Although my kids are now grown and gone, I continue to love being a full-time homemaker. After my kids left home, I heard from many people, "Are you going to get a job now?" Here's the thing....I HAVE a job. I am a homemaker, and I love it!
Your decision to be at home for your daughter is admirable and honorable. ❣ I was in the women's lib generation where women were encouraged to find themselves and leave the home. ( Even though a woman who chose to stay home was looked down upon). I loved raising my children and caring for my home. I never got caught up in the hype. People said we couldn't do it on one income, as we lived in CA. I always said and still say, it depends on what your priorities are. Our outings for a family of 6, were hiking with packed snacks. We didn't have fancy name brand anything. We shopped second hand (still do at 62 and empty nest 😊) I cooked from scratch. I look back and the most beautiful memories I have are my children and things we did together or conversations we had, a lot of which I would not of experienced if I was away 9-10 hour a day. This was an inspiring video.. thank you! Your daughter is blessed!🥰 This is just my experience and mine only. Everyone has to do what they have to do for their situation. Yet, if a mom could stay home, it is the most fulfilling journey. You are not only there for your most precious beings but you find yourself. ❣
I love everything you said! Thank you so much for sharing your story with me as well. I can relate to every bit of it. I agree, It really does depend on our priorities and our mindsets. Sometimes we may go without the fancy stuff but the time we invest has an incredible impact as you know. Those conversations you had and memories of the time with your children, are such beautiful treasures. I hope to encourage others to always see the value and beauty in it. ❤️🌸🌺
Im a pregnant wife, mom to a toddler and ive decided to leave my husband due to his dangerous addictions, this was uplifting to hear as i prepare for a new season. My name isnt on the home that my husband bought, and i signed a prenup so im leaving everything except what fits in my suv haha. Im BLESSED. My goal is to stay a homemaker and keep my children in my care 100% of the time, while saving up for a homestead yay❤️
Darling Roxanna I’m working through your beautiful vlogs backwards and you just answered all my questions. I’m glad you did that and I loved you immediately on watching but now I respect your choices and values so much more. I am 58 and had a big career and 2 gorgeous boys (now men) and now care for my father and have more time but not endless gaps by any means - but the difference is my time is filled with meaning and purpose. You are an inspiration to me and I hope your channel grows and inspires many many more 🥰
Hello Helen. Thank you so much for your sweet comment and for taking the time to write it. Your words really mean a lot to me. That is wonderful you have this time to spend with your father and loved ones. Our time is our most valuable thing we have to give. I hope you have a blessed week and thank you again ❤️
Hi Roxanna! I know this video was posted 3 months ago, but I'm new to your channel and love finding you already!! You have a lot of great advice. I also love Dave Ramsey. I find that your videos are great for end of day calming. Thank you for doing what you do!! 😊💜
Hi Linda! Thank you so much for your comment that means a lot to me. It’s great to hear from you! And a BIG welcome to you as well! Yes to Dave Ramsey!! He certainly straightened me out lol. I hope you enjoy your evening 🌸💕
He is so frank! At first, it was like hearing the harsh truth, but when you realize just how much value there is to that way of thinking and applying those principles to your life. It changes your whole way of thinking about money. Thank you for watching and commenting!
I really enjoyed this. I needed to hear something like this for my life. Iam a stay at home mom of 4 boys and I have been through a hard season in my life being a mom. I thank GOD for sharing this conversation with us. Thank you.
I am so glad it helped you!! You certainly have your hands full with 4 boys! I hope your hard season comes to an end soon. Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment 😃❤️
Just found you and backtracked a couple of years to this video which I found immensely helpful even though I am at a different life stage. After working enormously hard all my life to raise my beautiful child on my own - now a fine young man with his own career, life and home, I find myself at retirement age with limited funds. Nonetheless I want to retire and have time for me now before it is too late. I have many interests and hobbies and love being a homemaker still - even if it is just for me and my visitors. Thank you.
