so true! Life happens!! Id rather spend time in the garden or playing with the kiddo but it sure is nice to wake up to a clean kitchen! Wish I could say it was a habit.... but trying and thats what matters! ha

I love the copper home decor for that french country style, now I am going on etsy for copper pans and copper planters !

I can identify with this comment.🙌🏻

Plus, when you go to bed, you are "good" tired.

This comment is so cute❤ made me so happy reading it. Thank you.

My mother is the same way! I joke that she wakes up with her pants on, lol-she’s just READY to go in the morning, can zip through her kitchen chores and often had done more in the hours she’d been up than we kids got done all day 🙈 Don’t ask anything after about 6:30pm though: when the rest of us were getting our 2nd wind, she’ll be passed out on the sofa, lol! So I guess it’s really just about striking when your energy is hot! 💪🏻🙌🏻

Same here and it’s ok 👍 just relax at night and work in the morning

Not pain but utter exhaustion is my foe I’m just d.u.n. done after dinners mostly cleaned up The rest can wait till morning

I highly recommend getting a drafting chair for the kitchen. They go taller than most stools and often have a foot rest. I sit when doing the dishes by hand or when I'm cooking but too fatigued ry keep standing.

@@beccam9854 Chairs, tall or otherwise don't fit well at sinks. No place for knees. I end up sitting side ways and twisting to reach the sink.

lol, that’s cute

Hello Camp

I was just going to ask what you did with your space there. We went dishwasherless about 2-3 years ago and I wanted bookshelves BUT the handwashing of the dishes splashes all over and I feel like the books would get so wet.

I don't always use my dish washer but when family comesi it is so nice to have !! Handwashing ok but a dishwasher sanitizes the dishes so nice to do that !! Especially if someone has a cold in the family. Or forbid Covid !!

I have a non working dishwasher in my kitchen and I have been wanting to make it into a cabinet large enough to fit my pressure canner!

I used to do meal prep one on one classes one people’s homes. And omg, a dirty kitchen was more often than I expected. Crumbs all over, food stuck on stove. Yuck

@@divine34j I understand what you’re saying but it’s a disservice for your kids to grow up accustomed to living in those dirty conditions. Discipline over motivation. I’m a mother of 5, carrying my youngest now and at a young age kids already see the beauty in caring and nurturing their environment.

Dawn Yockey, I cleaned homes for a living as well. Not easy work! If only people realized how leaving food out on dishes overnight can bring in extra tenants like bugs, it might motivate them to clean up a little better before bedtime. Just washing a few dishes, and sweeping a kitchen floor at night helps and can make all the difference . You can do the deeper cleaning later.

@@divine34j You just do what you can in your season. If it's good enough for your family, that's all that matters. You don't have to justify anything to strangers on the internet. Please don't let these negative comments discourage you. Besides, we all die with things left on our to do list. You get to choose your priorities. Take care and God bless you and your family.

@@divine34j I love hearing your confidence in determining your own path based on your own priorities and circumstances. There can be so many extenuating circumstances which affect the seasons of our lives - quantity of children, their ages and temperaments, possible depression/post-partem depression, financial worries etc., etc... I love Shaye's channel and the inspiration she brings to my home and our lives, but some things on some nights just. don't. make. the. list. And that's ok. :-) Because, balance... And only we can best determine that based on our own intimate knowledge of our specific circumstances. Right now, my balance looks like a clean kitchen every three mornings. I choose to pour my focus at this time into my children's education, clean clothes, good food, and growing their wonder of God's creation. If my kitchen (which, sans kids, would be one of my top priorities) suffers 80% of the time, so be it. I'm willing to bet that anyone who is following this channel has some of the most beautiful homes in the world, even if some of their stoves have three-day-old grease caked on. It just means that beauty shows up in other ways. "Progress, not perfection", and "I can't do it all!"

I think that some seasons in life are just going to be that way, whether it's seasons of weather or seasons of life. It's okay, and we just keep trying 🙂

Candles are a must for me every night. So relaxing 😌

What a sweet story! Your mom had a great sense of humor. I only hand wash. That way, I don’t have too many dishes cluttering the kitchen plus not everything is dishwasher safe. I want to get rid of the dishwasher but my husband thinks it’s useful for those few times a year gatherings. Right now, it’s holding empty spare jars and kitchen towels!

@@cherokeepurple4480 i’m pretty much the same - thanks to mommy, I like to handwash. The only things that get run thru the dishwasher are glasses and if one of the dog babies lick sausage gravy and biscuits off a plate!

Yes! Dishes done after dinner, counters wipes.. floors swept...leftovers in fridge.....immediately AFTER dinner, always... Everyone that ate at the table, helps out...kids, family, or guests... my kitchen has an 'early bedtime! Lol!

I was never taught that. I had to learn it as an adult unfortunately.