You are truly a God honoring woman. Your words drip with Godly wisdom. God is being glorified through you! Thank you so much for sharing and already encouraging me to live differently after only one day of listening to the truth you share! I now know this truly is not wishful thinking... it is God's will and He will bring blessing as we pursue this way of life. I know this now truly to be for me to seek after as well, and oh you give ao many practical tips to make it doable!! Seriously, thank you! And never stop sharing so we can continue to learn from you ❤️ God bless you and your family!!
From a 70+-year old, you are truly a very wise young woman and a great inspiration. Not only do you motivate me in my homemaking, you give me hope for the future! You are not only teaching the younger women, your message is reaching and teaching all women. You will surely be blessed as you have blessed others. :)
I'm also 70+ and I get so inspired watching and listening to you. You're so real and honest. Bless you Kelli and God keep you always in the palm of His Hand.
I'm 29 with 3 boys and a husband of 10 years ❤ we recently started doing family goal planning every 6 months and our next one is coming up this weekend. God is so good, your video is so encouraging and so timely for me. "What can I do with the resources I have" and "The work you put your hands to is glorifying to the Lord" were just a couple things that stuck out to me in all that you said. Thank you for making this video. I also SUPER love the idea of writing down my journey and what works for me so I can pass it down to my own children and grandchildren. How SPECIAL. What a beautiful idea! Thank you thank you ❤
I love that you guys do a 6 month family goal meeting! And thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement, I'm so thankful it's helpful! God bless you guys, and I'm so excited for you with writing down all the things you learn!
Well, I guess I’d better comment because I, too, am 70 plus. Ha! I do love watching you and take to heart what you share about the importance of taking our roles seriously. My role of being wife, mother, grandmother, home maker and especially child of God and sister to those who are His are a truly high calling. I’m a work in progress but learn more every day and all to His glory. Thank you for all you do to help others who are on this life journey.
I love this! I'm a bride to be (getting married in May 💕) and I want to learn all I can about being a good wife whom my husband can depend on, specifically with home economy. Your videos are so helpful💛🧺🪺 my friend and I just finished reading through Proverbs together which is always lovely and helpful. 1 Peter 3 has been the section of the Bible I've been going back to over and over again.
Yayy, how exciting and congratulations!! and you are ahead of the game, already preparing to be a godly wife who builds her home! May God bless you both as you finish this engagement season well and I'm so excited for you to be married! And you are so right Proverbs and 1 Peter 3 are also sooo good to consistently meditate on!
This video is so inspiring. I love watching your channel so much. May God richly bless you in all of your endeavors. You are truly a woman looking well to the ways of her household. Proverbs 31
Love these types of videos! So encouraging and also great reminders to walk your own path inspired by others not mimicking others. Grains in Small Places recently put out a video about starting sourdough starter from scratch with fresh milled flour. Her channel is a great resource for all things fresh milled flour. I’ve heard that using fresh milled rye works well, and then you can switch to whatever fresh milled you want once it’s established. I’m actually going to give that a try starting tomorrow since we are finally done traveling for a bit and my rye berries arrived. Another trick is to add some raisins to the starter until it’s stronger then take them out.
Thanks for the encouragement! I started my starter about a year ago and just purchased a grain mill. I’ll Also be starting my garden for the first time this summer. Likely in pots. But I appreciate the idea so slowly becoming who you want to be step by step skill by skill. 😅
Good points❤. My husband makes his own coffee daily, and we take turns cooking our dinners and lunches from scratch, i make gf bagels, english muffins, gf white sandwhich bread, oat tortillas and sorghum pita bread, gf pumpkin bread, and oatmeal cookies for me. My daughter has throat birth defects and I have made her SO much from puree real food to vegan goldfish crackers, oat raspberry mini pancakes, buckwheat mini waffles, and indian toast with curry and mexican oatmeal with oatflour, 3 types of hummus with different dry beans I grind. Glory to God for me learning anything as Im a hot mess with learning new things and I still make mistakes on old recipes❤😂. We use store bought crackers and sunbutter and coconut yogurt so I am doing a balance and want us to be thankful for all types of food. Homemade or not❤❤❤
This is wonderful how much you make from scratch and that you are able to adapt it to the needs of your family, what a blessing. The sorghum pita bread sounds delicious, I have a lot of sorghum that I bought to mill and still haven't explored much with it, so I will look into the pitas!