@@Kay-ph1kb hello and welcome! I am so glad you found me. Thank you for sharing your story. I think that sounds like a wonderful plan. I do also think homemaking is a life long love and it matters just as much to us as it does our children. I hope you enjoy making yourself a priority heading into retirement.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart. I think you have the heart of a teacher. God is leading me in the same way in my home and I find your channel so encouraging! I’ll be praying for you and thank you again😊
Superb Video! Great advice on how to live and do it wisely:) Your right, me and my husband will notice how people seem to have to be on the go constantly. We enjoy being at home more than ever and we have wonderful experiences such as sitting around a fire pit and having great conversation. Going out to eat is very expensive and I prepare meals that are good for us and budgeting is essential in life and having a different perspective on how we view what we want verses what we need. You brought up some very important points and living each day and taking it a day at a time is good too. Thanks for the video! It was very good😄
A reoccurring thought in my head as I watched your videos, why does she only set the table for two? I so appreciate you sharing your story this morning. Also I am more impressed with your videos now too!
Hi Lisa! It’s great to hear from you. You know it didn’t even occur to me that anyone might notice that! I was hesitant to share but I think just being transparent suites my personality. Thank you so much for watching!
This was so sweet to hear, what a beautiful story, thank you so much for sharing. I have God but hearing other single women share their testimony motivates me so much as well 💕💐
Hello Maggie! And thank you so much for watching it. I really do appreciate your comments. Happy homemaking to you! I hope you have a wonderful Sunday ❤️🌺🌼
I am a relatively new subscriber and didn't know your backstory. Thank you for taking the time to share. I was a sahm for 6 years years and I loved every minute of it. I am now an empty nester and looking forward to early retirement soon and will hopefully be helping taking care of grandbabies!! VERY excited about this!
Hi and welcome!! Congratulations on an early retirement! What a wonderful way to spend your time! I hope you enjoy every minute of your time with them. That is so special ❤️
Hi Roxanna. I am new to your channel. Thank you for your lovely videos. It brings me joy to watch your home making and simple life. I have been on this journey to find myself and have a simple and joyful life. I am in my 60s and decided to cut my working hours so that I can focus on my homemaking and looking after my ill husband. It has helped me a lot to work half day only, my health has improved, by not being stressed and rushed every day. Sending Love across the miles from South Africa.
Hello Ivana! South Africa! That’s amazing. Welcome to my channel! That’s wonderful your health has improved and I hope the same for your husband. I hope you continue with your journey and find a peaceful lifestyle that brings you joy! I appreciate you commenting and sharing your story with me. Thank you so much for watching! ❤️
So happy to found you and your chanel...I am really enjoying in your videos..I am so so sad that I did not stay at home whith my son..so sad. I wanted, but bescause of everyone around me I did not. I worked and still am working full time..reflecting on my life now, I regret that I was not brave enough to do that. Do I have more things now? Maybe...but just maybe. Am I happy? No. It is a long coment, but I sad this thing out loud for the first time in my life. Just to confirm your message in this video...❤
Hi Marina! Thank you for sharing your story with me. I totally understand that. But you know, this life ain’t always easy and choices aren’t always available to us when we want them to be. I think there’s a lot to be proud of providing for your son. You know I have friends that tell me the same thing and now they are grandparents that are able to spend that time with their grandchildren. Perhaps that will be your story as well. 😃❤️
I really appreciate this video! Please, can we be best friends?!😂 This video has been a huge encouragement to me as a full-time homemaker. My girls are 11 & 15 so I can relate to you on so many levels - especially Dave Ramsey whom I'm currently following as well. Thank you so much for taking the time to share a part of your world. It's been a joy and huge encouragement to watch.
Hello Mercedes! Awe that’s so sweet. I love reading that the videos encourage you in your homemaking. It’s such important work and I just want to encourage woman everywhere to always remember that because I know some days are harder than others and often times we don’t get the praise we deserve! Yes to Dave! He has been so helpful to me and really changed my whole perspective on money. Sometimes I can’t believe how careless I once was with it. 🤦🏽♀️Thank you for your wonderful comment as it does encourage me as well. Have a beautiful Sunday with your girls. 🌺❤️
@@maureenhalas2485 well hello again! Thank you so much for your sweet comment. I am really so glad you both have found and enjoy the channel. Thank you so much for watching and letting me know your here. Have a beautiful Sunday 🌺❤️
It is?? Wow! That’s amazing to read! I wasn’t sure if anyone would bother watching a talking style let alone enjoy it the most. That’s encouraging. I appreciate it so much. 🌺🌹😃
Hi Melissa! Thank you! And on the lip colors, I love to use the Maybelliene Superstay line both the ink crayon and the matte ink tubes. They are awesome! I have a red that’s called Exhilarator that’s like a bright red and an ink crayon that’s sort of a mauve pink called Stay Exceptional. In this video I am wearing a burts bees lip stain that I don’t know the name of cause it’s worn off. But it’s like a cherry color.
