# Homemaker Portrait | Jade Brooks

An episode of [The Art of Home: A Podcast for Homemakers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1557993655), 13 Sep 2023, 1 h 07 min.

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Send me a text about this episode! Join me for this Newbie Homemaker Portrait of listener, Jade Brooks. We have a delightful conversation about her growth over the past 2 years of full-time homemaking and how the Lord is teaching her to let go of perfection and focus on the 'why' of homemaking. “Knowing what you’re doing it for helps overcome perfectionism. At the end of the day it’s all for the glory of God.” We chat about setting and keeping priorities in order, making dinner at 5am, showing hospitality through good food and the importance of getting dressed for the day. Jade also opens up about her recent miscarriage and making space in their hearts and home for two teenage nephews. IN THIS EPISODE Connect with Jade: • Instagram| @themodesthomemaker • Website • YouTube | The Modest Homemaker All other links and resources will be available in this week's free newsletter. Click the link below to subscribe. *For future reference, check newsletter archive HOMEMAKING RESOURCES Free Weekly Newsletter, Homemaker Happy Mail Newsletter Archive Free Audio Version and Study Guide for JR Miller's "Homemaking" • Listen to the Audio of the book in our 2023 Summer Reading Series • Get Your Free Study Guide SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH US Leave Us A Review • Love The Podcast (works on any device) Stay In Touch with The Art of Home Podcast • Leave Us a Voicemail • Instagram | Facebook | Website | Email Follow The Art of Home on Your Listening App • Follow The Podcast (works on any device) Support The Art of Home (detailed instructions for sharing, reviewing and tipping) Support the show HOMEMAKING RESOURCES • Homemaker's Journal, AoH Seasonal Magazine • Private Facebook Group, Homemaker Forum • JR Miller's Homemaking Study Guide SUPPORT & CONNECT • Review | Love The Podcast • Contact | Text/Voicemail-use the link at top of description | Website | Email • Follow | Follow The Podcast • Support | theartofhomepodcast.com/support DISCLOSURE • **Buy | as an Amazon affiliate, AoH receives a small commission at no extra cost to you when you use our links to purchase items we recommend • AI Content | Portions of this episode’s copy and/or show notes may have been drafted with the assistance of AI and then reviewed and edited by a human, Allison Weeks.

## Chapters

- 3:30 Meet Jade
- 4:25 Beginnings & Influences
- 10:32 Expectations
- 14:52 Priorities
- 20:52 Temptations & Challenges
- 32:00 Historical Homemaker Hints
- 36:17 Hospitality and Q&A
- 49:31 The Art of Home & Titus 2 Women

## Transcript

[0:04] Allison Weeks: Hello, homemakers, and welcome to the Art of Home podcast, where we are exploring how Homemakers cultivate a place to belong.
[0:11] Allison Weeks: I'm your host, allison Weeks.
[0:13] Allison Weeks: I am a wife, a mom to four grown kids and a granny to one little boy, and I've been practicing the Art of Home for 31 years now.
[0:22] Allison Weeks: Well, this is season 15, episode five, and this is our third listener episode today.
[0:31] Allison Weeks: We just started this season introducing you all to one another through Homemaker portraits of listeners of the Art of Home, and I've been doing several of them, recording them over the last couple of weeks, getting them ready to publish over the rest of the year, and let me tell you they are awesome.
[0:53] Allison Weeks: I cannot wait to share these stories with you.
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[2:05] Allison Weeks: On today's episode we are going to be talking to newbie homemaker Jade Brooks.
[2:11] Allison Weeks: You may know her from Instagram and YouTube as the modest homemaker.
[2:16] Allison Weeks: Jade has been keeping a home for over two years with her husband and we just get to have such a nice conversation about all the things that Jade is learning, how surprised she was at the workload and how she's had to come to terms with the fact that she doesn't know how to do it all and it's not going to be done perfectly, but she just keeps trying and she does see that she is improving and getting better in her homemaking skills.
[2:42] Allison Weeks: Jade has a passion for cooking and for showing love and hospitality through food.
[2:47] Allison Weeks: We talk about how she wants to grow and perfect her fried chicken and collard greens and yams, and though she feels like she's not quite there to the point of really perfecting that dish, she does share her yam recipe with us.
[3:02] Allison Weeks: That's going to be in the newsletter that's going to come out on Friday, so you want to make sure that's another reason you want to make sure you're subscribed to the newsletter.
[3:10] Allison Weeks: I want to thank you for tuning in If you're new here, especially thank you for giving us a try and thank you for trusting us with some of your time today.
[3:18] Allison Weeks: So, whatever you apply your hand to as you're listening, I know you will enjoy Jade's story of home.
[3:23] Allison Weeks: All right, welcome to the art of home.
[3:26] Allison Weeks: I'm here with my friend, jade Brooks, and I'm so excited to meet her in person.
[3:32] Allison Weeks: We've been following each other on Instagram for a while now, and so it's my joy to bring her here on the show today and introduce her to all of you.
[3:41] Allison Weeks: So, jade, before we go back to the beginning of your homemaker story, why don't you just say hi, introduce yourself.
[3:46] Jade Brooks: Tell everybody a little bit about who you are, okay so my name is Jade, I've been married for two years to my husband, alex, and I am pretty much living my homemaking dream.
[3:58] Jade Brooks: I've always wanted to be homemaker, so this is always my goal of always picture myself being a writer and a homemaker.
[4:05] Jade Brooks: So that's great to see that play out in my life.
[4:08] Jade Brooks: So yeah, as I said, I like to write, I do some baking on the side that I like, and I'm a Bible study teacher for the women's Bible study, and that's pretty much it.
[4:21] Allison Weeks: Great, okay, so let's go back to the beginning.
[4:25] Allison Weeks: When did you first become a homemaker?
[4:27] Allison Weeks: And when you did, did you bring any skills with you?
[4:30] Jade Brooks: I first became a homemaker two years ago when we initially got married and my skills were a little shaky.
[4:36] Jade Brooks: I will say I didn't really know how to cook that well and I knew how to do laundry.
[4:43] Jade Brooks: So I can say that I brought that skill, but as far as everything else I did not have it.
[4:48] Jade Brooks: So I pretty much was learning on the way because, yeah, I didn't know what I was doing at all.
[4:54] Jade Brooks: So, yeah, well, that's good you have some laundry skills.
[5:01] Allison Weeks: A lot of people, like you know well into adulthood, don't have that skill.
[5:05] Allison Weeks: So that's good yeah.
[5:05] Allison Weeks: Well, okay, what are you?
[5:08] Allison Weeks: What are you?
[5:08] Allison Weeks: Maybe you can talk a little bit about what you've done to sort of up your skills, because it's only been two years, so kind of, what are some of the things you've done to grow in that, in those areas, and maybe what's something right now that you're struggling with, mightily or not, that you're growing in and what are some practical things you're doing to grow?
[5:26] Jade Brooks: So how I grown is being that I'm a full-time homemaker.
[5:31] Jade Brooks: I don't have any job of any sort.
[5:33] Jade Brooks: I feel like that enabled me to spend as much time with the things I was not good at as I could.
[5:38] Jade Brooks: So, as far as like cooking and stuff, I had pretty much all day to make a meal, and if I mess it up and had to start over, I had time for that.
[5:46] Jade Brooks: It's not like I had much else to do, but to you know, try to get it right.
[5:50] Jade Brooks: So you know, just practice making making perfection.
[5:54] Jade Brooks: For me and that's what helped me out was just doing it over and over and over and over again and allow myself some grace.
[6:02] Jade Brooks: And having a husband like mine who knows that I didn't know how to cook or had any skills, I feel like he gave me more grace than I gave myself.
[6:11] Jade Brooks: So that was very helpful, to have him push me and just say you know, I'm not expecting, you know it's you to have everything together already.
[6:20] Jade Brooks: You're going to have to learn.
[6:21] Jade Brooks: So I feel like him being a coach for me and being a help for me.
[6:25] Jade Brooks: That helped as well.
[6:27] Jade Brooks: And then, as far as the other challenges, um, I feel like I do sometimes still struggle with like inventory.
[6:35] Jade Brooks: Take, like, when we have to go to like the grocery store.
[6:39] Jade Brooks: We'll get into the store and I'll say, oh yeah, this is a list we need to set in the third.
[6:44] Jade Brooks: And then we'll get home and be like, oh my God, we don't have this or that.
[6:47] Jade Brooks: He's like I asked you what do we need?
[6:50] Jade Brooks: And he's like he doesn't really do any type of inventory check because that's my thing.
[6:55] Jade Brooks: I'm always in the kitchen, I'm always in the laundry room or whatever, what have you.
[6:58] Jade Brooks: So he has no idea when we run out of certain things.
[7:01] Jade Brooks: So he's expecting me to keep track on that.
[7:04] Jade Brooks: So I try my best.
[7:06] Jade Brooks: And he bought me a little inventory book, so I feel like that now it's helping me a little better to take that inventory that I lacking.
[7:16] Allison Weeks: Yeah, yeah.
[7:17] Allison Weeks: No, that's a great tool Lists, chalkboard.
[7:20] Allison Weeks: I put a chalkboard list on the side of the refrigerator, a chalkboard, and we make a list.
[7:25] Allison Weeks: I write it down because I will.
[7:27] Jade Brooks: Yes.
