Need easy home management tips as a Christian mom? Wondering how stay at home moms get things done? Want to be a joyful mother and an organized stay at home mom who doesn’t rely on excessive screen time to occupy her kids?
If you have young children and you desire to have a smoothly run home without resorting to the electronic babysitter, you have come to the right place! Keep reading for laundry routine tips and home management tips for stay at home moms.
As a homeschooling mom of many little kids, I knew early on that I needed home management solutions if I was going to find my footing as a stay at home mom. Me and my people are in our house all the time. This means there are opportunities galore to make messes.
I knew that the price of giving my kids lots of screen time so that I could clean was way higher than I was willing to pay, but in the midst of all the chaos, I wondered: how do stay at home moms get things done without handing their kid an I-pad?
Maybe you are like me and you are not a “natural homemaker.”
As a Christian mom, your heart is to make your house into a home, but you struggle with the how-to.
If structure and routine do not come intuitively to you, but you desire to be an organized stay at home mom, I can certainly relate to that.
Maybe intentional mothering and the art of homemaking were not modeled to you as a child but still, you long to be a joyful mother and homemaker.
It is okay to not have it all together. The rest of us stay at home moms are right there with you, learning through trial and error how to be a better mom.
Laundry is one of the biggest pain points for overwhelmed moms when it comes to homemaking. We will always have to do it and the piles never seem to shrink.
Let’s chat today about how you can simplify laundry and embrace this necessary homemaking task joyfully.
Today I will help you get things done as a stay at home mom without giving your kids screen time.
Home Management Tips for Stay at Home Moms
Pick a Laundry Routine That Works for You
The most important part of your laundry routine is that you actually do it.
My own preferences have run the gamut in various stages of motherhood between preferring to do a big laundry day once a week, throwing in one load every morning except for Saturdays, and utilizing a no-fold system for the littles when I had two kids under two and my husband was deployed for 7 months.
It doesn’t matter how you do laundry, it just matters that you and your people have clean socks and underwear when the day begins.
Experiment for a couple of weeks and see which laundry routine suits your current season of life. Pick the best laundry routine for you and stick to it for as long as it works well.
How Do Stay At Home Moms Get Things Done?
Here are a few ways I have been able to get things done as a stay at home mom AND remain joyful amid the endless piles of laundry:
Acceptance is Key
Accepting laundry as a fact of life and refusing to give it much thought has gone a long way to improve my mood surrounding house work.
Laundry is SO much easier when you stop thinking about it and start doing it.
Hemming and hawing about how much laundry there is to do or how I just did a bunch yesterday and more appeared today will never make a dent in that pile.
Get up, get washing, and fold quickly.
I like to throw a load of laundry in the washer as a part of my mom morning routine. If I get that load in by 6:30 and remember to dry it an hour later, I can easily have my load of the day folded and put away soon after the kids and I finish eating breakfast.
There are few things better to a stay at home mom than having her laundry box checked off for the day and not having to give it a second thought!
The best laundry routine is the one that will get done like second nature without any decision fatigue for you as a mom.
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Include Your Capable Children
To prevent mom burnout, improve my mood, and get things done as a SAHM, I include all of my capable children in my laundry routine.
The kids fold alongside me and they put away their own piles of clothes.
Including kids in household chores is an excellent way to get things done as a stay at home mom and reduce screen time for your children.
I used to put on TV for my kids so that I could “get things done” but then I realized that I was wasting opportunities to bond with them and equip them with real life skills.
So now, instead of turning to devices to distract my children, I include them in the laundry.
Any chore is more enjoyable when you do it as a team. In our home, we say “many hands make light work” when we do tasks together. Doing laundry with my kids is not a drudgery for any of us. There is a lot of laughter and chatting while we fold.
We as moms need to remember that our kids just want to spend time with us. We could be pushing them on the swing or folding a pile of towels and wash cloths. It doesn’t matter.
What makes or breaks our quality time is our attitude.
When there is housework to be done are we…
- Nagging
- Complaining
- Pouting
- Playing the martyr
- Huffing and puffing like the wolf in The Three Little Pigs
Or are we gathering the troops with a smile, teaching them how to help, and displaying what it looks like to be a joyful mother?
Make Gratitude Your New Habit
This is an essential laundry routine tip for Christian moms…Give thanks!
Giving thanks for my spouse and children as I fold their laundry has helped me to remain joyful and get things done as a stay at home mom.
Instead of looking at the mound of laundry left to be tamed, I aim to consider the person I am serving through the task at hand.
A time of folding a couple of baskets of laundry can go so much faster when we are praying for our loved ones instead of measuring the size of the pile while multitasking on social media.
To me, this is what the art of homemaking is all about.
There may always be socks that are missing their match and little leggings hanging out of the preschooler’s drawer, but what is the ambiance of your home?
The art of homemaking has far more to do with our mood, our willingness to serve, our smile, our heart of gratitude, and our love for our families than it does with a pristine home.
If your house never looks worthy of a full page spread in Better Homes and Gardens but your family feels loved and cared for, you have done your job as a mom.
Christian Mom, Multitask In A Way That Fills Your Soul
Most of us stay at home moms try to do all the things while multitasking with a smartphone. We listen to podcasts while we wash dishes. We scroll on social media while we stir soup. We respond to text messages while we change over the laundry.
All of this screen time is slowing us down.
Christian mom, instead of multitasking with a screen while homemaking, consider multitasking with scripture!
As Christian moms, the word of God is an overflowing source of strength that we GET TO draw from no matter what the day brings.
Reciting scripture memory verses in my head or out loud with my children has helped me to redeem the time in more way than one while I sort, hang, and fold our clothes.
Spending time meditating on scripture feeds my soul.
After a time of recitation, I go from feeling like a frazzled, overwhelmed mom to a joyful mother with an eternal perspective.
Leave a comment below and tell me what your biggest pain point as a homemaker is. What tip from this post are you excited to try out first?
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