I am newly retired and love being at home. I am a quilter and love to sew as a way to give gifts. I have been doing great at simplifying these last 5 years to prepare for retirement and have been doing well-except when it comes to my sewing supplies and fabric! It’s really its own subject that I rarely hear anything about in the crafting world. So I am looking forward to hearing some basic principles that will help me be more mindful and use what I have. Being a single Mom for27 years left me little savings but I know I will be OK if I keep on the simplifying track. I love the coffee conversations and would welcome more!
Although my kids are now grown and gone, I continue to love being a full-time homemaker. After my kids left home, I heard from many people, "Are you going to get a job now?" Here's the thing....I HAVE a job. I am a homemaker, and I love it!
YESSS!! For sure!! ❤️❤️🙌🙌
Omg! You are speaking truth and what I know in my heart, is a woman's role in life. That is why you find joy in it. Because it's God's plan. 😊
Amen to that! Nothing has made me feel more fulfilled and given me more joy in my life. His design is perfect 🙏❤️. Thank you for watching!! 💕
Just because that’s your purpose doesn’t mean that is every woman’s purpose 🙄
Your decision to be at home for your daughter is admirable and honorable. ❣
I was in the women's lib generation where women were encouraged to find themselves and leave the home. ( Even though a woman who chose to stay home was looked down upon). I loved raising my children and caring for my home. I never got caught up in the hype. People said we couldn't do it on one income, as we lived in CA. I always said and still say, it depends on what your priorities are. Our outings for a family of 6, were hiking with packed snacks. We didn't have fancy name brand anything. We shopped second hand (still do at 62 and empty nest 😊) I cooked from scratch. I look back and the most beautiful memories I have are my children and things we did together or conversations we had, a lot of which I would not of experienced if I was away 9-10 hour a day.
This was an inspiring video.. thank you! Your daughter is blessed!🥰
This is just my experience and mine only. Everyone has to do what they have to do for their situation. Yet, if a mom could stay home, it is the most fulfilling journey. You are not only there for your most precious beings but you find yourself. ❣
I love everything you said! Thank you so much for sharing your story with me as well. I can relate to every bit of it. I agree, It really does depend on our priorities and our mindsets. Sometimes we may go without the fancy stuff but the time we invest has an incredible impact as you know. Those conversations you had and memories of the time with your children, are such beautiful treasures. I hope to encourage others to always see the value and beauty in it. ❤️🌸🌺
@@aquaintlife you do 🥰
Im a pregnant wife, mom to a toddler and ive decided to leave my husband due to his dangerous addictions, this was uplifting to hear as i prepare for a new season. My name isnt on the home that my husband bought, and i signed a prenup so im leaving everything except what fits in my suv haha. Im BLESSED. My goal is to stay a homemaker and keep my children in my care 100% of the time, while saving up for a homestead yay❤️
just saw your post. hope you and your children are doing well. ❤
My God, you are so strong and brave. I don't know you, but I admire you so much. Hope you are doing well. ❤️
Darling Roxanna
I’m working through your beautiful vlogs backwards and you just answered all my questions.
I’m glad you did that and I loved you immediately on watching but now I respect your choices and values so much more.
I am 58 and had a big career and 2 gorgeous boys (now men) and now care for my father and have more time but not endless gaps by any means - but the difference is my time is filled with meaning and purpose.
You are an inspiration to me and I hope your channel grows and inspires many many more 🥰
Hello Helen. Thank you so much for your sweet comment and for taking the time to write it. Your words really mean a lot to me. That is wonderful you have this time to spend with your father and loved ones. Our time is our most valuable thing we have to give. I hope you have a blessed week and thank you again ❤️
Hi Roxanna! I know this video was posted 3 months ago, but I'm new to your channel and love finding you already!! You have a lot of great advice. I also love Dave Ramsey. I find that your videos are great for end of day calming. Thank you for doing what you do!! 😊💜
Hi Linda! Thank you so much for your comment that means a lot to me. It’s great to hear from you! And a BIG welcome to you as well! Yes to Dave Ramsey!! He certainly straightened me out lol. I hope you enjoy your evening 🌸💕
Thank you for sharing your story.
