271. What the new year holds for us, when a mom should start a business, what to do with all the Christmas gifts, and more Q&A!
Simple Farmhouse Life
Lisa Bass
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Join me for another listener Q&A where I’m sharing my plans for the new year, my secret for hosting large groups in our home, my approach to Christmas gifts as a decluttering mom, and more thoughts on business, motherhood, homemaking, and simplifying life.
In this episode, we cover:
- A recap of our exciting year– leaving our homestead, building our dream farm, launching a cookbook
- What my personal and business priorities are in the new year
- My best advice for hosting friends in your home if you are worried about the mess
- What we do with the influx of gifts for our kids at Christmas (is it okay to get rid of gifts?)
- The reason I haven’t taken any business courses as I have built my online business
- Troubleshooting my popular eggy oatmeal recipe so the eggs don’t scramble
- Is it the right time to start a business on the side when you are a brand new mom?
- If you think your kitchen is too small to start milling whole grains, I have encouragement for you
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| 0:00.0 | When I had a four-year-old and a two-year-old and a baby, I definitely was just learning and practicing those homemaking skills that was such a valuable foundation that really served me well in the future seasons of life. |
| 0:13.3 | Learning how to cook from scratch. |
| 0:14.6 | Once you build that muscle, it's not hard to cook from scratch anymore. |
| 0:17.6 | It's not something that requires a ton of time and effort and planning. It just is very seamless. Once I was able to build that muscle, I felt confident and |
| 0:26.7 | like I was able to take on more without my home life suffering. My name is Lisa, mother of eight |
| 0:31.8 | and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boob. On this podcast, I like to talk about |
| 0:36.6 | simplifying your life so you can |
| 0:38.2 | live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this |
| 0:42.9 | podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the simple sewing series. I also help people reach their |
| 0:48.6 | goals from home through my business courses, create your blog dream, and YouTube Success Academy. |
| 0:53.0 | I will leave links to these resources |
| 0:54.6 | in the show notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Happy New Year. It's hard to believe that it's |
| 1:08.1 | another new year. Today I'm going to recap 2024, maybe talk about |
| 1:13.0 | some of our goals for 2025, and then answer some of your listener questions. But there will be |
| 1:17.8 | some wonderful interviews for all of 2025. And for those of you who send suggestions over, |
| 1:23.9 | I really appreciate that. I am always looking for new guests to have on. Of course, |
| 1:29.2 | some of my favorite guests, I like to have them on again and again. And so we reach out to a lot |
| 1:33.7 | of them. So we're currently booking for 2025. So 2024, what a big year that was for us. In April, |
| 1:42.8 | we bought our farm. So as many of you know who follow along with this |
| 1:47.4 | podcast, we purchased a little homestead on seven acres with an old house, beautiful old silo |
| 1:54.4 | and barn and cottage six years ago now this month we moved in. we for the last couple of years kind of thought |
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