Modern homesteading was popular way before 2018. 😉 I discovered it in the late 90s, but didn't really purpose to implement all I could until the early 00s. I remember distinctly making a list of all the children and I could learn, make, do, etc, right where we were - in the middle of a big city. That paved the way for small town urban homesteading, and then, finally, actual (modern) homesteading in about 2015. Now the children are all grown, married, and having children of their own, but each family carries on doing their best and we all live near each other in the country. It's such a blessing to see my grandchildren gardening and helping their parents make basic things like corn tortillas from their own corn that they helped sow, tend, harvest, grind, and use. Or butter and cheese from milk they helped get from the family goats or cows. Or eat a lamb roast that came from the lamb that they watched being born, helped raised, helped take to butcher, and helped cook. Or eating eggs they gathered that day. There are so many things I've produced at home over the years. Many I continued doing, but some I've decided to choose saving my physical energy over producing an alternative at home. One example I can think of is ziploc freezer bags. They sure come in handy when I'm harvesting the strawberries and raspberries!! At least I know how to live without them... but for now I choose to be thankful I can use such a convenience. If ever I didn't have access to a freezer, we'd just eat all the fresh berries we could, make jam for the year, dry some for winter, and sell or give the rest away. Anyway... I love this subject. 😊😊 Blessings, Joanne in SW MO
This is so encouraging! I find the more i work outside of our household, the more I want to partake in retail therapy for stress relief.... haha. Instead, working more with my hands is more purposeful and productive. Thanks for the lovely content Kelli!
Hi Kellie ❤ This video was SUCH a blessing!!!! I was wondering if you would prayerfully consider making a video on how you stay so joyful and God honouring while in a season of waiting for children? I know you have mentioned that you are choosing to stay private about your actual TTC journey which I completely respect, but was wondering if you could share your wisdom on how to cope month to month… it is exhausting. Please disregard this comment if you choose to not speak on this issue!! I hope it is ok that I asked 🙏🏼xx
Hi Jacqueline! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in asking this, and I am so sorry to hear you are also experiencing the painful season of waiting, hoping and praying for children. It is not easy, it's actually the hardest thing I've ever gone through, so I relate to your sentiment. I will prayerfully consider doing a video on this... and I also pray that God would bless you with children soon❤️
This is very true! It is easy to compare journeys and feel like a failure. My husband is good about reminding me that everyone's life is different, and ours is going to look way different from our parents, siblings, or a TH-camrs!
I had a hard time with sourdough as well. I tried buying the dry and that did not work, another never got very bubbly. It wasn't until recently a friend told me her church was having a class on sourdough and the teacher was giving away some of her sourdough to everyone. That was last month and I have been making all things sourdough since and loving it! 😊
It is so nice to hear about your garden adventure. We moved into our house four years ago (in January), and I have made my garden a little bigger each year. It has been a struggle though. Our land had most of the topsoil stripped because it was a mess before our house was built and underneath was a lot of hard, red clay. I've tried raised beds (which were hard to keep watered in the heat of summer here), and I realized that trying to do much of anything outdoors in late July in NC is pointless. 😆 Getting ready to gear up for another season this weekend, and I am so grateful for your thoughts and the inspiration!
Hi Elyse, it's so good to hear from you! That is so challenging with the poor soil conditions, we had that issue with the Kentucky land and also ended up doing the raised beds. We put a thick layer of mulch/woodchips on our raised beds that year and it helped keep the soil under it very moist. We didn't have a water source on our land, so we brought some jugs from home, but mostly trusted God to water for us, and I really do think the thick layer of mulch is what kept things from drying out. That being said, we were in Kentucky, not hot hot North Carolina, so that may not make much of a difference or you may have tried that. The joys of gardening haha, I'm excited for your 4th garden season here and pray that you see and feel the momentum from the past few years efforts!