I to love Dave Ramsey and his frank to the point kind of approach.
He is so frank! At first, it was like hearing the harsh truth, but when you realize just how much value there is to that way of thinking and applying those principles to your life. It changes your whole way of thinking about money. Thank you for watching and commenting!
You are doing a beautiful job and heart is in the right place! May God bless you and your daughter! ❤
Thank you Carla! I appreciate your kind words. 💕
I appreciate you sharing your story and agree with all you said.
Thank you so much for watching 😊💕
I really enjoyed this. I needed to hear something like this for my life. Iam a stay at home mom of 4 boys and I have been through a hard season in my life being a mom. I thank GOD for sharing this conversation with us. Thank you.
I am so glad it helped you!! You certainly have your hands full with 4 boys! I hope your hard season comes to an end soon. Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment 😃❤️
@@aquaintlife Thank you.
Just found you and backtracked a couple of years to this video which I found immensely helpful even though I am at a different life stage. After working enormously hard all my life to raise my beautiful child on my own - now a fine young man with his own career, life and home, I find myself at retirement age with limited funds. Nonetheless I want to retire and have time for me now before it is too late. I have many interests and hobbies and love being a homemaker still - even if it is just for me and my visitors. Thank you.
@@Kay-ph1kb hello and welcome! I am so glad you found me. Thank you for sharing your story. I think that sounds like a wonderful plan. I do also think homemaking is a life long love and it matters just as much to us as it does our children. I hope you enjoy making yourself a priority heading into retirement.
@@aquaintlife Thank you ♥
Beautiful video Roxanna love everything your videos are so inspiring always thank you, God bless 🙌 🙏 ❤ 😊😊😊
Thank you so much for sharing your heart. I think you have the heart of a teacher. God is leading me in the same way in my home and I find your channel so encouraging! I’ll be praying for you and thank you again😊
Oh, thank you so much! You're so kind and I am so happy for you. Sending love and best wishes to you ❤️
Superb Video! Great advice on how to live and do it wisely:) Your right, me and my husband will notice how people seem to have to be on the go constantly. We enjoy being at home more than ever and we have wonderful experiences such as sitting around a fire pit and having great conversation. Going out to eat is very expensive and I prepare meals that are good for us and budgeting is essential in life and having a different perspective on how we view what we want verses what we need. You brought up some very important points and living each day and taking it a day at a time is good too. Thanks for the video! It was very good😄
I love this! I am so impressed with the way you have created your life grounded in such honorable values. You are one of the strongest women I know ❤️
Cassie you are so sweet and I feel very much the same about you. I think we can recognize and appreciate strength in each other. ❤️❤️❤️
A reoccurring thought in my head as I watched your videos, why does she only set the table for two? I so appreciate you sharing your story this morning. Also I am more impressed with your videos now too!
Hi Lisa! It’s great to hear from you. You know it didn’t even occur to me that anyone might notice that! I was hesitant to share but I think just being transparent suites my personality. Thank you so much for watching!
Loved knowing about you and your life. Keep up the good work.
Hi Linda! Thank you so much! I appreciate that 😃
Wonderful getting to know you more 😊
This was so sweet to hear, what a beautiful story, thank you so much for sharing. I have God but hearing other single women share their testimony motivates me so much as well 💕💐
Thank you for watching! I am glad it resonated with you and I wish you the very best of luck with everything ❤️🙏
Thank you for this very personal video. Really inspiring for a Belgian homemaker! Maggie 🍀🌻🍀
Hello Maggie! And thank you so much for watching it. I really do appreciate your comments. Happy homemaking to you! I hope you have a wonderful Sunday ❤️🌺🌼
I am a relatively new subscriber and didn't know your backstory. Thank you for taking the time to share. I was a sahm for 6 years years and I loved every minute of it. I am now an empty nester and looking forward to early retirement soon and will hopefully be helping taking care of grandbabies!! VERY excited about this!
Hi and welcome!! Congratulations on an early retirement! What a wonderful way to spend your time! I hope you enjoy every minute of your time with them. That is so special ❤️
Hi Roxanna. I am new to your channel. Thank you for your lovely videos. It brings me joy to watch your home making and simple life. I have been on this journey to find myself and have a simple and joyful life. I am in my 60s and decided to cut my working hours so that I can focus on my homemaking and looking after my ill husband. It has helped me a lot to work half day only, my health has improved, by not being stressed and rushed every day.
