sending you virtual hugs. I'm in a season of overwhelm with a new baby, and I'm waiting for a major flare soon because sleep is minimal, and I feel like I'm nursing ALL DAY LONG and feeling exhausted. Our homestead, homeschool, and family dynamics make things really overwhelming. It's like we're trudging, the whole household. I hope this season passes quickly and we can find a groove. I feel like we aren't doing any of it well. Sigh...
TRUDGE. Means "to walk or march STEADILY in a laboriously fashion". So trudge is a GOOD thing. It means forward progress! forward progress in a effort filled, but also purposed filled, way in one direction....forward. Keep Trudging! don't wish for the 'season to pass quickly'. It will be over before you know it - 'This too shall pass' & that means that the good things pass just as quickly as the bad. It seems hard in the trenches right now, but all of a sudden you will wake up one day & realize that #1. no kid has wet their pants in a while, #2 you got a whole night's sleep #3 your eldest child can drive (& that means run errands FOR you LOL) #4 it is just you and you spouse clattering around in an empty house. I was where you are at right now (minus the homeschooling with babies around - different homeschooling journey for our family) and now my kids are 20 & 17. They have jobs, friends, hobbies, CARS, boyfriends, etc... they are never home! I have a husband that still works a lot & I am begging for another human to be at my house needing me. You will realize that even though it drove you to distraction back in the day, you would give your eye teeth for a day of it when they are all off doing their own thing! And now, I have all the time I want to garden, raise livestock, make everything, and take time to just enjoy being in a quiet house or do my hobbies. Just hang in there & ASK FOR HELP! And ask for SPECIFIC help !!!! People usually are much better able to give help that is very specific. When my new neighbor (with a 3 yo, an 8mos old & babysitting a 12 mom old) asks me something specific like: "my little boy is dying to go outside, but I can't watch him out there. Would you mind coming over & playing outside with him for a few minutes?" it is much easier for me to oblige & I am very happy to !!! If she txts me & just says a general, "I'm overwhelmed & at the end of my rope" I don't know HOW to help her, other than to encourage her through words. Asking for help is difficult, it requires humility because it means you have to acknowledge that you aren't doing some things well. But we are not meant to go it alone....We need others to trudge alongside us. I pray that you can reach out & ask someone for some specific help, that you are enjoying your new baby and that you can take a step back to get the rest and peace of mind that new mothers desperately need.❤❤❤❤
I am a wife and mom of 3 kids (2 bonus kids and 1 of my own). I have Hashimotos as well. Your videos especially this one has helped me out so much. You handle life’s challenges so gracefully and you do it all through your faith which I absolutely love. I’ve always wanted to get into homemaking but with Hashimotos i never felt like that could be possible. I watched dozens of videos of women homemaking and it made me feel so discouraged because I felt like my hashimotos was holding me back. You have given me a light at the end of the tunnel, you have made the impossible seem possible. Thank you! ❤️
I appreciate you and the content you put out sooo much! I am a momma to four and things are getting easier for me, but I well remember the days of having four kids under age 6. And now I have a community of dear younger mommas I’m pouring into. Your wisdom is being passed along, to the glory of God! I fully amend your sabbath rest. We actually started obeying the command to sabbath rest several years ago and it has made such a difference for many reasons! May the Lord continue to bless the work of your hands!
Hello! I'm the mom with the six littles. Thank you for responding to my question❤ you also solved my problems I've had with nachos and yogurt, so thank you very much for your encouragement and genuine kindness❤
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Great gourmet plate that your daughter set up. Haha. Your food looks delicious though anyway. I am glad you show the "win some lose some" recipes. I definitely see that homeschooling gets easier past about 3rd-5th grades, in my opinion. I wish I didn't stop with my older two. It seems so fun to have a homestead, even though it has so much work involved. I would love to do that. I am glad that you are doing the best you can and leaning on God to get you through every season. Goats are so cute and funny. I would love to have them one day maybe, but I would like to have my own house in general haha. Love your plants as always.
I appreciate you sharing both the beauty of the farm and the realities of the hard work and hours needed - I think one of the things that draws people to your channel is your honesty and transparency about real life situations we are all in in different ways.
So I just wanted to comment and tell you and I know you already know this, but we as your fans and customers are more than happy to wait while you serve your higher power and your family just had to say that to throw you some support. Hang in there!
I enjoy doing this as well. Analyzing your space and how it works for you and your family is so important. I don't keep up with organizing, but I do take time every 6 weeks or so to address my space.
Thank you for sharing! I think it's impressive that you figured out that six weeks is what works for your home/family. It isn't easy to figure that part out for some of us. Thank you again!
Flares sound awful :( You look great, didnt notice a change in your weight. Thank you for sharing your vulnerable side. Im starting homeschool this fall and today I feel overwhelmed.