Wonderful video. I enjoyed hearing your journey and love seeing all the beautiful jars filled with goodies in the background of the video! ❤ Peace and blessings!
Thank you thank you thank you for the simple reminder of “it’s ok to go the turtle route”. Sometimes I feel like we take 4 steps forward and 3 steps back but I don’t consider it’s still forward momentum, no matter how slow. And slow is just fine. Thank you friend. ❤
I just finished reading Eve in Exile by Bekah Merkle and this video is such a good companion follow up for that book! If you haven’t read it, highly suggest it.
Thanks so much Kelly (& Scott) for your content! 🙏 I am a homemaker myself but very much in the beginnings of figuring out how to create an economy, how to get things done when no one tells me to do them (after a lifetime of that being the case!), eventhough I have so many ideas & have a very supportive, providing husband, it’s such an uncommon “job”, especially as we haven’t been blessed with kids either. So thank you so much for your guidance & inspirations! My question is, how do you stay positive and patient when it comes to conceiving? It seems like you guys have tried for years, whereas we only started trying this year, however, I find myself getting really sad about not having kids yet & even feeling “unpurposeful”. If this isn’t too private to share (which I totally respect!), then I would love to hear how you do it 🙏 I am sure you would be communicating with the Lord on this manner, but even the practical things you do to support your fertility would be very interesting 😊 Lots of love from Australia 💗
You are correct that contentment is such a vital virtue for us homemakers to stay in focus for the family vision. We didn't have a lot while raising a family over three decades ago but we knew one thing - to lay a foundation of a Christian faith for our children as much as we knew how. It was hard work leading by example, but by God's grace, we have done so and are closed to the finish line of the child rearing phase. Homeschooling is expensive. We now finally are able to purchase things that we have waited for, many years ago. So grateful for His hand over us for the many life lessons we have learned. You are matured beyond your age. Praise the Lord that you are such a helper to your husband's vision! Oh, when you mentioned Titus 2, we used to have a Titus 2 women group in our former church. So much knowledge was imparted from the older women to us young moms then. God is so good! Just subscribed ❤
One of your very best videos ❤ I start a new sour dough starter after Passover using freshly milled rye . It creates a very strong starter in less then a week.
Thank you! And thank you for your helpful tip with the fresh milled rye! I've been wanting to attempt a fresh milled starter to see how it goes, and I'll use the rye I have, yay!
Yes, the quote I read at the end is from the book: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community by Wendell Berry. I think that was the only book I referenced in this video...
Thank you for your encouragement as always, you are such a joyful person to listen to. I love the name of the channel "make it make' an Amish man once told her if you can't get it to make "make it make' use what you have do what you can etc. I think that goes right along with what your talking about. I have been working many months to produce a good sourdough loaf and have finally found some techniques that really work for me and wanted to share them with you and your listeners. The Channel "Healthy with Happy" has a video on sourdough with 100% fresh milled flour that I have had great success with, she also has a starter that she says is really easy (I already had the starter going). Also I borrowed the book Bittman Bread from the library and have used his technique for sourdough with fresh milled flour. That also went really well. I have also combined different things from both resources and it turned out well. Also something that helped alot with the size loaves I was making with these techniques was a 2 quart dutch oven instead of a larger one, it really helped the rise with these smaller loaves, I think it's the heat surrounding closer maybe. A 2.5 would be better as this actually hits the lid but still turns out so nice. But as usual if you don't have that "make it make", I was using a 5 quart before I realized I had a smaller one I could try. One more thing, could you tell me if you like the electric tea kettle you were using in this video and what kind it is? Thanks so much!