[7:28] Allison Weeks: And then if I'm headed out the store to the grocery, sometimes I can transfer that list into a piece of paper and take, but a lot of times I just take a picture with my phone of what's on that list.
[7:37] Allison Weeks: Okay, yeah, so I don't have to like write it all down, you know so.
[7:41] Allison Weeks: I'll just throughout throughout the week, I'll be making a list on the chalkboard Okay, we're out of ketchup, or we're out of this or that, and then, when I'm ready to go to the store, I just take a picture of that.
[7:51] Jade Brooks: Yeah, so I don't know if that's helpful, but yeah, however, yeah however you can, you know, help yourself with those kinds of tools.
[7:59] Allison Weeks: I think that's really great and I love that your husband what you said about him giving you so much more grace than you did yourself.
[8:04] Jade Brooks: He really does Like.
[8:06] Jade Brooks: I was very, very hard on myself.
[8:07] Jade Brooks: I used to have little breakdowns all the time, year one it was ridiculous, it really was.
[8:12] Jade Brooks: But yeah, he was definitely very.
[8:15] Jade Brooks: He just allowed me and encouraged me to just be confident in this.
[8:20] Jade Brooks: You know he's not judging me for anything.
[8:22] Jade Brooks: I'm not gonna accept me with the mistakes and stuff.
[8:27] Allison Weeks: So I just had to, I just had to calm down a little bit, that's.
[8:29] Jade Brooks: that's what I needed.
[8:31] Allison Weeks: Yeah, okay.
[8:32] Allison Weeks: Well, who, who or what has most influenced your homemaking, would you say?
[8:37] Jade Brooks: I want to say my grandmother, my maternal grandmother.
[8:40] Jade Brooks: She definitely inspired me.
[8:42] Jade Brooks: She wasn't exactly like a she was retired by the time I was able to know anything that she was doing around the home, but she had a certain way of going about things like making sure that me and my cousins or my brothers and sisters they lived in Florida for a while.
[9:00] Jade Brooks: They're from PA, but they lived in Florida for a while, so we would spend some summers with them, me and my brothers and sisters and cousins and just seeing the way that she would nurture us and take us in and make sure that we were having a good time, making sure that we were fed.
[9:13] Jade Brooks: I always admire that and she's also a very praying woman, so that was very inspiring as well to see that in action and for her to make sure that we knew how to pray and to make sure that we had a relationship with God, for us to know how to repent.
[9:27] Jade Brooks: Those things were very key to her and I always admired that and I always took note of that.
[9:32] Jade Brooks: So I definitely would say she definitely was an inspiration for me.
[9:36] Jade Brooks: As far as homemaking, I love that.
[9:39] Allison Weeks: I love that you had that time with your grandmother visiting, even though she was far away and not made a big impact, had a big impact on you.
[9:46] Allison Weeks: Yeah, I got to spend some summers with both of my grandmothers, because actually my grandparents lived right next door to one another, that's nice.
[9:54] Allison Weeks: Yeah, my parents were next door neighbors.
[9:56] Allison Weeks: That's how they met.
[9:59] Allison Weeks: They're so cute Anyway it was really convenient when I went there for the summer because I could, I stayed with one grandma because she had.
[10:06] Allison Weeks: I have an aunt who's only two years older than me, but anyway I stayed there, but my other one was right next door.
[10:11] Allison Weeks: So I just go back and forth between the houses.
[10:15] Jade Brooks: And it's so funny how one influenced different things.
[10:18] Allison Weeks: You know one had a different kind of influence than the other.
[10:19] Allison Weeks: They both influenced me, but in different ways because they were very different.
[10:23] Allison Weeks: So I appreciate both you know both things that they brought.
[10:28] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[10:30] Allison Weeks: Okay, let's talk about expectations.
[10:31] Allison Weeks: What are some things that have surprised you about homemaking?
[10:36] Allison Weeks: Things, good or bad, just some of you didn't expect.
[10:39] Jade Brooks: I didn't expect it to be a lot of work.
[10:40] Jade Brooks: I don't say that.
[10:42] Jade Brooks: I think that when I thought about homemaking, I thought that I was just going to wake up in the morning, you know, cook the meals, do whatever, and just you know, relax and write a book or two.
[10:52] Jade Brooks: I think that I had that type of vision for relaxation in the house and that just was not the case at all.
[10:59] Jade Brooks: So I think that once I did realize and get into the groove of my homemaking that this is really work, that I really have to plan and think about, pray about, that was a shock to me, that it's like literally a job, you know.
[11:14] Jade Brooks: So when people undermine the job of a homemaker is a shame, because it's like we really do work, you know.
[11:20] Jade Brooks: So that that was.
[11:21] Jade Brooks: My biggest surprise was the workload of it all.
[11:26] Allison Weeks: Yeah, yeah, you said you were thinking more relaxing and writing.
[11:28] Allison Weeks: So, are you?
[11:30] Allison Weeks: Was that hard for you?
[11:31] Allison Weeks: Because you said you're a writer?
[11:33] Allison Weeks: I know you have a blog.
[11:33] Allison Weeks: I mean, are you wanting to be able to write more and were you hoping that that would fit better with your career of homemaking?
[11:40] Allison Weeks: Like those two would go a little bit better together.
[11:44] Jade Brooks: Yeah, I will say so.
[11:45] Jade Brooks: And I feel like now I kind of just write in the margins.
[11:48] Jade Brooks: You know, when I don't have as much home, home things to do, I'll do it, I'll sit down, and because for me it's like as much as I do love writing, I feel like homemaking is a bigger passion and a bigger necessity really for everybody.
[12:02] Jade Brooks: You know not that I'm kind of just pushing that off, that I like to write, but for me I feel like the home is first, because at the end of the day, if I don't have lunch for the household, people are going to be looking at me a certain type of way.
[12:15] Jade Brooks: I was like well, I had to do 10 pages, guys.
[12:17] Jade Brooks: What was I supposed to do?
[12:20] Jade Brooks: You know they're going to be looking at me a little funny, so yeah, I just showed it to as I can and I feel like you know it's been working out pretty, pretty good.
[12:30] Allison Weeks: Yeah, and I was just listening to maybe Sally Clarkson, I don't know somebody.
[12:36] Allison Weeks: I was just listening to a podcast this morning and they were talking about this how you don't have as much margin when you're a brand new homemaker because you have like you just said, you have so many skills to learn and that takes longer, like your learning curve is just bigger.
[12:52] Allison Weeks: It just takes longer to get.
[12:53] Allison Weeks: But once you get more proficient in those skills you do get a little bit bigger margins and you've probably noticed that even just since we use it it doesn't take quite as long to do some of those cooking tasks or homemaking so true, so true.
[13:07] Jade Brooks: And it's funny that you're saying that, because I don't think I realized, like because my time is kind of freeing up a little bit more now.
[13:12] Jade Brooks: So I'm glad about that, and I don't think I put my finger on why, but that makes sense.
[13:17] Jade Brooks: So I like to set that as probably because you know I'm getting better at the cooking and all that stuff and you know timing, so yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
[13:29] Allison Weeks: So what's an unrealistic expectation besides that?
[13:31] Allison Weeks: Is there any other thing you just had to let go of?
[13:34] Allison Weeks: Like your husband's just not going to be picking his socks?
[13:37] Jade Brooks: off the floor.
[13:39] Allison Weeks: It just kind of let that go.
[13:40] Allison Weeks: Is it anything like that?
[13:42] Allison Weeks: Yeah?
[13:44] Jade Brooks: Well, I kind of alluded to it already.
[13:45] Jade Brooks: Like the perfection thing, I feel like that's the main thing I had to let go of is being perfect, and that every meal was not going to turn out great.
[13:53] Jade Brooks: Every meal you may not like.
[13:55] Jade Brooks: So that's the type of thing that I had to really let go of, because, like I said in the beginning, I would have literal breakdowns when something was not to my liking, where I feel like my husband maybe didn't like a certain meal that I feel like I put my all into.
[14:09] Jade Brooks: You know, I really had to pray about that and get over that.
[14:13] Jade Brooks: And one of the key things that really helped me with that perfection thing is knowing what you're doing it for, you know, and that it's all for the glory of God at the end of the day.
[14:24] Jade Brooks: And if it's for somebody to say good job or for somebody to glorify you, you really have to check your heart on that.
[14:33] Jade Brooks: So I feel like that's something that God really had to teach me is that you're doing this for me.
[14:38] Jade Brooks: You know, yes, you're serving your husband, but at the end of the day, you're glorifying me in that.
[14:43] Jade Brooks: So that's how I really got to get over that.
[14:48] Allison Weeks: That's really.
[14:49] Allison Weeks: That is a good word.
[14:50] Allison Weeks: Yes, I agree completely.
[14:51] Allison Weeks: Well, let's talk a little bit about priorities and some of the practical steps that you're taking to help you kind of set your priorities and keep things in the right order.
[15:03] Allison Weeks: So your time with the Lord, your time with your husband and getting your house you know, your housework done, and then then all the other things that you want to do.
[15:12] Allison Weeks: What are some things you do to keep those priorities in order?
[15:15] Jade Brooks: My main thing that I do is waking up early, and so I get up at five pretty much every day, unless I'm having a night where we were watching TV or such.
