Homemaker Portrait | Cara Semler

I am chatting with in-the-trenches homemaker, Cara Semler, about her experience of keeping a home for the last 10 years with husband, Ross. Cara was deeply influenced by the beautiful, calm home her mother kept and wanted that for her own home; she just didn’t realize how much discipline would be required on her part to follow in her mother’s homemaking footsteps. 

Cara also shares her struggle to trust the Lord with her desire to own a home and how she learned to embrace homemaking even as a renter. As usual we talk about Cara’s homemaking wins, fails, tips and recipes. AND…. 

I am pulling out some Historical Homemaking Hints for you…we haven’t done those in a while! I hope you enjoy them. 

NOTES & LINKS

Register for Summer Book Club! Read and study JR Miller's Homemaking with us. June 11-Aug 6, 2025, 7:00am-8:00am CDT over Zoom. Meetings will be recorded and sent out to all registrants in case you miss a meeting. theartofhomepodcast.com/bookclub

HHH: Sunset's Host and Hostess Book, complied by Helen Krueger Muhs, 2nd edition, Lane Publishing Co, 1943, San Francisco, pp 148-149.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & What's Coming This Summer
• 3:54 Meet Cara: Musical Connections
• 8:57 Beginnings, Influences & Skills: Anxious Hostess, Do it Anyway
• 16:02 Expectations & Parenting: That Moment When You Realize How Hard Your Mom Worked
• 27:08 Historical Homemaker Hints
• 35:11 Temptations & Challenges: Combatting the Superwoman Myth & Trusting God with Your Homeownership Dreams
• 42:01 Hospitality & Homemaking Q & A: Wins, Fails, Tips, Favorites, & Signature Dish
• 47:42 The Art of Home & Titus 2 Wisdom
• 53:56 Top Takeaways and Closing Reminders