Good morning! It’s a great topic today and one that has hit multiple points for me. Yesterday I was working on an organization project at home and came across a kit I purchased for making cold brew using a kit that works with a mason jar. I’m going to get that going today. We RARELY buy coffee out but I think being able to do special beverage treats especially coffee at home, encourages us to change our thinking to include having the ‘special’ at home which is beneficial on the budget. I recently read or watched a video that said rye flour is ideal for getting a quick and successful sourdough starter going. I will be setting that up today as well now that I picked up some rye flour. Apparently, you do not need to continue using rye flour for feeding and making the bread if you don’t want too. Starting seeds is both exciting and nerve wracking. I’ll be starting my seeds this week and I’m excited to see how your garden grows this year. You are a blessing and the books you mention are beautifully encouraging as are the scriptures. As a Grammy now, I love Titus 2:1-5 more than ever. 🤗
That's so exciting you have a cold brew kit and you're right it is just a fun drink to have! And that's such a good tip with the rye flour, thanks so much for sharing and I'm hoping that those wishing to start one sees your comment! Thank you Cheryl for your encouragement and I look forward to hearing about your garden season!
@homewithkelli Yes, my dad took us everywhere! We lived in Pietermaritzburg. We went back as a family and it was so different. We hiked up to Policeman's helmet rock in the Draakensburg. Are you there now?
@@randomvintagefilm273 that is amazing and so special that you guys traveled so much! Dragon Peaks is Scott's family's business and where the photo was taken! We just got back from visiting Scott's family, we were there for just a few weeks. And every time we go back, Scott is disappointed in the decline of Pietermartizburg, it's very sad!
Kelli, You just inspired me to try sourdough again. I just began milling this year and what a blessing that has been for our health! 💗 Any tips for how to make it work for two people without throwing away so much discard? We love bread, but really only consume at most a loaf and a half a week.
Ah yay, I'm so glad! My favorite thing to make with the sourdough discard is crackers. It's so easy you don't need flour, just the discard, butter or olive oil and salt! I also save the discard in a jar in the fridge and will then make pizza dough or sourdough dutch pancakes. And when I'm not using the sourdough I just keep it stored in the fridge so I don't have to feed it!
I just purchased a kitchen scale, have tried to do a sour dough starter 2x now both failed. I hoping using the scale for weight instead of a measuring cup that it will help my starter to be a good one. Also may I ask what video editing software you use to edit your videos. Thx!!
Yes, the scale definitely helps, I was without a scale the first time and it definitely helps! I hope your next try is a success! And I use imovie on my laptop, very simple and user friendly!
Please read Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. And now go back to reading the Torah which is the first 5 books of the Bible. I pray that your eye’s would be opened to understanding what this is saying. We are to walk in the ways that our Father has commanded us Saturday Sabbath, His Feast days and certainly Not eating Unclean animals! Blessings for you and your husband!
You are truly a God honoring woman. Your words drip with Godly wisdom. God is being glorified through you! Thank you so much for sharing and already encouraging me to live differently after only one day of listening to the truth you share! I now know this truly is not wishful thinking... it is God's will and He will bring blessing as we pursue this way of life. I know this now truly to be for me to seek after as well, and oh you give ao many practical tips to make it doable!! Seriously, thank you! And never stop sharing so we can continue to learn from you ❤️ God bless you and your family!!
From a 70+-year old, you are truly a very wise young woman and a great inspiration. Not only do you motivate me in my homemaking, you give me hope for the future! You are not only teaching the younger women, your message is reaching and teaching all women. You will surely be blessed as you have blessed others. :)
Thank you so much for your encouragement!!
Beautifully said….I couldn’t agree more!!!! ❤
Yes I agree!
I'm also 70+ and I get so inspired watching and listening to you. You're so real and honest. Bless you Kelli and God keep you always in the palm of His Hand.
Your comment blessed me so much, thank you for the encouragement! God bless you and your family❤️
The best SD Starter tip I received… use rye. Grind it fresh if you can. If not, buy a good quality whole grain rye flour. Starters thrive on rye.
I want this home economy.
It’s not often that that a video brings learning, inspiration, renewed spirit and peaceful joy and I just want to say thank you ❤
This is the biggest compliment! Thank you so much Denise, I hope your February has gone well!
