Hearth & Helm

Normalize slower mornings with excellent read alouds and bonding with your children 🤍 So grateful to be able to homeschool my children. I cannot imagine how soul sucking public school would be for them.

Getting six quarts of chipotle beef in PC before 9:30AM 💪🏻. I was loading up the canner while my kids staggered out this morning. We can enjoy coffee/tea a breakfast, start some homeschooling—all while the PC does its thing. Every day I’m just tackling one small food prep project and whatever gets done gets done until baby decides to make their appearance. Canning does not have to be an all day ordeal. Small batch canning is what works best for me as a soon-to-be Mom of 4 who homeschools. Even if I get bulk produce or the garden is producing, I will tackle one small project a day until it’s all preserved. Often times I will prep everything the night before (do all my pealing/chopping) place it in the fridge and all I have to do the next morning is fill my jars. This will be nice to make burrito bowls with rice, tacos with the sourdough tortillas I put in the freezer last week, can open a jar of home canned dried beans and bone broth to make a soup, etc. for easy dinners in those postpartum weeks.

Looking for a guest for our upcoming homeschool episode! I have been homeschooling for over ten years, and Karissa has been for several years. We are doing an episode on homeschooling soon. If you are a homeschooler and would like to record with us, let us know! Dm the channel 📚

The garden is pumping out state fair winners. Peak summer 🌞

Keep an eye out for an upcoming childbirth episode! We will touch on these topics and much more.

Limit screen time as much as possible and my youngest comes back from preschool going "six seven, six seven, six seven" constantly because someone's rugrat is screened to death. 😩

10 more followers on the channel to make it to 100! 🎉 Once we reach 100, I think a giveaway is in order to celebrate!

Got a big comeback planned in August for the White Oak Creators Guild. We will be starting back up the monthly music streams and putting the King Arthur coloring book up for sale. Also we will be announcing some new projects such as a collaborative calender art project, another song contest and putting together an artist and creator index catalog. Lots of exciting things to stay tuned for, so be sure to give us a follow and help spread the word!

Guess what!!!?? We are recording our first episode (post hiatus) TONIGHT!!! That's right folks. As soon as the kids are put to bed, we are doing this! 👏🏼 So, tell us- do you have any burning questions or hot topics you want us to touch on? See ya soon!

Build your home library! The modern world is sick... AI is consuming and destroying millions of books. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/

JUST IN - Johnson & Johnson reaches a $5.5 billion settlement in the lawsuits that allege its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer. @disclosetv

IMAGINE MY SHOCK

These days with a house full of rowdy boys and a newborn baby girl, simply getting dinner on the table feels like a huge accomplishment, not gonna lie. 😂 Here's dinner in the Dye house tonight ⚡ Fried tortillas with a giant bowl of garden-fresh YUM aka salsa Quiche from our chicken eggs Beet and feta salad👌🏼

Children really teach us to slow down when we invite them into our world.

We recently accepted the invite to chat with the ladies of Return to Femininity, a podcast by Return to the Land. While there were a few technical difficulties, the discussion was RICH⚡ Thank you so much to Allison, Sally, Caitlyn, and RTTL for having us on the show to discuss motherhood, vanguard homemaking and femininity, homeschooling, and more: Telegram audio via Nationalist Audio on TG: https://t.me/nationalistaudiochat/2940 RTTL rumble: https://rumble.com/v7cxcte-hearth-and-helm-return-to-femininity-podcast.html

Top two cookbooks in our house. Highly recommend owning a copy of these. They're more than *just* cookbooks

...drove a few hours to visit a friend's house, talked late into the night over hard ciders, and ate the best chicken (sourdough!!??) pot pie-ever- while discussing all the important things ... There are few better things in life.

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is a common type of “weed” you tend to see out here and you can find it just about anywhere in the desert/ foothills. It is high in Omega 3’s and antioxidants, and you can toss it into things like salads, stir fries, soups and stews, and more! It can also be used in a similar fashion to how one would use aloe- as a poultice for minor burns, scrapes, or insect bites. I foraged some and turned it into a delicious peppery little pesto 😋 🍃 not disappointed! Threw it over some toast and butter, going to try over pasta later, maybe even throw it in an omelette tomorrow morning, who knows!