Mama Malkavian's House

The secret to knowing what to make for dinner at any time is a well-stocked pantry. Keep ingredients on hand for the same few meals that you like, especially things with really basic ingredients such as rice and pasta. Our pantry always holds  Pantry dried beans pasta spaghetti macaroni twists or other shapes rice ramen mac n cheese canned vegetables canned tuna cream of... soup cream of chicken, mushroom, golden mushroom flour sugar baking powder baking soda red pasta sauce Pioneer packet instant mashed potatoes Peanut butter loaf bread Freezer, fridge: chicken ground beef eggs milk  jelly sliced cheese sliced lunch meat stir fry vegetables Fruit & vegetables potatoes onion apples, bananas, oranges (rotating) Seasoning McCormick's spaghetti seasoning Pioneer gravy packet chicken stock and/or chicken bullion garlic powder onion powder paprika salt and pepper oregano Condiments mayonnaise sweet relish ketchup mustard barbeque sauce steak sauce Worcestershire sauce minced ga...

  Posted on  September 4, 2025  by  Alison Rushing The rough start When I was engaged to my husband, I knew part of being married meant having a home together. I planned to become domestic, considering I wasn’t already domestic, and put a lot of energy into it, leading up to getting married. I channeled my energy into my first blog at  The Domestication of the Running Rose – The Running Rose’s guide to getting crafty and growing up . After Lee and I got married, we found out that I wasn’t very domestically inclined. I remember making box meals and sweeping the floor in our first apartment. But I also remember spending too many hours watching  Pretty Little Liars.  I got so hooked on Netflix, I remember defending my habits, saying, “I don’t want to miss out.” Also, if you look at  The Domestication of the Running Rose , while I wanted to be “domestic,” I wasn’t really interested in homemaking. I am creative, I am an artist, and I chase a lot of cre...

Posted on  August 2, 2025  by  Alison Rushing When I first resolved to keep a better home, I knew I needed a change in my daily housework routine. My days were already disorganized, and clearly, I wasn’t doing what needed to be done with the way my house was looking. So, I wrote a list of all the chores I wanted to get done in a day, week, and month. When I made my first housework routine, I looked at several vintage and modern homemaking routines before making mine because I was starting from scratch; I didn’t even know what I should be doing with my house in a day.  Of course, any full day routine is an  ideal  day at home. There are going to be days when I run errands and go to my mom’s house, so I don’t commit to my all-day homemaking routine every single day of the week. I take off Sundays because I routinely spend that day out of the house with my family.  Sunday is my sabbath from work, house, and blog. I do a few things on Sunday to keep us out...

The first essential that a homemaker needs is a daily routine. When I made my first routine, I looked at several vintage and modern homemaking routines before making mine because I was starting from scratch; I didn't even know what I should be doing with my house in a day.  Of course, any routine is an ideal  day at home. There are going to be days when I run errands and go to my mom's house, and I don't commit my homemaking routine to Sundays because I routinely spend that day out of the house with my family.  I also consider my routine an ideal and not a standard because, so far, the self-discipline to commit to a routine is hard work; I just haven't gotten there yet. My primary obstacle is that unless I start my routine at my planned start time, I lose motivation to pick up later in the morning. My planned wake-up time is 7:30 a.m. I know a lot of vintage homemakers woke up at 6:00 a.m., so I shouldn't complain about waking up an hour and a half later. But, I hav...