I'm 29 with 3 boys and a husband of 10 years ❤ we recently started doing family goal planning every 6 months and our next one is coming up this weekend. God is so good, your video is so encouraging and so timely for me. "What can I do with the resources I have" and "The work you put your hands to is glorifying to the Lord" were just a couple things that stuck out to me in all that you said. Thank you for making this video. I also SUPER love the idea of writing down my journey and what works for me so I can pass it down to my own children and grandchildren. How SPECIAL. What a beautiful idea! Thank you thank you ❤
I love that you guys do a 6 month family goal meeting! And thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement, I'm so thankful it's helpful! God bless you guys, and I'm so excited for you with writing down all the things you learn!
Well, I guess I’d better comment because I, too, am 70 plus. Ha! I do love watching you and take to heart what you share about the importance of taking our roles seriously. My role of being wife, mother, grandmother, home maker and especially child of God and sister to those who are His are a truly high calling. I’m a work in progress but learn more every day and all to His glory. Thank you for all you do to help others who are on this life journey.
Thank you so much, truly your comment is a blessing and encouragement to me!
I love this! I'm a bride to be (getting married in May 💕) and I want to learn all I can about being a good wife whom my husband can depend on, specifically with home economy. Your videos are so helpful💛🧺🪺 my friend and I just finished reading through Proverbs together which is always lovely and helpful. 1 Peter 3 has been the section of the Bible I've been going back to over and over again.
Yayy, how exciting and congratulations!! and you are ahead of the game, already preparing to be a godly wife who builds her home! May God bless you both as you finish this engagement season well and I'm so excited for you to be married! And you are so right Proverbs and 1 Peter 3 are also sooo good to consistently meditate on!
This video is so inspiring. I love watching your channel so much. May God richly bless you in all of your endeavors. You are truly a woman looking well to the ways of her household. Proverbs 31
Thank you so much Brenda, you are always so encouraging! God bless you!
Love these types of videos! So encouraging and also great reminders to walk your own path inspired by others not mimicking others.
Grains in Small Places recently put out a video about starting sourdough starter from scratch with fresh milled flour. Her channel is a great resource for all things fresh milled flour.
I’ve heard that using fresh milled rye works well, and then you can switch to whatever fresh milled you want once it’s established. I’m actually going to give that a try starting tomorrow since we are finally done traveling for a bit and my rye berries arrived.
Another trick is to add some raisins to the starter until it’s stronger then take them out.
Thank you, that's helpful!!
I love your enthusiasm, it´s very contagious! Thank you for sharing and inspiring us.. God bless you :)
❤ Thank you, Kelli! You speak with so much godly boldness and wisdom - I always enjoy your videos!
Thank you, I'm so glad to hear you enjoy them!
Thank you! This is so inspiring and encouraging! ❤
Thanks for the encouragement! I started my starter about a year ago and just purchased a grain mill. I’ll
Also be starting my garden for the first time this summer. Likely in pots. But I appreciate the idea so slowly becoming who you want to be step by step skill by skill. 😅
Thank you for sharing Kelli! Finding your channel has been a tremendous blessing 💕
Coming into the country the right way❤. Love you
Good points❤. My husband makes his own coffee daily, and we take turns cooking our dinners and lunches from scratch, i make gf bagels, english muffins, gf white sandwhich bread, oat tortillas and sorghum pita bread, gf pumpkin bread, and oatmeal cookies for me. My daughter has throat birth defects and I have made her SO much from puree real food to vegan goldfish crackers, oat raspberry mini pancakes, buckwheat mini waffles, and indian toast with curry and mexican oatmeal with oatflour, 3 types of hummus with different dry beans I grind. Glory to God for me learning anything as Im a hot mess with learning new things and I still make mistakes on old recipes❤😂. We use store bought crackers and sunbutter and coconut yogurt so I am doing a balance and want us to be thankful for all types of food. Homemade or not❤❤❤
This is wonderful how much you make from scratch and that you are able to adapt it to the needs of your family, what a blessing. The sorghum pita bread sounds delicious, I have a lot of sorghum that I bought to mill and still haven't explored much with it, so I will look into the pitas!
