Learning to Tend the Home Fires with The Homemaker’s Mentor

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Learning to Tend the Home Fires with The Homemaker’s Mentor was part of a blog tour with Bow of Bronze Launch Teams. All opinions are my own.

Years ago, the focus of many a young girl’s education was upon how to manage a home. 

In the past few decades, that has shifted dramatically so that many a young woman finds herself seeking guidance in how to tend the home fires. 

While I had some instruction from my mother and feel like I was doing an okay job at things here, I still found myself excited to review The Homemaker’s Mentor.

What’s Included in The Homemaker’s Mentor?

The Homemaker’s Mentor features a multitude of material applicable to running your household as well as bring beauty and fun to home life. 

Martha Greene and Rebekah Wilson worked together for many years drawing from their own experience as wives and mothers to minister to others through a member-only website. 

This ministry helped thousands of readers bring “peace, order, and delight to their homes.”

As you can see in the image below, there is a real breadth of material. 

Some files are focused upon the organizational aspects of tending the home fires while others are all about feeding your family. 

There are also seasonal files and some that are very tutorial in nature. 

You could spend a lot of time working your way through everything to glean inspiration for your own home.

How I Have Been Using This Resource

There are two areas that really ‘sang’ to me for these resources:  organization and food! 

I feel like I have a lot of room left to get better control of the chaos in my home.

And, with four hungry boys, there is never a day when I couldn’t use some inspiration for what to make.

For these 2 ‘projects’, I have separate posts. 

Just click on the images to read the posts. 

Results from Making Their Shortbread Cookies

I also had fun making homemade shortbread cookies. 

Hubby loved them with all the butter while the boys longed for a bit more sugar. 

I neglected to do the ‘wash’ for an extra sprinkling of sugar with this first batch and had some issues with the cookie-cutter usage. 

However, they are so simple to make (3 ingredients… flour, powdered sugar, and butter) that I know we’ll be trying again soon.

To appease my sugar lovin’ boys, I did let them try spreading a bit of Nutella on the cookies like icing.

  The Nutella gave an extra bit of sweetness but did not overpower it.

I can see myself going back to these files many times in the future. 

I really want to do a deep clean of the kitchen as described in Kitchen Sparkle. 

And, there is the BIG ebook (almost 300 pages) titled Treasury of Homekeeping Skills that I am really looking forward to reading during the long Alaskan winter days and nights.

Do you find tending the home fires to be a challenge?
What have you found to help you become better at living your vocation as a wife and/or mother?