This is a Homemaker Inspirations: I will discuss our day-to-day challenges as homemakers, then offer encouragement and lessons I’ve learned from years in this vocation. Have you ever struggled with a feeling of overwhelm regarding housework? Do you get lost in other more interesting pursuits in life, and then your home looks like a cyclone has hit? Yea, me too. Let’s check in with Career Homemaker’s fictional homemaker named Charity. Maybe if we can help her, we can help ourselves too.

A well-thought-out plan that keeps the basics in mind and her body’s limitations must be implemented. I call this Housework Automation. This is where a homemaker can map out what to do on each workday to spread out the work so it’s easy to maintain, won’t be too stressful to your body, and, when done faithfully, will dig yourself out  ...