@@homewithkelli sorghum is yum and sometimes recipes call it jowar
Modern homesteading was popular way before 2018. 😉 I discovered it in the late 90s, but didn't really purpose to implement all I could until the early 00s. I remember distinctly making a list of all the children and I could learn, make, do, etc, right where we were - in the middle of a big city. That paved the way for small town urban homesteading, and then, finally, actual (modern) homesteading in about 2015. Now the children are all grown, married, and having children of their own, but each family carries on doing their best and we all live near each other in the country. It's such a blessing to see my grandchildren gardening and helping their parents make basic things like corn tortillas from their own corn that they helped sow, tend, harvest, grind, and use. Or butter and cheese from milk they helped get from the family goats or cows. Or eat a lamb roast that came from the lamb that they watched being born, helped raised, helped take to butcher, and helped cook. Or eating eggs they gathered that day.
There are so many things I've produced at home over the years. Many I continued doing, but some I've decided to choose saving my physical energy over producing an alternative at home. One example I can think of is ziploc freezer bags. They sure come in handy when I'm harvesting the strawberries and raspberries!! At least I know how to live without them... but for now I choose to be thankful I can use such a convenience. If ever I didn't have access to a freezer, we'd just eat all the fresh berries we could, make jam for the year, dry some for winter, and sell or give the rest away.
Anyway... I love this subject. 😊😊
Blessings, Joanne in SW MO
This is so encouraging! I find the more i work outside of our household, the more I want to partake in retail therapy for stress relief.... haha. Instead, working more with my hands is more purposeful and productive. Thanks for the lovely content Kelli!
So true! And then once you start the retail therapy, it's hard to get out of it!
I really enjoyed this video, as I always do with your content Kelli!
May the Lord richly bless and protect you and Scott
✝️🙏🏻❤️✝️🙏🏻❤️
Hi Kellie ❤
This video was SUCH a blessing!!!!
I was wondering if you would prayerfully consider making a video on how you stay so joyful and God honouring while in a season of waiting for children? I know you have mentioned that you are choosing to stay private about your actual TTC journey which I completely respect, but was wondering if you could share your wisdom on how to cope month to month… it is exhausting.
Please disregard this comment if you choose to not speak on this issue!! I hope it is ok that I asked 🙏🏼xx
Hi Jacqueline! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in asking this, and I am so sorry to hear you are also experiencing the painful season of waiting, hoping and praying for children. It is not easy, it's actually the hardest thing I've ever gone through, so I relate to your sentiment. I will prayerfully consider doing a video on this... and I also pray that God would bless you with children soon❤️
@@homewithkelli Oh thank you so much Kellie ❤️
The joy of the Lord just radiates off of you. May the Lord bless you!!!!!!
Done is better than perfect❤
I say. Something is better than nothing❤❤❤
So good!
This is very true! It is easy to compare journeys and feel like a failure. My husband is good about reminding me that everyone's life is different, and ours is going to look way different from our parents, siblings, or a TH-camrs!
I’d love a video on soil blocker.
I have many more to do, so I can definitely do that! Thank you for asking!
I was going to say growing food and such may be a ministry one day. We live in crazy times.
I had a hard time with sourdough as well. I tried buying the dry and that did not work, another never got very bubbly. It wasn't until recently a friend told me her church was having a class on sourdough and the teacher was giving away some of her sourdough to everyone. That was last month and I have been making all things sourdough since and loving it! 😊
Yayy!! What a blessing, that's the way to do it! And bless her for sharing!
It is so nice to hear about your garden adventure. We moved into our house four years ago (in January), and I have made my garden a little bigger each year. It has been a struggle though. Our land had most of the topsoil stripped because it was a mess before our house was built and underneath was a lot of hard, red clay. I've tried raised beds (which were hard to keep watered in the heat of summer here), and I realized that trying to do much of anything outdoors in late July in NC is pointless. 😆 Getting ready to gear up for another season this weekend, and I am so grateful for your thoughts and the inspiration!
Hi Elyse, it's so good to hear from you!