[15:29] Jade Brooks: But other than that, I'm up at five and I try to get dinner done pretty early, try to get just any of the meals done relatively early, because I feel like that's what takes up the most time, and then I'll focus on whatever tasks.
[15:45] Jade Brooks: Well, actually, let me go back After dinner.
[15:47] Jade Brooks: I usually have like a 6 am prayer time and devotional time, so that is always the main.
[15:53] Jade Brooks: If I know that if I do not get up at five, it can risk me not praying at the early time that I should be praying, so I will say that that's very important that I get up for that and keep that in the morning and then do whatever tasks I have to do after.
[16:07] Jade Brooks: That is something that I really focus on.
[16:10] Jade Brooks: But then, as far as with my husband, how I prioritize time with him is we try to make sure that we have a weekly date night.
[16:20] Jade Brooks: So that's something that we started a couple of months back and we've been pretty consistent with that.
[16:25] Jade Brooks: So I feel like, yeah, that's something that we try to say, mindful of.
[16:32] Allison Weeks: What's your weekly date night typically look like?
[16:34] Allison Weeks: Or is it just different all the time, like are y'all going out or are you staying in?
[16:38] Jade Brooks: We try to go out.
[16:39] Jade Brooks: So before.
[16:41] Jade Brooks: I don't know if you guys have this out in Texas or it's like a worldwide thing, but you know, half off apps at Applebee's yeah.
[16:49] Allison Weeks: I think I've heard of that before.
[16:50] Allison Weeks: Yeah, so is it like a certain hour or a certain day of the night, a night of the week?
[16:54] Jade Brooks: Yes, a certain night of the week and a certain hour.
[16:55] Jade Brooks: So after nine, apps are half off, so you get them really cheap.
[17:00] Jade Brooks: So we were doing that for a while until we realized, like I don't think it's a good idea to keep eating wings every Thursday.
[17:07] Jade Brooks: This is not the healthiest choice, so we kind of stop doing that.
[17:12] Jade Brooks: But most of the time it's usually is going out to eat, or a couple of times we did other activities, we went bowling, so for the most part I will say it's eating, but we're now starting to try to do other things.
[17:24] Jade Brooks: Oh, we do do.
[17:25] Jade Brooks: Also, there's a discount on Tuesday for movies, and this is any time of the day.
[17:32] Jade Brooks: So that's another thing that we were doing a lot as well.
[17:36] Jade Brooks: Cool, yeah that's cool.
[17:37] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[17:39] Allison Weeks: So you mentioned that your early morning routine.
[17:41] Allison Weeks: You're up at five.
[17:42] Allison Weeks: You are prepping for dinner when you get up in the morning.
[17:47] Allison Weeks: Okay, so what are you doing, like for dinner?
[17:51] Allison Weeks: Like cutting vegetables and that kind of thing?
[17:53] Jade Brooks: I usually do the whole thing.
[17:54] Jade Brooks: I'll make the whole, yeah, I'll make the whole whole meal, put it in the refrigerator.
[17:59] Jade Brooks: If it's something like pasta, I'll do that closer to dinner time.
[18:04] Jade Brooks: I'll like boil the noodles, put that away and like, do like the chicken prep and then do the sauce later, because if you put it in the refrigerator kind of makes it kind of you know funny.
[18:14] Jade Brooks: So I try to do something like that later.
[18:17] Jade Brooks: But most of the time, yeah, the actual meal is done in the morning.
[18:23] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[18:24] Allison Weeks: And that's something.
[18:24] Allison Weeks: Some good discipline.
[18:25] Allison Weeks: Yeah, I bet that made a big difference in your evening routine.
[18:30] Jade Brooks: Yeah, because I don't know how.
[18:32] Jade Brooks: For me personally, the times where I had to make dinner closer to dinner time, I'm like I don't know how do people do this?
[18:37] Jade Brooks: Like this is too much pressure, you know, because you try to keep yourself at a set dinner time and if it's not ready by that time, it's like, you know, kind of puts me in a panic personally.
[18:48] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[18:49] Allison Weeks: Yeah, that's good, that's a great idea, okay.
[18:52] Allison Weeks: Well, how do you maintain a healthy relationship with media, social media, media in general?
[18:59] Allison Weeks: I mean?
[18:59] Allison Weeks: I know you're, you have a presence online and that's kind of important to you to help get your message out there.
[19:06] Allison Weeks: So what are some ways that you keep it from taking over your time?
[19:11] Jade Brooks: So on my phone, in the, I have an iPhone, so in my settings I realize you can do these timers with your apps.
[19:20] Jade Brooks: So what I have learned to do and started implementing is with Twitter well, not Twitter, I don't know why I said that with Facebook, tiktok and Instagram.
[19:31] Jade Brooks: I try to limit myself to 30 minutes a day.
[19:34] Jade Brooks: That's it, and after that the thing will go great and you can either add a couple of minutes but I try to discipline myself to not add the couple of minutes or you can ignore it, but it's a way that I've tried to limit myself.
[19:48] Jade Brooks: But some days are not the best, but I try my best to stay off of it because it's just a distraction, honestly.
[19:55] Jade Brooks: And yeah, some days I just feel like I don't have that great of a healthy relationship with social media.
[20:01] Jade Brooks: Just because the things you see can be distracting, it can be not as encouraging as it should be.
[20:08] Jade Brooks: So I just know that I kind of got to keep my distance sometimes.
[20:13] Allison Weeks: Yeah, yeah.
[20:14] Allison Weeks: How do you manage your like talk it when people message you or you know anything like that?
[20:20] Allison Weeks: Do you just do it right there, or do you have a set time where you go in and interact with people?
[20:25] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[20:25] Jade Brooks: So I feel like that's my problem, Like I don't like keeping people waiting in my messages.
[20:30] Jade Brooks: Like if I see a message, I try to respond relatively quickly.
[20:34] Jade Brooks: Or if I make a certain post that I feel like it's going to get a lot of responses, I'll be on social media more.
[20:39] Jade Brooks: You know what I mean.
[20:40] Jade Brooks: So that's something that I still feel like I have to manage.
[20:45] Allison Weeks: Yeah, me too.
[20:46] Allison Weeks: Let me know if you figure that out.
[20:47] Allison Weeks: I will, yeah, okay, well, let's talk about some other temptations and challenges for homemakers.
[20:54] Allison Weeks: So which of these temptations have you struggled with the most, and what is God teaching you through it?
[21:00] Allison Weeks: So, a comparison to other women B I'm just a homemaker, I'm not getting paid, so this is not a real job.
[21:08] Allison Weeks: Or C superwoman trying to do all the things.
[21:12] Jade Brooks: Definitely more so superwoman.
[21:14] Jade Brooks: I feel like I definitely don't feel like I try to be superwoman as much now, but definitely in the past I struggled with that and I feel like the way that I combated that struggle is just accepting help, like, for whatever reason, if we're having guests over, I would get an attitude If my husband tried to help me with, like kitchen prep or things like that, I'm like no, this is my meal, get out of the kitchen.
[21:39] Jade Brooks: It's just like why do that to myself and put on more pressure to have everything done for the guests?
[21:46] Jade Brooks: So accepting help is what I really had to come to terms with.
[21:51] Jade Brooks: It's just, it's nothing wrong with it and my husband is very helpful and that wise, and he's actually the better cook of the two of us.
[21:58] Jade Brooks: So every now and then yes, every now and then if I'm not feeling as confident with a certain meal that he may be, I get a little help with that.
[22:07] Jade Brooks: But yeah, that's something that I feel like definitely was an issue for me.
[22:11] Jade Brooks: As far as the other category, comparison I don't really struggle with comparison as much.
[22:19] Jade Brooks: I feel like recently I only have as far as like women who are like moms.
[22:24] Jade Brooks: I was having an issue with that because you know I'm not a natural mom, you know, yes, so I had a little issue with that.
[22:34] Jade Brooks: But other than that not a big deal, not too bad.
[22:38] Allison Weeks: Okay, and I already know you already answered the question about being just a homemaker, because you figured that out really quick.
[22:43] Allison Weeks: Yes, so absolutely not.
[22:46] Jade Brooks: I will tell people yes, I'm a homemaker, that's my job.
[22:48] Jade Brooks: Absolutely Never, never, a big deal to me to try to add on, I love.
[22:54] Allison Weeks: I love, though, that accepting help was your antidote to being super women.
[23:00] Jade Brooks: That's so good.
[23:01] Jade Brooks: Yes, that is so wise.
[23:02] Allison Weeks: So let's talk about any other special challenges that you have faced over the past couple of years in your homemaking journey, and what's God teaching you through that.
[23:11] Jade Brooks: So one, we have two.
[23:13] Jade Brooks: I have two special challenges.
[23:14] Jade Brooks: Is that okay?
[23:15] Jade Brooks: Yeah, so the first one was earlier this year I actually suffered a miscarriage, so that was definitely a struggle that I really didn't see coming.
[23:26] Jade Brooks: We were very excited to be pregnant and then, out of nowhere, without really me knowing why, the baby just didn't make it.
[23:35] Jade Brooks: I didn't really.
[23:37] Jade Brooks: I really wasn't that far along at all.
[23:39] Jade Brooks: But that definitely was a struggle as to really figuring out with God like why did that have to happen to me and why did that have to be my situation, but a way that I really got over that.