Homeschool mom of 5 kiddos ❤️ I love your content. I don't have a homestead, but I can relate to what you're expressing. I have some symptoms that maybe I've been pushing aside and just saying it's because I'm a mom. It's part of the course. I have knowledge of natural remedies and nourishing food, but my health tends to go on the back burner. 😮😢😊
Thank you so much for commenting. Yes, if we keep putting our health last it eventually has a way of demanding all the burners eventually if we are not careful.
I hope u find peaceful way out of sadness soon I know SUNSHINE & one of my favorite poetry books helps me when im down. I also lean on certain biblical verses, but find inspiration that appeals to YOU. If u have family still in ur home, HUGS are a HUGE help. Even for a moody teenage girl ❤ @britneyduranko420
I’m just subscribed to your channel.. I was sent over by Tabitha! I too had Hashimoto disease. I ended up having my thyroid removed. It’s not an ideal situation because it’s harder to control without the thyroid. So far I’ve really really enjoyed your videos. I hope you have a blessed week! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your real life struggles, it so encourages me that I’m not alone, and you get it! Especially with being diagnosed with a disease, as I have Epilepsy and so many don’t get the struggle in the ups and downs. Which is understandable, but it is nice to know there are others out there who do get it!
This is absolutely true! I wish i could send it to every woman. you are spot on! This is excellent!! With every point that you made i felt like cheering - Amen sister!!
Ty for this video. It's so great to see Godly wise mommas around. So many young moms need to watch this. I'm gonna share it around as God puts on my heart. This was great! So glad you're feeling better.
This is the video I needed. 5 months postpartum and exclusively breastfeeding with my 4th at 44. Husband travels often for work, and we have a small farmstead I manage plus the home, and our kids are all 10 and under. I am so hard on myself and you said what I needed.
I really appreciate your vulnerability, encouragement, and wisdom about these topics. I am a young mom with two toddlers and pregnant with our third. I also have an autoimmune disease, ulcerative colitis. You have given me some really good insight and I am evaluating some things we are juggling that are working and not working, so thank you.
I laughed when you went on about you pick Hardy plants that don't require a lot of maintenance. I had to laugh my butt off. That was cute but friends are not easy to keep at least here in the out around. X we don't even see him in the woods anymore which is really sad
So nice to see you again. Love the green dress, it looks so nice on you. We all go through seasons of overwhelm. And its hard to see it come around again, I am sorry that you are in that season! Just finishing up a break from school, I needed to just stop completely... homeschooling high school is no joke. We will resume again next week and I feel better having a three week break where I didn't do a think for school. The kids have really enjoyed it too. Have the same health issues and I just don't know when things might need to shift. I am so thankful for your honesty and encouragement. Always love seeing the farm and all that you are inspired by.
Definitely YES to the overwhelm right now!!!! Chicks, piglets, pail feeding a motherless calf a mile away, incubator, culling old roosters/layers, disking & garden prep, and now....the spring 'company'/visiting season has commenced. My house is like a Tractor Supply, complete with in & out customers. LOL. I realized today that I hadn't taken a deep breath for like 15 minutes - for real. Or used the bathroom for hours. So my daughter & I took a 'break' went banking, riding around in her little car & went thrift shopping for a few minutes to relax. Our weather stinks & its making it hard to get stuff done. S0 it is huge bursts of activity as soon as the sun makes an entrance. I am cringing.... just WAITING for my back to go out, happens every May/June & I can never figure out what does it, because it seems weather related, or how to prevent it. this past year I have dedicated about a 1/2 hour walk in the woods with our dog & I have noticed how much healthier I have been!!!! The ONLY spring cleaning is sorting out the barn area for chick brooding & organizing the empty jars in the cellar to get ready for canning season. I do NOT worry about spring cleaning. Women used to have daughters that were 'around' until marriage to help, or had things like a 'mother's helper'. My grandmother had one, due to chronic illness & a disabled child. It would be a young lady that maybe needed a better home situation or needed to come live in town (down from the 'hills') in order to attend school. I have teen daughters that need to work pt jobs & not available or on a dependable schedule & there certainly are no 'mother's helpers' around anymore. So why worry about spring cleaning? *speaking for myself*....I think the 'reason' people (subscribers) like live footage is because it makes them feel like they are RIGHT there with you (you're cool to be there with!!!). Like they are over to someone's house, just hangin' out. The background noise & all of that is what gives the feeling of reality/real time. I find that I end up gravitating/slowly drifting away from channels that start out so simple & like y'all are friends chilling at home, but all of a sudden change to like a tv show, or too 'branded' or something. I am having trouble articulating it. & no, I'm not saying I'll necessarily "drift" on this channel. I can think of a couple of specific homesteading channels that I LOVED their early videos, but am not interested at all in the new stuff because they have actually gone to the 'trouble' to make like a stage/set design thing & it is more about branding than about just setting up a camera & taking you along on their journey. It goes from feeling very authentic, to fake. Finding that balance is hard I think. When I go to someone's house to learn something or visit, I don't expect their kids to get lost & everything to run smoothly - that is just not real life. I think your videos are great!!! You always have wise things to say & cool projects going on. Your home life reminds me very much of my own. It is somewhere I just want to hang.....