That is so challenging with the poor soil conditions, we had that issue with the Kentucky land and also ended up doing the raised beds. We put a thick layer of mulch/woodchips on our raised beds that year and it helped keep the soil under it very moist. We didn't have a water source on our land, so we brought some jugs from home, but mostly trusted God to water for us, and I really do think the thick layer of mulch is what kept things from drying out. That being said, we were in Kentucky, not hot hot North Carolina, so that may not make much of a difference or you may have tried that.
The joys of gardening haha, I'm excited for your 4th garden season here and pray that you see and feel the momentum from the past few years efforts!
Very inspiring. I am becoming a better homemaker thanks to your wisdom.
Wonderful video. I enjoyed hearing your journey and love seeing all the beautiful jars filled with goodies in the background of the video! ❤
Peace and blessings!
Thank you thank you thank you for the simple reminder of “it’s ok to go the turtle route”. Sometimes I feel like we take 4 steps forward and 3 steps back but I don’t consider it’s still forward momentum, no matter how slow. And slow is just fine. Thank you friend. ❤
haha yes, so relatable!!
I just finished reading Eve in Exile by Bekah Merkle and this video is such a good companion follow up for that book! If you haven’t read it, highly suggest it.
Thanks so much Kelly (& Scott) for your content! 🙏
I am a homemaker myself but very much in the beginnings of figuring out how to create an economy, how to get things done when no one tells me to do them (after a lifetime of that being the case!), eventhough I have so many ideas & have a very supportive, providing husband, it’s such an uncommon “job”, especially as we haven’t been blessed with kids either. So thank you so much for your guidance & inspirations!
My question is, how do you stay positive and patient when it comes to conceiving? It seems like you guys have tried for years, whereas we only started trying this year, however, I find myself getting really sad about not having kids yet & even feeling “unpurposeful”. If this isn’t too private to share (which I totally respect!), then I would love to hear how you do it 🙏 I am sure you would be communicating with the Lord on this manner, but even the practical things you do to support your fertility would be very interesting 😊
Lots of love from Australia 💗
Hey! Great video! Any chance you have the recipe for your cold brew somewhere? Ive been looking for a good one❤
So excited! ❤ I just got my Rooibos tea 🍵 gonna make some while I watch ❤️😊❤️
You are correct that contentment is such a vital virtue for us homemakers to stay in focus for the family vision. We didn't have a lot while raising a family over three decades ago but we knew one thing - to lay a foundation of a Christian faith for our children as much as we knew how. It was hard work leading by example, but by God's grace, we have done so and are closed to the finish line of the child rearing phase. Homeschooling is expensive. We now finally are able to purchase things that we have waited for, many years ago. So grateful for His hand over us for the many life lessons we have learned. You are matured beyond your age. Praise the Lord that you are such a helper to your husband's vision! Oh, when you mentioned Titus 2, we used to have a Titus 2 women group in our former church. So much knowledge was imparted from the older women to us young moms then. God is so good! Just subscribed ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony with this and how faithful God has been! It is so encouraging, God bless you and your family!
One of your very best videos ❤
I start a new sour dough starter after Passover using freshly milled rye . It creates a very strong starter in less then a week.
Thank you! And thank you for your helpful tip with the fresh milled rye! I've been wanting to attempt a fresh milled starter to see how it goes, and I'll use the rye I have, yay!
What are the book references? Please
Yes, the quote I read at the end is from the book: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community by Wendell Berry. I think that was the only book I referenced in this video...
Amen! This is so great, thank you for the encouragement! Titus 2 is also dear to me!❤️
I'm so glad to hear this!!