[23:53] Jade Brooks: It's just really realizing that obviously God knows what's best right, and God knows why that baby didn't make it or why that baby couldn't be here.
[24:03] Jade Brooks: And I just have to come to terms with that and that it just may not have been the time.
[24:09] Jade Brooks: But that was something that was very hard for me and very hard for pretty much my husband and I for that season, and really just reflecting and trying to try again after that really and not having that fear and anxiety of, okay, what is going to happen this time?
[24:29] Jade Brooks: Is this going to be another situation?
[24:31] Jade Brooks: How long were we going to have to wait on another chance of that.
[24:35] Jade Brooks: So that was something that was definitely very difficult and in that time.
[24:41] Allison Weeks: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that that's really difficult.
[24:46] Allison Weeks: Yeah, so you said you had another one.
[24:49] Allison Weeks: Yeah.
[24:49] Jade Brooks: And the second challenge is something that's a little bit more recent that me and my husband actually had to take on responsibility for two of his teenage boy cousins.
[24:59] Jade Brooks: So we have a 14 and 16 year old living in our home now.
[25:02] Jade Brooks: So, wow, teenagers, teenagers.
[25:08] Allison Weeks: Oh my goodness.
[25:09] Allison Weeks: Okay, how's that going?
[25:11] Allison Weeks: It's going well.
[25:12] Jade Brooks: Actually, it's going really well.
[25:13] Jade Brooks: It's going really well.
[25:15] Jade Brooks: I was definitely very nervous about it because, like you said, teenagers are teenagers, that's all you have to say.
[25:21] Jade Brooks: Is teenagers because they come with their own set way of doing things, their own way of thinking, you know, thinking, they know what's best, thinking, they're grown and all that type of thing.
[25:31] Jade Brooks: So I was definitely very nervous about that.
[25:34] Jade Brooks: And I met their cousins, you know, in the past and but the the the past things that we've had, the time that we spent together.
[25:42] Jade Brooks: It didn't allow me enough time to really know who they are and to know their habits, to know their you know, those, those type of things.
[25:49] Jade Brooks: So I found myself like asking my husband's like you know, what is this going to be like?
[25:53] Jade Brooks: Are they the type of kids that have attitudes, will they listen to me?
[25:56] Jade Brooks: That type of thing?
[25:58] Jade Brooks: So that definitely was a challenge.
[26:01] Jade Brooks: Is okay, what?
[26:02] Jade Brooks: is this going to look like in all reality.
[26:05] Jade Brooks: What is this going to look like?
[26:06] Jade Brooks: But, like I said, it's really been a blessing because I, we want the kids.
[26:10] Jade Brooks: You know, we, we.
[26:10] Jade Brooks: I desire to be a mom, my husband desires to be a father, so really it was a blessing in the sky to really get older kids that skip in preschool baby and jumping right into the teenage years.
[26:21] Jade Brooks: I feel blessed about that and I feel blessed to learn more about that age bracket.
[26:27] Jade Brooks: So that has been very helpful.
[26:30] Jade Brooks: But, yeah, it was just mainly like just the preparation of it all, like really having to pray to God.
[26:38] Jade Brooks: Okay, how are you going to teach us how to raise two boys?
[26:42] Jade Brooks: You know, because I have no clue.
[26:44] Jade Brooks: I have no clue at all.
[26:46] Jade Brooks: But we've been leaning in on God and really trusting in him and it's been great.
[26:51] Jade Brooks: They're good listeners.
[26:51] Jade Brooks: You don't really have to ask them for much, they don't really have much expectations.
[26:56] Jade Brooks: So it's been, it's been really good, it's been really good so far.
[27:02] Allison Weeks: Oh wow, teenagers.
[27:04] Allison Weeks: Okay, I mean, you know, you told me we talked about this before we started recording and we were going to talk about this subject.
[27:11] Allison Weeks: I was, of course, assuming they were younger.
[27:13] Allison Weeks: I don't know why I didn't.
[27:15] Allison Weeks: That's a big deal.
[27:18] Jade Brooks: Okay, so I'm going to ask you.
[27:19] Allison Weeks: I'm going to ask.
[27:20] Allison Weeks: They've been with you a few months now.
[27:22] Jade Brooks: No, well, the whole situation has been going on for a month or so, but they've only been here for about like a week.
[27:30] Jade Brooks: In some change now.
[27:30] Jade Brooks: So this is brand new.
[27:33] Jade Brooks: Okay, brand new, brand new.
[27:35] Allison Weeks: Okay, how you know, I know it's early, it's only been a little bit of time that they've been in the home with you.
[27:41] Allison Weeks: But what are some things you're already seeing that this is going to change your homemaking Like?
[27:45] Allison Weeks: What are some things you're going to have to cook more?
[27:48] Allison Weeks: I will tell you that I know.
[27:49] Allison Weeks: Can you get a younger sister in the morning and?
[27:51] Jade Brooks: judge what she'd been through in the morning.
[27:54] Jade Brooks: I don't know, I'm not sure if I've had a longer yes Already, so I know.
[27:57] Jade Brooks: But yes, so, like you said, definitely the cooking thing, because it's easy for me to say, oh, I don't feel like eating lunch.
[28:04] Jade Brooks: You know, it's easy for my husband to do that type of thing, like I don't really want lunch right now, but the kids have to eat.
[28:13] Jade Brooks: So that's something that I really have to think of.
[28:15] Jade Brooks: Like okay, like you can't really be lax as much as you could in the past, you could in the past.
[28:19] Jade Brooks: They have to eat.
[28:20] Jade Brooks: So maintaining that, learning what they like and things of that nature, and you know, I feel like that's been the biggest thing.
[28:29] Jade Brooks: Like you said, laundry, that's been a new thing, and, lord, just the bigger piles, the bigger piles and things like that is something that I really had to think of, but, as of right now, it's still something that we're still trying to iron out, because they'll be going to school next week, so we're still trying to figure out what's that gonna look like.
[28:51] Jade Brooks: Interestingly though, I did a little thing that I called a school drill today, so I made them get up as if it was a school day, and I said boys, you have to.
[29:00] Jade Brooks: So one of the boys has his school literally across the street from our house, so that's good for him.
[29:06] Jade Brooks: He'll be going to high school right across the street.
[29:08] Jade Brooks: But the other one is still in middle school, so he has to walk to a bus stop that's like 10 or 15 minutes away from the house.
[29:15] Jade Brooks: So the idea that I had was okay, get up, get dressed, eat breakfast as if you were going to school and walk to the bus stop, because you need to know how long it's gonna take you to get to the bus and what time do you have to leave and what have you.
[29:28] Allison Weeks: So they did that today and I was like I'm not gonna wake you guys up.
[29:31] Jade Brooks: So if you're late, I'm just gonna tell you at such a time, guess what?
[29:33] Jade Brooks: You missed the bus, you missed your first class, as if it was really the first day of school.
[29:39] Jade Brooks: So they did a good job.
[29:41] Jade Brooks: They really shocked me.
[29:42] Jade Brooks: They really shocked me.
[29:44] Jade Brooks: So I feel like it's gonna be a good time.
[29:49] Allison Weeks: Good, that's really smart.
[29:51] Jade Brooks: I love that idea.
[29:52] Allison Weeks: So I'm sure somebody is gonna jump on that idea and try that.
[29:56] Allison Weeks: I will tell you, yeah, for sure your grocery bill is gonna go up.
[30:00] Allison Weeks: But on that inventory thing, yeah, I would especially now that you've got the two boys living with you at home have a list somewhere that everybody can add to.
[30:11] Jade Brooks: Oh, that's good, and you're gonna have to.
[30:13] Allison Weeks: yeah, you'll have to train them.
[30:14] Allison Weeks: If you drink the last of the milk, please, please write on the list milk Got you.
[30:20] Allison Weeks: If you're not the one who drank the last of the milk and one of the boys did, you're not necessarily gonna think to go check and see.
[30:27] Allison Weeks: You know what I'm saying, Especially because you've been living which is you and your husband until this point.
[30:32] Allison Weeks: So you need to do that communal grocery list somewhere where everybody can see it, Got you?
[30:37] Jade Brooks: yes, I'm gonna get on that, but really quick.
[30:40] Jade Brooks: I did wanna say that was something you said that made me wanna go back to a challenge.
[30:44] Jade Brooks: I don't know, and now I kinda forgot.
[30:46] Jade Brooks: Yeah, as far as groceries, that has been a challenge because we've been kinda struggling on the routine because now that we have the addition of the two it's like we can't.
[30:59] Jade Brooks: obviously we need more food, so we've been at the store like five times or more since they've been here, and that's not a usual thing.
[31:08] Jade Brooks: Me and my husband we only go like every two weeks, so it's just like oh my gosh, and I had to sit down and tell them like, look guys, dinner is not usually this late, we just gotta get back on a routine.
[31:19] Jade Brooks: We have a set dinner time that we have and I really want you guys to know that this is the expectation 5.30 PM every day.
[31:26] Jade Brooks: That's dinner time, not 9 AM 8 AM.
[31:28] Jade Brooks: But it's been a struggle because we have to grocery shop more, yeah, yeah.
[31:35] Allison Weeks: No, that is when all of mine were still at home, I'm sorry to say.
[31:40] Allison Weeks: I was at the grocery store like every other day.
[31:43] Allison Weeks: Oh my gosh.
[31:46] Allison Weeks: I mean they knew me by name there at the grocery store.