Liking before I even listen because I already know how helpful, insightful and encouraging this is going to be. And my weary heart needs it. 🥹 So very tired and sad. All the things. The Lord knows. I know I'm not the only one. Although sometimes we can feel so alone. Thank you for continuing in putting these works of art together for all of us!🤍
I'm so excited to hear your answers here! I end up incapacitated by exhaustion or migraines on a frequent enough basis that just having those one or two days taken away seems to derail my entire homemaking process! It leaves the house entirely in an uproar and seems to take me two weeks or more to get back on top of things 😅
I just love your videos so much! It is such a comfort to hear your heartfelt advice. As a mom of 3 kids under 7-I have a hard time feeling like the work is ever done. It’s taken quite awhile for the Lord to show me how to create boundaries around my time and how to really rest. I love what you shared about sabbath. I have found a lot of peace from starting to follow it as well. Keep up the good work! Your videos are so relaxing to watch and I love learning from you ❤
I appreciate your cheese sauce tip as well as the tip about straining the grease off broth. I didn't know you were supposed to strain it off❤ I made cheese sauce last week and it was curdled. It wasn't too bad we ate it but I was wondering how to get it from happening again. Thank you!
Another idea for straining the grease off - I put the broth in the fridge. It all cools down nicely, the broth gels and the grease hardens. Then i scrape it off. Usually I make it into usable "lard" then, which is really nice.
Thanks for saying this, we are not designed to do it all because we are human not a machine. We all need the to reflect, family, friendships, food, and rest. It even says on the 7th day He rested while he brought forth the worlds. Looking forward to your next video
Thank you for saying this! It’s so true you can’t do it all well. You’re about the same age as me & I have always homeschooled my 4 kids too. My husband career involves quite a bit of traveling. I use to think I had to do it all. I wish someone had told me this when I was young. I had major burn out! Now I’m that older homeschool mom trying to share with my younger mom friends. Love your content. I will share your channel with others.
Love you and your videos Shayla. I would love to know how do you keep being fit after having multiple kids. Do you workout or have your ways of staying active? Hope you make a video about self care as a busy mom and homemaker.
Awe, this is so sweet of you to say! I do not feel fit, lol! I am very, very active though, especially spring through fall. I also take supplements and enzymes with food and cleansing ones between meals. I love herbal teas that support the liver and body. I hope this helps!
@@mountainmamashome Thank you, indeed it helps. I will be following your channel more and more to hopefully learn more from you. I’m planning on getting married soon and that’s why very interested in home making and becoming a good wife. I’m grateful that lord allowed me to find your channel.
HAPPY WEDNESDAY IN APRIL. I have not watched your channel for quite a while. I am back and I have to catch up on your videos. We live in Pittsburgh PA and I will share your videos TO THE BURGH;STTB. LOVE YOUR HOME. STTB
Oh girl… I have hashimotos and it kicks my tail at times. The weight gain has been ridiculous. Nothing seems to help to lose it. The brain fog and there are days my legs feel so weak and achy. It’s so odd. Before I was diagnosed I had a summer that I couldn’t stand by 1:00 pm. It was so scary. If I did it felt like my legs would collapse under me. Rest is crucial. It’s hard to get that at times.
I love your videos and hate to see you struggling in this season right now. I’m from the PNW as well so your videos have always been close to my heart I look forward to them so much. Hearing you have ADHD plus Hashimotos was such a shocker! I do as well and I haven’t been about to figure out how to help my body natural. Do you have any suggestions? I’ve tried many pills from my doctor but nothing seems to help/ makes other things worse. I’m on constant burnout/overstimulated lately between the weight gain this spring, gardening, homeschooling preschoolers, leaning more into faith ect. I would love to know how you help your body when these flare ups occur. 💜
Hello Hanna! I find that remembering to eat well, and taking the vitamins specific to thyroid dysfunction, plus getting enough rest seem to make a big difference. Of course limiting outings and stress when I'm in a flare is really critical too. Can you look for a naturally minded practitioner in your area to help you? I hope this helps!
I suffered from anxiety from a little girl all the way to 24 years old. I’m 25 now last year I got delivered from anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, sexual assault, etc. As a Christian I was battling demons physical and spiritual demons. It took me awhile to realize that all my anxiety rooted from my childhood trauma. Funny thing about trauma it didn’t show up until when I got married. Being freed by Christ is life changing. Not only did God delivered me from anxiety/panic attacks. He healed my marriage is the process.
Why do you take off the grease on your broth? Just curious. I've made broth for over ten years and I've never done this. Is there a reason? Thank you 😊
Hello Jacki! Yes, I take it off for a variety of reasons. One is I've had gallbladder issues and from time to time still do. Another is I can't stand the taste of it. I'd prefer to make soap with the beef broth grease! I just toss the chicken fat grease though because I can't handle the flavor.