Thank you for your encouragement as always, you are such a joyful person to listen to. I love the name of the channel "make it make' an Amish man once told her if you can't get it to make "make it make' use what you have do what you can etc. I think that goes right along with what your talking about. I have been working many months to produce a good sourdough loaf and have finally found some techniques that really work for me and wanted to share them with you and your listeners. The Channel "Healthy with Happy" has a video on sourdough with 100% fresh milled flour that I have had great success with, she also has a starter that she says is really easy (I already had the starter going). Also I borrowed the book Bittman Bread from the library and have used his technique for sourdough with fresh milled flour. That also went really well. I have also combined different things from both resources and it turned out well. Also something that helped alot with the size loaves I was making with these techniques was a 2 quart dutch oven instead of a larger one, it really helped the rise with these smaller loaves, I think it's the heat surrounding closer maybe. A 2.5 would be better as this actually hits the lid but still turns out so nice. But as usual if you don't have that "make it make", I was using a 5 quart before I realized I had a smaller one I could try. One more thing, could you tell me if you like the electric tea kettle you were using in this video and what kind it is? Thanks so much!
That's a wonderful and encouraging phrase as well! Thank you so much for sharing this helpful info!!
Good morning! It’s a great topic today and one that has hit multiple points for me. Yesterday I was working on an organization project at home and came across a kit I purchased for making cold brew using a kit that works with a mason jar. I’m going to get that going today. We RARELY buy coffee out but I think being able to do special beverage treats especially coffee at home, encourages us to change our thinking to include having the ‘special’ at home which is beneficial on the budget.
I recently read or watched a video that said rye flour is ideal for getting a quick and successful sourdough starter going. I will be setting that up today as well now that I picked up some rye flour. Apparently, you do not need to continue using rye flour for feeding and making the bread if you don’t want too.
Starting seeds is both exciting and nerve wracking. I’ll be starting my seeds this week and I’m excited to see how your garden grows this year. You are a blessing and the books you mention are beautifully encouraging as are the scriptures. As a Grammy now, I love Titus 2:1-5 more than ever. 🤗
That's so exciting you have a cold brew kit and you're right it is just a fun drink to have! And that's such a good tip with the rye flour, thanks so much for sharing and I'm hoping that those wishing to start one sees your comment! Thank you Cheryl for your encouragement and I look forward to hearing about your garden season!
The background pic looks like the Draakensburg. I was raised in South Africa and I sure miss it!
That's amazing, it is from the Drakensberg! Did you ever happen to visit Dragon Peaks?
@homewithkelli Yes, my dad took us everywhere! We lived in Pietermaritzburg. We went back as a family and it was so different. We hiked up to Policeman's helmet rock in the Draakensburg. Are you there now?
@@randomvintagefilm273 that is amazing and so special that you guys traveled so much! Dragon Peaks is Scott's family's business and where the photo was taken! We just got back from visiting Scott's family, we were there for just a few weeks. And every time we go back, Scott is disappointed in the decline of Pietermartizburg, it's very sad!
Kelli, You just inspired me to try sourdough again. I just began milling this year and what a blessing that has been for our health! 💗 Any tips for how to make it work for two people without throwing away so much discard? We love bread, but really only consume at most a loaf and a half a week.
Ah yay, I'm so glad! My favorite thing to make with the sourdough discard is crackers. It's so easy you don't need flour, just the discard, butter or olive oil and salt! I also save the discard in a jar in the fridge and will then make pizza dough or sourdough dutch pancakes. And when I'm not using the sourdough I just keep it stored in the fridge so I don't have to feed it!
@@homewithkelli Thank you so much! Excited about trying it again. 😊💕
This is going to be such a silly comment but you remind me a princess from children’s book “Princess story” by Max Lucado 😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️
I'll have to look this up ☺️
I just purchased a kitchen scale, have tried to do a sour dough starter 2x now both failed. I hoping using the scale for weight instead of a measuring cup that it will help my starter to be a good one. Also may I ask what video editing software you use to edit your videos. Thx!!
Yes, the scale definitely helps, I was without a scale the first time and it definitely helps! I hope your next try is a success! And I use imovie on my laptop, very simple and user friendly!
@@homewithkelli thank you so much dear friend!
Please read Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. And now go back to reading the Torah which is the first 5 books of the Bible. I pray that your eye’s would be opened to understanding what this is saying. We are to walk in the ways that our Father has commanded us Saturday Sabbath, His Feast days and certainly Not eating Unclean animals! Blessings for you and your husband!