[31:49] Allison Weeks: Now I do curbside cause that's pretty standard.
[31:53] Allison Weeks: It wasn't when they were all still at home, but anyway, yes, I know my grocery store workers very well.
[31:59] Allison Weeks: We'll get back to Jade's story in just a minute.
[32:03] Allison Weeks: Right now it's time for historical homemaker heads.
[32:06] Allison Weeks: This is the part of the podcast where we highlight some of the helpful and not so helpful hints doled out to homemakers throughout history.
[32:14] Allison Weeks: Today's hints are once again coming from 1003 household hints and work savers from WL, moody and Co.
[32:23] Allison Weeks: Bankers of Galveston, texas, published in 1948.
[32:28] Allison Weeks: This handy little guide has quite a lot to say about how to take good care of your kitchen appliances.
[32:34] Allison Weeks: If you have trouble with waffle sticking and you are sure the temperature is right, it may be that the recipe you are using doesn't call for enough fat.
[32:43] Allison Weeks: Try adding one or two extra tablespoons.
[32:49] Allison Weeks: Well-scoured coffee pots make the best-flavored coffee.
[32:52] Allison Weeks: Rancid-tasting coffee is often the result of tiny particles of old coffee which cling to the inside surface.
[33:00] Allison Weeks: Wash thoroughly in clean hot soap suds, using a small brush to get into all crevices.
[33:08] Allison Weeks: Rinse thoroughly in clear hot water.
[33:11] Allison Weeks: Dry air between uses To minimize lime deposits in a tea kettle.
[33:19] Allison Weeks: Empty and dry it at the end of every day.
[33:22] Allison Weeks: A light coating of lime can be removed by boiling a vinegar solution in the kettle for 10 minutes, then wash, rinse and dry Repeated intervals.
[33:32] Allison Weeks: The same vinegar solution can be used again and again.
[33:37] Allison Weeks: I've been using vinegar to descale my coffee pots for years now and I would do that once every I don't know two or three months, whenever I felt like the buildup was starting to get to be too much.
[33:48] Allison Weeks: I would run a Brew worth of vinegar usually half vinegar, half water through the coffee pot and if it was a curing I would just fill about half of the reservoir With a half and half vinegar water mixture and run that through.
[34:04] Allison Weeks: But in order to make sure that there was absolutely no vinegar left in the pot or in the brewer, I would have to run pot after pot after pot or cup after cup after cured cup Worth of just plain water to get every last residue of the vinegar out.
[34:19] Allison Weeks: So I did a little research on this here recently and I've been trying out Citric acid instead, because it's supposed to be just as effective, if not more effective, at Removing the scale or the, the mineral buildup inside of your machine and it does not leave that aftertaste and it's perfectly safe.
[34:40] Allison Weeks: It's just naturally derived from citrus and you can buy it in bulk packages off of Amazon, probably even at Walmart, and all you do is you make a solution out of these citric acid and water and you let that dissolve and then you pour that into your brewer and then you let it sit for a while so that it can dissolve those minerals and then you run it through a cycle.
[35:01] Allison Weeks: You still have to do it a few times to make sure you get all of the residue out that has been released by that citric acid, and then you dump it all out and you have a fresh new coffee pot or coffee brewer to work with.
[35:15] Allison Weeks: You can buy ready-made descaling or Brewer cleaners.
[35:20] Allison Weeks: I know Keurig mates one and the Nespresso machine that we have makes one.
[35:24] Allison Weeks: But it's really quite simple to make your own because the main ingredient in those ready-made solutions is Citric acid.
[35:31] Allison Weeks: I will put a link down below in the show notes for where I got my bag of citric acid so you can try making your own solution to clean your coffee pots and your tea kettles.
[35:41] Allison Weeks: And finally, unless you have money to throw away, never put electric kitchen appliances in water.
[35:47] Allison Weeks: Clean them with a polishing cloth or brush After pulling out the wall plug.
[35:53] Allison Weeks: Well, I'm glad that they mentioned that.
[35:55] Allison Weeks: Yes, please do not drop your kitchen appliances in water, especially if they're still plugged into the wall.
[36:01] Allison Weeks: Well, that's it for today's historical home making hints.
[36:04] Allison Weeks: As always, these hints are intended for entertainment purposes only, and we leave it up to you, the listener, to determine the safety and soundness of this advice.
[36:13] Allison Weeks: Now back to Jade's story.
[36:15] Allison Weeks: Okay, well, let's you ready to move on to hospitality?
[36:19] Allison Weeks: Yes, okay.
[36:21] Allison Weeks: So what is a practical way that you show hospitality in your home making?
[36:26] Jade Brooks: cooking.
[36:27] Jade Brooks: I feel like that's that's the easiest and most fulfilling way for me to show hospitality Is I love to cook for anybody the family, my friends.
[36:36] Jade Brooks: If they come over people from church, I like to invite them over and just just to eat.
[36:41] Jade Brooks: You know, that's that's my love language is cooking for you.
[36:44] Jade Brooks: I can cook you a good meal, I can make you some nice bread and nice cookies and things of that nature.
[36:48] Jade Brooks: That's, that's my way of showing hospitality and, obviously, opening up the home and making people know that you, you can come whenever and I might not always extend like say, hey, do you want to come over?
[36:59] Jade Brooks: You know I don't, I don't know why, I'm just not always Usually doing that, but I like to be for people to know you can invite yourself over and you know I don't mind.
[37:07] Jade Brooks: So yeah, this is an open home, it's open invitation over here.
[37:11] Allison Weeks: So yeah, that's good.
[37:14] Allison Weeks: How do you, how do you feel like Homemaking helps to build community?
[37:21] Jade Brooks: Yeah, I would definitely say just just the invitation.
[37:24] Jade Brooks: Like I said, inviting people is a way that you can build community.
[37:29] Jade Brooks: You know, if you see that mom at the park and Know that she she may be a stay-at-home mom or stay-at-home wife you can invite her over for coffee, get to know her and Meet, meet that person and that person may not even know the Lord and maybe you can spark up a conversation that may, you know, cause that person to want to be curious.
[37:49] Jade Brooks: So that's a way to meet different people is actually inviting them in your home.
[37:56] Allison Weeks: Mm-hmm, yeah, for sure I think.
[37:58] Allison Weeks: If you think about what the opposite of community is, it would be isolation.
[38:02] Allison Weeks: Yes, and that's something that particularly stay-at-home wives and moms have to fight against isolation and we tend to think well, I have these friends on social media, so I'm not isolated, but that's just not quite the same thing.
[38:17] Allison Weeks: So being out there, being, like you said, willing to just even be hospitable when you're not at home, like being in the park and striking up a conversation, whether or not you have the opportunity to invite them into your home, just being an open person and in a welcoming person wherever you go, I think is a great way to help pull people out of isolation, which is community.
[38:40] Jade Brooks: Yes.
[38:41] Allison Weeks: I agree, because we need it.
[38:43] Allison Weeks: We all need community.
[38:44] Allison Weeks: We really do.
[38:44] Allison Weeks: Okay, let's talk about some.
[38:47] Allison Weeks: I'm gonna give you some rapid-fire questions here, some Q&A, and you can give me a short answer.
[38:52] Allison Weeks: You can tell me a story, it's up to you.
[38:54] Jade Brooks: I would love to hear about your biggest homemaking fail so far so I make pancakes quite often and I found this nice little recipe on Pinterest that I have been using and I sorted into my phone and it was something that was pretty much using on repeat.
[39:12] Jade Brooks: For some reason, one particular time, I guess I wasn't looking closely at the ingredient and I kept putting Baking soda and the pancakes instead of baking powder.
[39:25] Jade Brooks: So my husband kept saying, like something about these tastes very like, it tastes like bacon's on.
[39:31] Jade Brooks: I'm like why can't?
[39:32] Jade Brooks: I'm doing the same thing I didn't add anymore.
[39:34] Jade Brooks: I didn't add any more to it and I did this like three times, three times I did it and finally I just looked at the recipe and I'm like, oh my god, it says bacon powder, not bacon soda.
[39:45] Jade Brooks: And I finally said when, once I realized the mistake that I kept making, I said to him I was like, yeah, babe, I realized the issue with the pancakes.
[39:54] Jade Brooks: I kept putting baking soda.
[39:55] Jade Brooks: He was like, yeah, I Something so, yeah, that definitely was a fail.
[40:00] Jade Brooks: That was a fail.
[40:04] Allison Weeks: It's an easy mistake to make.
[40:05] Allison Weeks: We do want to own up to our mistakes, I guess.
[40:10] Allison Weeks: Okay, let's talk about a win.
[40:13] Allison Weeks: What's a?
[40:13] Allison Weeks: What's a recent homemaking win that you're proud of?
[40:16] Jade Brooks: So this may seem a little odd or weird, but we just moved into this new home and the laundry, the Washer and dryer, is a little it's.
[40:28] Jade Brooks: It needs to be replaced.
[40:30] Jade Brooks: Let me just say that it needs to be replaced, so we haven't used it, so we've been going, like, to the laundry mat.
[40:35] Jade Brooks: My win is that I actually suggest successfully went to the laundry net and did it without help, and that was something I really had anxiety about, because the only time I really recall doing like Laundry out of the home was at college and it's like I just didn't remember what to do.
