Practical Homemaker Ideas: 3 Tips to Grow Your Homemaking Skills
- Ashley Qurollo
- Oct 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 7
October 6, 2025
Well, this doesn’t happen often, but today I sit here at my computer on Monday afternoon with a blank Word document when I should be uploading a polished post for you. Please accept my apologies for a quickly written post, but I hope that it will still bless your heart.
We are actually on a break week for school right now, and my kids and I are loving it! If you haven’t ever considered a Sabbath schedule for school, it’s amazing and worth considering. While the kids were outside playing this morning, I had the time to declutter, put things away, and give my home some much needed care and love. I’m really looking forward to a whole week of investing into my home.
For many of us, we were taught the basics of home-keeping (vacuum the floor, scrub the toilet, cook a simple supper, etc.), but running an efficient and orderly home takes more know-how than just knowledge of stand-alone tasks such as the ones I mentioned. As homemakers, we have to understand our homes as living organisms—like organic machines—that need constant tending and upkeep, and we have to understand how our homes work with all of the moving parts, not just isolated tasks.
I’m closer to 40 than I care to admit, and sometimes I feel a bit ashamed that I am still learning how to care for my home and be a capable homemaker. But I’m learning that self-pity gets me nowhere, and I’m learning to be grateful for all the lessons that I’m learning, whether through others, the school of hard-knocks, or someone’s helpful suggestions.
Today, I want to share a few simple thoughts on homemaking that I’m learning and that I hope will help you in this imperfect journey of homemaking.
Quit striving for perfection
It’s so tempting to vainly run towards that elusive goal of the house being perfectly put together—like what we see on social media—but I’ve finally learned to give up that pipe dream. I don’t mean throw in the towel and quit caring about my home, but I mean to relax and enjoy my home as its being lived in day by day. Every day I work hard on my home, and that’s all that I can do. I take comfort in that knowledge.
Take care of matters right away
This is a hard one for me personally! I have mentioned this truth of “deal with it now” on my blog, but it’s a continual battle for me. I’m so tempted to leave little piles all over my house (and still do), but I am trying to retrain myself to deal immediately with tasks. For example, last week I put away my new contact lenses in my bathroom the day I got them. Instead of letting my shipment from Vitacost (I love their gluten free flours) sit in my kitchen another day, I unloaded the box. I finally put away the new family photo books in everyone’s memory box. I’m finding that when I don’t deal with things now, the responsibilities keep piling up, and then I have even more to deal with.
A beautiful post as usual :) I think we are very much alike in our goals of wanting our homes to be happy and cozy as much as possible, while realizing that we are imperfect and doing our best. It is always a joy to read your latest musings. God bless you!
Your flowers are so lovely, as always! Thanks for the encouragement to keep making progress in our homemaking. I think it's so exciting that we get to keep learning and growing no matter how old we get - surely that is part of eternity being set in our hearts.