A Week Of Real-Life Housework (Part One): Episode 370
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Most of us enjoy having a clean and tidy home, but have you ever kept track of how much you do throughout the week to keep it that way? In today’s episode, Meagan and Sarah share what seven days of real-life housework looks like in our homes. We reflect on the tasks we knew went into running a home, and some surprising ones we never thought of as housework before (like picking plums and chasing chickens!). Whether you prioritize deep-cleaning on a regular schedule or tend to tidy as you go and hope for the best, it’s eye-opening and gratifying to acknowledge the work that goes into managing a home full of kids. Join us for Part One, and check back next week for Part Two!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Sarah mentioned using this Keepsake Portfolio for all things kids’ artwork and school keepsakes.
- Like the style of the “Week of Real Life…” episodes? Here’s our Week of Real-Life Dinners series:
- A Week Of Real-Life Dinners (Vol. 5): Episode 336
- A Week of Real-Life Dinners: (Vol. 4) Episode 305
- 8 Moms Share Their Family’s Real-Life Dinners For A Week
- A Week Of Real-Life Dinners (Vol. 3): Episode 254
- A Week Of Real-Life Dinners (Vol. 2): Episode 196
- A Week of Real-Life Dinners (Vol. 1): Episode 72
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 370 of the |
| 0:26.3 | mom hour. I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey, |
| 0:31.5 | Sarah. Is your house clean right now? I mean, it'll do. Is it ever? That's okay. |
| 0:37.9 | That is what we're talking about today, friends. We are talking about cleaning, |
| 0:42.4 | which also leads to things like I don't know organizing, tidying. We kept track |
| 0:48.3 | for a whole week earlier this month of what we did in our homes in the realm of |
| 0:53.5 | housework and really home management running a home. So if this sounds familiar |
| 0:58.2 | to you, everyone, we have a popular series here on the mom hour called a week of |
| 1:02.1 | real-life dinners where we write down exactly what we serve and what our |
| 1:05.6 | family eats for a week, not what's on the meal plan or what we hoped to do, but |
| 1:09.5 | what actually happens. And it's really popular. We've had a lot of fun with that |
| 1:13.2 | over the years. Megan, I have always wanted to do a week of real life something |
| 1:17.9 | else. And I have a few different ideas and we just we wanted to try something |
| 1:21.9 | else with this same kind of construct. Yeah. And a note about that when we chose |
| 1:27.7 | housework, part of my brain was like, oh, that's so great. Because everyone wants |
| 1:30.8 | a glimpse into someone else's house and what actually keeping up that house looks |
| 1:33.8 | like for them. And then the other part of me felt like, oh, there's just not going to |
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