[40:53] Jade Brooks: But yeah, it was ridiculous and I'm like I am almost 30 years old and I don't even know what to do at the laundry mat.
[41:00] Jade Brooks: But I got it, I figured it out and it was successful, so that's my Job, that's awesome.
[41:06] Allison Weeks: That's awesome.
[41:07] Allison Weeks: So how about a homemaking product or resource that you are loving right now?
[41:12] Jade Brooks: My griddle, my griddle.
[41:14] Jade Brooks: You know, that is right.
[41:15] Allison Weeks: Yeah, so it's like a flat top griddle that you plug in.
[41:18] Jade Brooks: Yes.
[41:20] Jade Brooks: Yes, that is my go-to because, like I said, with the pancakes that I do and we make, well, I make turkey bacon for us pretty much every morning.
[41:28] Jade Brooks: That's like a morning staple that we gotta gotta have.
[41:31] Jade Brooks: So I kept working harder and Not using it for a while until I realized, like why am I not utilizing this griddle?
[41:40] Jade Brooks: Because I kept Just individually putting like four pieces of bacon on the pan and instead of just putting the whole pack On the pan at once and then storing the rest of the turkey bacon later.
[41:52] Jade Brooks: But, yeah, I have realized that I need to use this thing.
[41:55] Jade Brooks: So, yeah, pretty much just stays on my counter now, because I usually pretty much every day.
[42:01] Allison Weeks: Yeah, so that's a really great tool and they're not very expensive and you can get them pretty much anywhere like.
[42:06] Allison Weeks: Walmart, I think my grocery store even carries them, and they are great for doing like pancakes because you can do a bunch at a time.
[42:14] Allison Weeks: You can fit like maybe five or depending on how big you make your pancakes.
[42:18] Allison Weeks: Yes, on, instead of doing them Like one at a time and the skillet that takes forever.
[42:23] Jade Brooks: Exactly am I tortillas.
[42:25] Jade Brooks: I do that on there now and it's just yeah, it's just a lifesaver, it's just like great, that's a really that's a really good product.
[42:32] Allison Weeks: Thank you for sharing.
[42:33] Allison Weeks: Okay, give me your favorite homemaking hack or tip.
[42:38] Jade Brooks: Getting dressed every day is my homemaking tip, because I feel like for women like me who are here full-time and they don't have like a part-time job or anything like that, you can easily get into the rut of not getting dressed because you feel like you don't have anywhere to go.
[42:55] Jade Brooks: But for me personally I feel good and I feel more accomplished if I actually Put on a nice dress or you know, and get myself my hair, do my hair and things.
[43:06] Jade Brooks: I feel like that can make you feel more productive for the day if you actually put in that practice.
[43:11] Jade Brooks: And Some women may feel like I don't want to waste you know my clothes if I know I'm not gonna go anywhere.
[43:17] Jade Brooks: So another tip in that is that get a couple health stresses dresses that you know you may not wear outside and just get like two or three and just wear those you know.
[43:27] Jade Brooks: But just try not to fall into the habit of like sweatpants and you know your pajamas all day.
[43:31] Jade Brooks: Just just get dressed.
[43:34] Allison Weeks: Yeah, that's a really great tip.
[43:35] Allison Weeks: I completely agree.
[43:37] Allison Weeks: Put on, put on a little bit of makeup, put something decent on.
[43:45] Allison Weeks: What's your favorite, what's your goat?
[43:48] Allison Weeks: You said you like you wear a lot of dresses, don't you?
[43:50] Allison Weeks: Yes, I do.
[43:51] Allison Weeks: Yeah, what's your.
[43:52] Allison Weeks: What's your favorite resource Like where do you find your best dresses?
[43:56] Jade Brooks: my husband is going to get me for this, but I Like to shop at sheen online.
[44:02] Jade Brooks: He dislikes it because the cold.
[44:05] Jade Brooks: The clothes are cheap.
[44:06] Jade Brooks: I will say they're cheap but they're easy and I can rely on them.
[44:10] Jade Brooks: They're cute but he doesn't like them because he feels like like my zippers gonna rip for what they have in the past.
[44:16] Allison Weeks: They'll rip and you know.
[44:17] Jade Brooks: Just to end up, replacing them a couple weeks after I got them.
[44:21] Jade Brooks: But I really that's easy for me and you know, because I only wear dresses and like skirts, so it's not so many other places I can really go, and then you know, we're not always gonna go like oh, maybe.
[44:34] Jade Brooks: And not that I don't like them, I think they're great.
[44:37] Jade Brooks: But you know, it's just, it's just easier.
[44:41] Allison Weeks: It's just easy, yeah, so yeah, it is hard.
[44:44] Allison Weeks: I think it's hard to find a good source for dress, for good dresses, for the modest dresses, and Exactly ones that fit like.
[44:51] Allison Weeks: I've got a much smaller upper body than a lower like my.
[44:54] Allison Weeks: You know I'm very pear shaped.
[44:56] Allison Weeks: Me too A lot of times I'll go to the store and the dresses are all like straight and I'm not gonna work for me, so when I find a good resource, I stick with it.
[45:06] Allison Weeks: So Anyway okay, how about your signature dish?
[45:12] Jade Brooks: Oh, you know, this is what I want to become my signature dish.
[45:16] Jade Brooks: I don't think that I perfect.
[45:19] Allison Weeks: All of that, what are you working towards?
[45:21] Jade Brooks: working towards fried chicken, yams and collard greens.
[45:26] Jade Brooks: I love soul food, so I'm really, I'm really hoping for that to be my signature dish when people come over.
[45:33] Jade Brooks: I can make you that and you can make that the best meal you ever tasted in your life.
[45:38] Jade Brooks: So, but yeah, I'm still working on this good, but I don't know if I'm there yet for it to be my signature, so to speak.
[45:47] Allison Weeks: Okay, so I've never been able to get fried chicken down.
[45:50] Allison Weeks: I just can't do it.
[45:53] Allison Weeks: I don't know what it is, I don't have the gene.
[45:54] Allison Weeks: My mother-in-law makes amazing fried chicken.
[45:57] Allison Weeks: I just can't do it.
[45:59] Allison Weeks: I got collards down, though I can do collards and I don't know if you saw.
[46:04] Allison Weeks: I posted a reel a little while.
[46:05] Allison Weeks: Like, I always make them on New Year's Definitely, and then I make them a couple, you know, a few more times throughout the year, but I make them in the instant pot.
[46:12] Allison Weeks: Now, oh wow, I don't know if you, if you've, if you have one, if you've ever tried that, because I like him to be real tender.
[46:20] Allison Weeks: Me too, me too, you know, I don't want, because it just helps them digest easier.
[46:25] Allison Weeks: But Um, the but I don't want to be cooking them like forever, and so when you do them in the instant pot, they cook really fast but they're really tender.
[46:34] Allison Weeks: So, hmm, there's a hot tip for you, okay.
[46:37] Jade Brooks: Okay, yeah.
[46:40] Allison Weeks: So how do you do your yams?
[46:41] Allison Weeks: What do you do with your?
[46:43] Jade Brooks: So, yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to try what you try, because I don't have an end.
[46:47] Jade Brooks: I don't have an instant pot, only have a what's called a crop pot.
[46:51] Jade Brooks: So can you do the same thing in the crop pot?
[46:53] Allison Weeks: You say I mean you could definitely cook them in your crock pot.
[46:55] Allison Weeks: It's just gonna take longer.
[46:57] Allison Weeks: That Cook them in the crock pot would be hands-off.
[46:59] Allison Weeks: But because the instant pot is a pressure cooker, so it's the pressure that it's it causes, it tenderizes them really fast.
[47:07] Jade Brooks: Okay, yeah.
[47:09] Allison Weeks: So that's why it it's so much faster and you get the same result as a real long cook on the stove.
[47:14] Allison Weeks: But you could do them in your crock pot if you just want to like.
[47:17] Allison Weeks: Start them and forget about them for sure you could do that?
[47:20] Jade Brooks: Yeah, because what?
[47:21] Jade Brooks: What I do now is I will Boil them for a long time until they get nice and soft, and then I'll cut them up and then add some butter, had some sugar, add some Vanilla and cinnamon, and then put them in the oven for about 40 minutes.
[47:38] Jade Brooks: Oh wait, are we talking about?
[47:41] Allison Weeks: yams.
[47:41] Allison Weeks: We're talking about yams.
[47:42] Jade Brooks: Candid yams.
[47:43] Allison Weeks: That's what you do for your yams.
[47:44] Allison Weeks: Okay, I was still on.
[47:46] Allison Weeks: I was still on color green.
[47:47] Jade Brooks: Oh, I was on like color green.
[47:53] Jade Brooks: Oh my God, okay.
[47:57] Allison Weeks: Okay, we're on two different subjects.
[47:59] Allison Weeks: You're probably like what is she talking about?
[48:02] Allison Weeks: Cooking yams?
[48:02] Allison Weeks: No, I don't know.
[48:03] Jade Brooks: I just, I just went for it.
[48:05] Jade Brooks: I was like maybe that works, I don't know.
[48:07] Allison Weeks: I think well, I think actually you can't, because a yam is just it's like a sweet potato, right, yeah, yeah, and so I think you can't cook those in this, but anyway, okay.
[48:17] Allison Weeks: So color greens is how well.
