#keeper of the home

[simplelifeofacountrywife]

I HATE CLEANING! (I have a solution for you.)

Guess what? I don't like cleaning. I bet many of you don't either. There's a way to clean your house and not hate it so much. Maybe at least tolerate it.

[idoodlestuffsometimes]

I need to share how the IT guy at work greeted my department on CrowdStrike Blue Screen Friday. Never have I seen a man so shocked by the sight of perfectly functional computers

(They were off during the update)

[happy2bmyownboss]

Tax Time!

It’s the time of year when a lot of people are getting their taxes completed and some have started receiving their refunds… and some may be paying in a bit. There is always a question of where to best spend that extra money… if you were on the receiving end. While this is an older post a lot of the information still applies and I thought I’d share it again just in case someone might’ve needed…

[idyllicdomesticity]

Joy Thieving

Do I compare myself to others? What does that exactly look like?

Last night I was talking to some friends after church and we were sharing the ways we were all struggling. We are united under the banner of Mothers with Young Children. We each also share a common desire to be. on. top. of. EVERYTHING. The pressure, much of it self-induced, to have our lives together, is great. But praise the Lord we are each on a walk with Him to grow in our faith. That said, I made a passing comment while bemoaning my most difficult task - meal planning. I said to my friend "L" "... and these women on YouTube have these video's where they're like, 'here's how I meal plan for a whole month in 15 minutes!'" L quickly threw in "Oh girl, don't compare yourself to them, if that woman really does that she is probably a grouch to her family half the time or feeding them crap food."

I don't compare myself to others, I thought. Then I made some quip and the conversation went on. Later though, as my husband and I buckled our girls in the van, I kept going over L's admonition. It so happened that my mother made a similar remark to me a few weeks prior. While I was (again) bemoaning my struggles with all the plates I felt I was supposed to be spinning, my mother asked if I was doing these things because I actually needed to or if it was because I thought I needed to. Was I doing all these things because others were doing them? Of course I told my mother no, I wasn't susceptible to such childish behavior.

On the drive home my husband stopped for gas and I took a moment to think. Sure, I watch a lot of YouTube, but it's all for inspirational purpose. And yeah, when I watch certain videos there I get a sense of longing, but it's because I want to build that sort of life for myself. I am a sucker for beautiful homes and gardens and sometimes the beauty is so overwhelming it hurts. But that's normal, right?

But what about the How-To videos? What about that particular video of the mom with 6 kids and a farm who has a printed monthly calendar with a rotational schedule of proteins so her family hits all the major food groups for dinner each week of the month? What about when I walk away from that saying to myself, "Sarah, she has 6 children and manages to get dinner on the table every night. You have 2 and can't get through breakfast. Stop being such a disappointment and get your act together."? Is that comparison?

My husband got back in the car and the thoughts escaped me until this morning. Monday, the eternal day of "Get Your Act Together", has returned and I am again tempted to go through the same act of looking at AAAaaaaLLlllll the things I have to and to sit at my day planner and fill each day with a million things, so that maybe, by this Friday, I will have "done all the things" and then I can feel good about myself. Oh and we are supposed to start homeschool this week too so add that to the pile. (Homeschool is deserving of its own post.)

All the things. It is not just what I am doing, but how and when I do them. I am supposed to get up at 5am, have quiet time, put on my make up, make breakfast, pack a lunch, do the dishes, tend to the girls, do my chores, get to the store,... it never ends. And if I don't do the things when I think I should then throw the whole day away and the baby out with the bathwater because everything has failed and thus I am a failure.

Or maybe I am struggling under a weight I wasn't supposed to carry. I am not saying I shouldn't have to do my duties as a wife and mother. But maybe I am carrying them incorrectly. Maybe, rather than looking out there and forcing others' ideas in, I should be looking only after my own flock and shaping my "supposed to's" around their rhythm. I won't go into all the ways that might look, but I will say that many thing immediately come to mind.

Yes, I suppose I do compare myself to others. And it looks like nothing is good enough.

[ribbononline]

Hoenn crossing, or something

[ask-observer-wally]

who else?

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keeper!poppy - @ariki_faerieworld

nightstuck!wally - @bunnyspine

Reboot!wally - @BloodredIscream

Coraline!wally - @kylee_dottavioartist

lorekeeper!wally - @Erien_cchi

Actor!wally - @/ frillsand - tiktok

Royalty!wally - mine

Opposite wally - @/HENNEY - tiktok

Watcher!wally - @deadlyeyez_

Sports! wally - @koko_iep

Devil!wally - @Nic0Rat

all on tiktok

[yeyinde]

no honestly the worst part of trying to cannibalise simon would be that i know his freak ass is so into it. you bite him as a joke and he’s grabbing the back of your head and pushing it into his arm harder to make the imprints of your teeth deeper. he goes to work and johnny asks him why the fuck it looks like he was fighting zombies from the last of us and simon’s like i have a pup at home who’s teething. and he’s soooo mean about biting you back, he makes them bruise and then flicks them when they hurt just to be mean :( he matches my freak in my head sorry

don't apologise. this is. everything to me, actually. because a pup at home that's teething???? ahhhh i'm gonna be sick!!!!!! 😭 the way he'd look at you too. when his eyes get all flat and dark, heavy lidded. he's amused, yeah, but you've done something here. woke something up.