Sending Love across the miles from South Africa.
Hello Ivana! South Africa! That’s amazing. Welcome to my channel! That’s wonderful your health has improved and I hope the same for your husband. I hope you continue with your journey and find a peaceful lifestyle that brings you joy! I appreciate you commenting and sharing your story with me. Thank you so much for watching! ❤️
Thankyou for your wise words..God bless you and your daughter...
So nice of you. God bless you as well and thank you for watching :)
Thank you for sharing about your life, I really appreciate your content and this was really enjoyable to “get to know you “better
Hi there Christa! Well thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed it and the content here. I appreciate the feedback so much! 😃❤️
So happy to found you and your chanel...I am really enjoying in your videos..I am so so sad that I did not stay at home whith my son..so sad. I wanted, but bescause of everyone around me I did not. I worked and still am working full time..reflecting on my life now, I regret that I was not brave enough to do that. Do I have more things now? Maybe...but just maybe. Am I happy? No. It is a long coment, but I sad this thing out loud for the first time in my life. Just to confirm your message in this video...❤
Hi Marina! Thank you for sharing your story with me. I totally understand that. But you know, this life ain’t always easy and choices aren’t always available to us when we want them to be. I think there’s a lot to be proud of providing for your son. You know I have friends that tell me the same thing and now they are grandparents that are able to spend that time with their grandchildren. Perhaps that will be your story as well. 😃❤️
Absolutely loved this video ! Thank you so much ! Its reinforcing the changes ive been thinking of or working towards in my life.
@@daisyrowaro44 oh I am so glad! I hope it helps ❤️
I really appreciate this video! Please, can we be best friends?!😂 This video has been a huge encouragement to me as a full-time homemaker. My girls are 11 & 15 so I can relate to you on so many levels - especially Dave Ramsey whom I'm currently following as well. Thank you so much for taking the time to share a part of your world. It's been a joy and huge encouragement to watch.
Hello Mercedes! Awe that’s so sweet. I love reading that the videos encourage you in your homemaking. It’s such important work and I just want to encourage woman everywhere to always remember that because I know some days are harder than others and often times we don’t get the praise we deserve! Yes to Dave! He has been so helpful to me and really changed my whole perspective on money. Sometimes I can’t believe how careless I once was with it. 🤦🏽♀️Thank you for your wonderful comment as it does encourage me as well. Have a beautiful Sunday with your girls. 🌺❤️
Amen!❤
Beautiful video Roxanna!! ❤️🙏
Roxanna, I’m Anita’s sister in Fl. You are an inspiration and blessing!🙏🏻❤️
Hello Miss Anita. I hope your doing fantastic today. Thank you for watching ❤️🌺
@@maureenhalas2485 well hello again! Thank you so much for your sweet comment. I am really so glad you both have found and enjoy the channel. Thank you so much for watching and letting me know your here. Have a beautiful Sunday 🌺❤️
This is my favorite video to date!🥰
It is?? Wow! That’s amazing to read! I wasn’t sure if anyone would bother watching a talking style let alone enjoy it the most. That’s encouraging. I appreciate it so much. 🌺🌹😃
Coffee chats are right up my alley! I feel like we really get to know you.. it’s wonderful ☕️🥰
@@IdaMaySmith yes that totally makes sense! More to come for sure 😃🙌❤️
I loved this video! ok This is random, but I was wondering about the lip colors that you wear in the videos.
Hi Melissa! Thank you! And on the lip colors, I love to use the Maybelliene Superstay line both the ink crayon and the matte ink tubes. They are awesome! I have a red that’s called Exhilarator that’s like a bright red and an ink crayon that’s sort of a mauve pink called Stay Exceptional. In this video I am wearing a burts bees lip stain that I don’t know the name of cause it’s worn off. But it’s like a cherry color.
Thank you, I will check those out!
I am newly retired and love being at home. I am a quilter and love to sew as a way to give gifts. I have been doing great at simplifying these last 5 years to prepare for retirement and have been doing well-except when it comes to my sewing supplies and fabric! It’s really its own subject that I rarely hear anything about in the crafting world. So I am looking forward to hearing some basic principles that will help me be more mindful and use what I have. Being a single Mom for27 years left me little savings but I know I will be OK if I keep on the simplifying track. I love the coffee conversations and would welcome more!