[48:19] Allison Weeks: That's what I do in the Instant Pot, but your yams you're, so you're boiling them and then you cut them up, Mm-hmm.
[48:27] Jade Brooks: And then what do you do?
[48:28] Jade Brooks: Then I'll put them in a pan and then I'll make like a sugary buttery mixture and cinnamon and vanilla and then pour that on top and then put them in the oven for about 40 minutes.
[48:40] Allison Weeks: Okay, yeah, that sounds delicious, it is.
[48:42] Allison Weeks: When you said vanilla, that's what I was like.
[48:46] Allison Weeks: Wait a minute, we're not talking about color greens, okay.
[48:49] Jade Brooks: It's like vanilla.
[48:52] Allison Weeks: Now my husband's grandmother would put and so I do this too she would put she did this in her cabbage and in her colored greens she would put like a little bit of molasses or cane syrup, mm-hmm, just a little, because it helps, like, cut some of the bitterness, okay, of the greens.
[49:14] Allison Weeks: Oh, so anyway, I do that, but that's it.
[49:17] Allison Weeks: You know, I'm not putting vanilla in my colored greens.
[49:19] Allison Weeks: Okay, oh Lord, all right.
[49:23] Allison Weeks: Well, I hope that you just keep practicing and keep practicing and then you get that signature dish down Mm-hmm.
[49:30] Allison Weeks: Let's talk about the art of home a little bit, mm-hmm.
[49:33] Allison Weeks: So how do you see homemaking as an art and where are you finding beauty in your art of homemaking?
[49:43] Jade Brooks: I feel like home, again, is an art because it looks different for everybody.
[49:47] Jade Brooks: And I was really.
[49:48] Jade Brooks: I was really even thinking that when you were talking about your two relatives that live next to each other and you saw how things were different.
[49:57] Jade Brooks: That's good and I love.
[49:59] Jade Brooks: That about homemaking is that everybody's not going to do it the same and it's not like a one size fits all type of or deal.
[50:06] Jade Brooks: You know, everybody has different tips, everybody has different routines and rhythms that maybe some of us can bounce off of and you know, taking some things may not work for other people, and that's just.
[50:18] Jade Brooks: That's what I find is just the beauty of is every home is going to look different.
[50:22] Jade Brooks: Yeah, so, yeah, I think that's beautiful, but what was the other part?
[50:27] Jade Brooks: How do I find beauty?
[50:30] Allison Weeks: Yeah, just what's something that you maybe in one of your I think I know what you're going to say but like what it's not.
[50:38] Allison Weeks: Like what's your favorite homemaking tasks, but what's something that you just love about homemaking that you think is just lovely and beautiful.
[50:46] Jade Brooks: Something I think, I think, I think just watching everybody in my home get to benefit from it, if that makes sense, I think.
[50:57] Allison Weeks: I like that.
[50:58] Jade Brooks: Yeah, I think that's always been.
[51:00] Jade Brooks: The beautiful part for me is like those days when you just feel like you're doing the same old thing every old day, every other day and things like that.
[51:09] Jade Brooks: It's just like, okay, you know when you get tired, but when you can see your family being blessed by the fact that you're home and love the fact that you're home, and they understand the blessing of you being home, I feel like that's the beauty of it for me.
[51:24] Allison Weeks: Yeah, no, that's great.
[51:25] Allison Weeks: I love that perspective.
[51:26] Allison Weeks: So what's something about homemaking that you're thankful for?
[51:31] Jade Brooks: Hmm, what's something about homemaking that I'm thankful for?
[51:36] Allison Weeks: It can be something practical too, like your washing machine or something like that.
[51:39] Allison Weeks: Well, no, because you're having to go to the laundry mat.
[51:44] Jade Brooks: The laundry mat and laws.
[51:46] Jade Brooks: Yes, let me see what I put down here.
[51:50] Jade Brooks: Something I'm definitely thankful for is the availability that I have and just in case, like I don't know if I ever mentioned this or if you ever seen it on my story, but I actually was my sister's babysitter all last year.
[52:06] Allison Weeks: She uh yeah, she works.
[52:08] Allison Weeks: I saw the babies.
[52:09] Jade Brooks: Yes, so those were nephews yeah.
[52:12] Jade Brooks: My nephew.
[52:14] Allison Weeks: Your nephew Okay.
[52:15] Jade Brooks: So my sister had the baby and I had him from four months to till he was like a year old and when we moved here.
[52:22] Jade Brooks: That's the only reason, pretty much, why I'm not babysitting him now I'm a little bit too far.
[52:26] Jade Brooks: But yeah, I feel like that was a blessing for me to have that availability, because had I not been home, she probably would have been putting him in daycare otherwise.
[52:36] Jade Brooks: So it's just good to be available for stuff like that and to have my family to have easy access for to me and that I'm not here, there and everywhere I'm home.
[52:46] Jade Brooks: So, yeah, if you need something, you know I'm here.
[52:49] Jade Brooks: If you need somebody to go to a kids meeting, I'm here, I can, I'm available, you know, cause my husband has more, you know, and I don't, I don't.
[52:57] Jade Brooks: Yeah.
[52:58] Jade Brooks: I can be there for those things.
[52:59] Allison Weeks: So yeah, I love that.
[53:01] Allison Weeks: I love that answer.
[53:02] Allison Weeks: That's one of my favorite things about home making that I'm so thankful for, especially, you know, now that you've got these two boys in your house and you know, lord willing, other children come into the home, it's so nice to be able to just drop what you're doing and pick up a sick kid or break, drop off.
[53:19] Allison Weeks: I forgot my English paper, or I forgot my lunch, or whatever.
[53:25] Allison Weeks: Just to be able to, to be there for those things and to be there for friends and family too, is is really it's a really a privilege and I'm really grateful for it.
[53:33] Allison Weeks: Yeah, Well, let's talk a little bit to the younger women and the older women.
[53:39] Allison Weeks: Well, let's see, yeah, we can talk to both, okay, so how?
[53:43] Allison Weeks: Let's first let's talk to the older women.
[53:45] Allison Weeks: Okay, how can the older women help your generation of home makers thrive in their experience and practice of the art of home?
[53:55] Allison Weeks: What do you want them to know about your experience?
[53:57] Allison Weeks: How can they help you?
[53:59] Jade Brooks: I think that for me personally, with the things that my family and I currently have going on, I I think I would just like to hear, like an older woman just give her wisdom.
[54:11] Jade Brooks: I think that those are some of the key things.
[54:14] Jade Brooks: That from those older ladies is just hearing their feedback and things of that nature is just something that is always helpful is what is your advice, what is your take and what not necessarily always what would you do type of thing, but just soundness.
[54:33] Jade Brooks: I think that's mainly what I'm going for is the soundness.
[54:37] Jade Brooks: And of course, we can always talk to our friends, but sometimes it's not always the best thing because they're going through current things too.
[54:44] Jade Brooks: You know what I mean, and it's different when you've been there, done that, you may have other situations that can give somebody that they can allow to be poured into.
[54:57] Jade Brooks: So for me personally, I just I think that I just wish that there were more older women that I could talk to.
[55:03] Jade Brooks: You know, I still have my maternal grandmother.
[55:06] Jade Brooks: She's still living, but she's not always that accessible because we're a little bit further now.
[55:12] Jade Brooks: But, um, yeah, I just feel like that's just something I wish I had in my life.
[55:17] Jade Brooks: It's just more older women to really glean from right now more godly women to Heaven is an example and that honor, that work of being home, and don't really see it as unnecessary, because I've come across that a lot is some older women who just do not get it in.
[55:35] Jade Brooks: I've had an older woman even say to me before like oh, what do you do?
[55:38] Jade Brooks: When I said I'm a homemaker, and well, what do you do at home?
[55:41] Jade Brooks: I, you know, I cook, I clean, I organize, and they're like it takes, it takes you staying home to do All that.
[55:47] Jade Brooks: That's literally what a woman said to me before and I'm like, oh, I was Just like I'm fortunate that not all women get it, you know.
[55:57] Jade Brooks: So I think I just would want to meet all older women that can give that it that good advice and just understand this work.
[56:06] Allison Weeks: Yeah, yeah, okay.
[56:08] Allison Weeks: What about to the younger women coming behind you?
[56:10] Allison Weeks: What would you tell them?
[56:11] Allison Weeks: Advise them, maybe to avoid, or just encourage them?
[56:16] Allison Weeks: What would you say to encourage them?
[56:19] Jade Brooks: um, I would encourage them to.
[56:21] Jade Brooks: If you want to be a homemaker, because I've come across this a lot with some women like, oh, I see what you do, I really always wanted to do that.
[56:29] Jade Brooks: I think one important thing as a homemaker to know your why.
[56:32] Jade Brooks: Why are you home?
[56:33] Jade Brooks: Why is it essential for you to be home?
[56:35] Jade Brooks: Because in some, some families, it may not always be Something that is needful, you know it may or even, um, feasible, but you just want to do it because you see it and it looks good.
[56:46] Jade Brooks: You know what I mean.
[56:47] Jade Brooks: So it's like, yeah, certain situations it may hurt your family to have you staying home, because you might be, it may be necessary for you to work.
[56:55] Jade Brooks: Maybe your income, you know, may not be, you know, enable you to do that, and you know, and we're thankful for that.
[57:01] Jade Brooks: But so I think that that is very important to understand your family, their needs and the why behind it.