his little "bite harder, birdie. lets leave a scar" all low and brassy would send me over the edge. makes a game of it to see how many scars you can leave. and him being aggressive with you too is just perfect. keeps biting the same spot over and over again until you can feel the indents of his teeth long after it's healed over. something to remind you of him, he says, and you give up mentioning normal things, like jewellery or trinkets because you like seeing your teeth marks on the side of his neck a little too much to keep pretending.

but it's all fun and games until he takes your ring finger into maw and bites down right at the last knuckle. it's only when he does the same with his, pushing it into your mouth with a heavy gaze and purring out a deceptively calm, even now bite me birdie, that you realise what it means.

[waining-crescent-moon]

forever bitter about the timing of vesperas death like what do you mean we didn’t get a biana vespera rematch? what do you mean we didn’t get vespera talking about numbness to keefe?? what do you mean we didn’t get a vespera and grady talk about ruthless???

[milo-igidk]

the fucking way cassius has THREE different living spaces away from his house DUDE GO HOME RAISE YOUR SON WHAT THE FUCK

[chainlxnk]

I usually suck at effects, this might be one of those times

[deuynndoodles]

[ID: A colored, digital two page comic featuring Danny and Jazz from Danny Phantom. Danny wears a baggy hoodie over a shirt and jeans. Jazz wears a v-neck sweater and shorts.

Fentonworks, after curfew: Danny reaches for the doorknob to his bedroom, breathing out and gripping his shoulder.

"Where were you?" says Jazz, hands on her hips, making Danny jump. "Look, I know that Mom and Dad don't really care, but I do. You can trust me." She looks sad. "What's going on with you?"

"None of your business, Jazz." He looks irritated. He reaches for the doorknob again, muttering, "Just lemme sleep."

"Wait!" is written in all caps. Jazz reaches out, pulling at the hood of his jacket. Danny turns and raises his arm out of his hoodie, revealing an ectoplasmic injury. "Fuck off!" he yells.

Jazz pulls her hand away, startling backwards. Then, she looks sad as she says, "Oh, Danny…"

Fade out. They now stand in the Fentonworks bathroom, with Danny sitting on the toilet and Jazz hovering over him, cleaning a wound on his left shoulder. He's now in a binder and the original ectoplasmic wound has been treated. She scolds him and he grins nervously, curling in on himself. End ID.]

happy holidays @torscrawls !

[nyx-isaway]

I own a pyromancy flame for home defense, like the witches of izalith intended. Four invaders break into my castle. “What the devil?” As I grab my sage’s blindfold and fire orb. Burn a titanite chunk-sized hole in the first man. He’s dead on the spot. Cast my black flame on the second man. Misses him entirely cause the tracking sucks and nails the neighbours wolf. I have to resort to the chaos bed vestiges from the top of the ramparts. “Tally ho lads!” The flames shred two men in the blast. The aoe sets off traps in surrounding homes. Draw chaos dagger and charge the last terrified hollow cause I’m out of fp. He dies while trying to black crystal out cause the hit box is janked. Just as the witches intended.

[wrathofachilleus]

rome in november

[happy2bmyownboss]

Put your Meal Planning on Auto-Pilot with the Perpetual Meal Plan for Winter - FREE Printables!

Yay! I did it… my first big project of the year. I actually finished the Meal Plan that I’ve been working on and I wanted to share it with you. I know it’s not perfect and I’m sure there will be some changes made to it but it’s a place to start and I’m happy with that. These were inspired by The Dinner Calendar written by Fannie Merritt Farmer in 1915 but they have some modern recipes, most of…

[clownsuu]

Can either of your Wallys--Human or puppet, sense if someone is afraid? 'Cause I'm terrified...of them both, I mean.

I'm 5'0", only two feet taller; and feel like they could still dropkick my dumbass. Gonna have to jump onto Howdy's shoulders like a scared cat to get out of range. (I love your art btw!)

I like to believe that Wally can just s m e l l fear, absolutely thrives in power knowing that nobody can really do anything about it as he basically plays them all in ruses of complete ignorance- although he too is a victim, he cannot help toying amongst the prey

I say as I draw him also being completely “no thoughts head literally empty” HDHDHDJDJ

[keeperthemultiversemom]

I feel like Keeper’s bow gets bigger every day, lol

It’s really cute! :]