[57:08] Jade Brooks: Because if it is just because it's something that may look appealing to you, you may want to really check that.
[57:14] Jade Brooks: But Homemaking is definitely something that is in the heart, so you really need your heart to be centered in the right place in order to do it the way God is really going to have his hand on it, for him to be glorified and for your home to have the fruit that it needs.
[57:30] Allison Weeks: Mmm.
[57:30] Allison Weeks: Yeah, that's.
[57:31] Allison Weeks: I love that, that it's really coming from the heart and you need to know what where your heart is Exactly.
[57:36] Allison Weeks: Yeah, that's really good.
[57:37] Allison Weeks: Well, you are.
[57:40] Allison Weeks: I want to just tell people a little bit about your, where they can find you online and your Bible study ministry.
[57:46] Allison Weeks: So what won't you tell us a little bit about that?
[57:49] Jade Brooks: The Bible study ministry.
[57:50] Jade Brooks: Yeah, oh, yes.
[57:51] Jade Brooks: So, as I said in beginning, yes, I am a women's Bible study teacher.
[57:56] Jade Brooks: I lead but weekly Friday Bible studies via zoom at 7 pm.
[58:02] Jade Brooks: That's actually something I've been doing for three years now.
[58:04] Jade Brooks: It's now August and I just cannot believe it.
[58:07] Jade Brooks: It definitely started off a little rough, but God has had his hand on the ministry and it definitely Was not something that I ever would have saw myself doing five years before this, just not at all.
[58:23] Jade Brooks: You know I I got saved in 2015 and I honestly just thought that I was gonna just be that.
[58:29] Jade Brooks: You know, never, never, never, saying anything much about God's word, just knowing Jesus is real and that's about it.
[58:35] Jade Brooks: So it's just, it's just amazing what God has done and it's definitely a blessing for the women who have come on, in, a blessing for me.
[58:43] Jade Brooks: So it's an open thing.
[58:45] Jade Brooks: So usually, when women want to get on, I usually can send them a zoom link and they can get on and If they have certain I have a girl, that's where's she from?
[58:56] Jade Brooks: She's.
[58:57] Jade Brooks: She's not on the same timeframe as me, but it's still something that you can work around with whatever time for you.
[59:04] Allison Weeks: But yeah, it's an open thing and like I said, it's open is open week to week.
[59:09] Allison Weeks: Can you hop on, like, can you hop on, you know, maybe one week but not the next week, or is it more like you go like 12 weeks at a time or something like that?
[59:17] Jade Brooks: Yeah, so it's open week to week.
[59:18] Jade Brooks: So it's like, say, say, this Friday a lady couldn't get on, that's fine, you know, she could hop on the next Friday.
[59:25] Jade Brooks: Or say, or I even have some women that just really just can't be that consistent.
[59:29] Jade Brooks: And they always let me know like, listen, I have a lot of work to do this week, I can't, can't really make it, but she, she's always available to able to come on whenever she can get on.
[59:40] Jade Brooks: And we have this book that we follow.
[59:43] Jade Brooks: It's called she Speaks, so it's just women in the Bible that we focus on and we read about and we talk about it and have that open discussion and prayer about it.
[59:52] Jade Brooks: So, yeah, it's not like a book where you have to read it like in chronological order.
[59:57] Jade Brooks: So, whatever woman a week, you know you jump in for that woman and you get the lesson so yeah, that's cool.
[1:00:03] Allison Weeks: So is it something that that they would do the lesson ahead of time and then you'd have a discussion, or can they just is it like to?
[1:00:09] Allison Weeks: Is there homework?
[1:00:09] Allison Weeks: I guess that's what I'm asking.
[1:00:11] Jade Brooks: No, so usually the the certain ladies that get on like weekly, I have like a little chat.
[1:00:17] Jade Brooks: I have a little chat where I will send them the lesson.
[1:00:20] Jade Brooks: I don't really think that anybody reads it ahead of time.
[1:00:22] Jade Brooks: I always do because I'm leading it out, but we read the actual text at the meeting.
[1:00:28] Jade Brooks: So so you wouldn't be missing anything if you didn't read it ahead of time, because we're always gonna read it on there.
[1:00:34] Jade Brooks: So even if, like say, a lady wanted I met her on IG, she wanted to get on and didn't have access to it she could read it while we're on the study that night.
[1:00:45] Allison Weeks: Okay, that's awesome.
[1:00:46] Allison Weeks: So that's every Friday night, yes, seven o'clock, and are you East?
[1:00:50] Allison Weeks: Are you Eastern time or central time?
[1:00:51] Allison Weeks: Eastern, your Eastern?
[1:00:53] Allison Weeks: Okay, all right.
[1:00:54] Allison Weeks: Well, that's cool.
[1:00:55] Allison Weeks: So where can people find you?
[1:00:57] Allison Weeks: How can they get connected with you online?
[1:01:00] Jade Brooks: So I am on Instagram under the modest homemaker, I'm also on YouTube under the modest homemaker, and and my um, you might have to send, put my links in my blog down below, because it says like go daddy, and I don't.
[1:01:14] Jade Brooks: I don't even know the order of that, but yeah, I do have a blog as well that Allison can link down below.
[1:01:21] Allison Weeks: Yes, I will do that.
[1:01:21] Allison Weeks: So, and if they want to connect with you to get in your Bible study, they should maybe message you on Instagram.
[1:01:26] Allison Weeks: Is that the best thing to do?
[1:01:27] Jade Brooks: Yes, yes okay.
[1:01:29] Allison Weeks: All right, so we'll make sure we have all your links down in the description box.
[1:01:32] Allison Weeks: Well, jade, this has been so fun, thank you so much.
[1:01:37] Jade Brooks: Yes, no problem, thank you for having me.
[1:01:40] Allison Weeks: You're welcome.
[1:01:40] Allison Weeks: I've loved getting to hear your story.
[1:01:42] Allison Weeks: Can't wait to share it with the world.
[1:01:44] Allison Weeks: Yes, take care Bye.
[1:01:46] Jade Brooks: Bye.
[1:01:49] Allison Weeks: Thank you for listening to this homemaker portrait of Jade Brooks.
[1:01:52] Allison Weeks: I hope that you have been inspired and encouraged by Jade's story of home and that you found some nugget of truth or wisdom or something that you had not maybe thought about before, to mull over and to take with you from this episode and apply in your own way in your own homemaking journey.
[1:02:09] Allison Weeks: One of my top takeaways from my conversation with Jade was when I asked her what she was thankful for about homemaking and she said the availability I have to help others.
[1:02:20] Allison Weeks: My family has easy access to me.
[1:02:23] Allison Weeks: If they need something, I'm here and I can help.
[1:02:26] Allison Weeks: I just I love that we talked about that.
[1:02:29] Allison Weeks: I shared, how you know, when my kids were still at home and I had enough flexibility in my schedule that if I needed to drop everything and go Deliver something to them or go pick them up or be be there for an event at school or whatever the case, I had that flexibility.
[1:02:48] Allison Weeks: I had more flexibility than I would have had if I had been working outside the home, not to mention different ways that I'm able to serve and help my husband.
[1:02:56] Allison Weeks: I mean, there's been several times where he's had an emergency and he needed me to come pick him up and take him to the Truck dealership so his because his truck broke down or you know, he forgot his lunch and I was able to drive over and bring it to him or maybe even just meet him for lunch.
[1:03:11] Allison Weeks: It does require some planning on my part.
[1:03:14] Allison Weeks: We do have to think ahead and we have to have some sort of structure in place so that we can move things around and we don't drop too many balls by just constantly, you know, running out the door to go, be available and do something for somebody else.
[1:03:27] Allison Weeks: I feel like you actually have more availability in your schedule and more, more margin if you Manage your time well, and that's a topic that we are going to be addressing in-depth.
[1:03:39] Allison Weeks: At the beginning of the year.
[1:03:40] Allison Weeks: I'm going to be having the deep dive on our third pillar of homemaking.
[1:03:44] Allison Weeks: Yes, I have not forgotten about the pillar of homemaking series.
[1:03:48] Allison Weeks: We're going to be talking about rhythms and routines and how we can develop healthy routines and how we can be flexible with those routines and our homemaking and how that actually frees us up to be more available for the things that God is calling us to do, whether that, you know, big scale Dreams and goals and visions, or if it's our availability, like what Jade and I talked about today.
[1:04:12] Allison Weeks: So be looking for that at the beginning of next year.
[1:04:15] Allison Weeks: Don't forget that if you would like any of the extras that Jade and I talked about, like her favorites, her resources, her yam Recipe and then, of course, all the links to get in touch with Jade, the best place to get that information is in the weekly newsletter homemaker happy mail that will go out First thing Friday morning.
[1:04:34] Allison Weeks: So don't wait right now.
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[1:04:46] Allison Weeks: We will have links in the description box that link you directly with jade's YouTube channel and her Instagram so that you can get in touch with her if you want to sign up for her Friday Bible study.
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[1:06:23] Allison Weeks: Dot-com slash the art of home.
[1:06:25] Allison Weeks: Well, that is it for this week's episode of the art of home podcast.
[1:06:30] Allison Weeks: I will be back next Wednesday with a brand new homemaker portrait.
[1:06:34] Allison Weeks: Until then, keep practicing your art of making a home.

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