It is hard to believe that Spurgeon Seewald just turned ten years old. Who remembers watching Jessa and Ben Seewald start their parenthood journey on Counting On? In her latest YouTube video, Jessa shares footage from Spurgeon’s birthday, and she showcases a few systems that she uses to keep her home running smoothly.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
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I love her videos, always learn something new.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Spurgeon! What a precious family! How fun for Spurgeon to have a day of celebrations starting with a special breakfast with the family and opening gifts from them, to going golfing with his Dad and brother Henry and eating out at a cool restaurant with them and a walk around the lake and back home to more celebrating by eating yummy coffee ice cream! Also loved seeing Jessa share helpful systems to running her home. I am going to try starting a load of wash first thing in the morning also like she does. This will help me to keep my laundry from getting out of hand. Jessa thank you for your encouragement.
ReplyDeleteHow is starting a load of wash first thing in the morning efficient? What if you have appointments or errands that day and have to leave? The clothes would either sit there in a wet or hot lump at the end of the cycles, and then they'd have to be ironed. Also, it's not safe to leave the house with appliances running. Ask my friend whose dryer malfunctioned when she was at work and she lost her house. It's not practical to do wash unless you're there to supervise it the whole time. It's also easy to forget that you'd put a load in. Tell me we all haven't been distracted and discovered a wet load still in the washer hours or days later, a load we tried to run while multi-tasking and trying to be "efficient."
Delete@12:40am Sorry, I didn’t clarify, that I think it would be helpful for me to start a load of wash EACH MORNING THAT I KNEW I would be home to wash, dry, fold and put my clothes away! I thought everyone would assume I would only do that on days I am home in the mornings. (I am home most every morning till 11:30 except for Sunday so I have plenty of time to get it all done) Don’t worry, I won’t have any lumpy wrinkled clothes or fires at my house, from leaving with my appliances running unattended.
DeleteIt sounds like what you are simply saying, @1240 is this isn't a system that would work for YOUR home. Perhaps it works for someone else.
DeleteThere is nothing "simple" about running a home with all those kids. If you're doing it right that is and not cutting corners or denying activities. For instance, my friend's mother wouldn't allow any kids in the living room in order to keep it neat. What she didn't realize was that she was valuing tidiness over her children's freedom to live in their own house. I hope Jessa's "simple" systems don't include forbidding toys or children somewhere.
ReplyDelete@11:54pm Be assured that Jessa doesn’t forbid her children from playing with toys and having fun in any room in their house. She let’s her kids be kids, and I am sure they all work together to pick up the toys when it’s to straighten up.
DeleteYou may be on to something. Didn't Jessa say in an earlier video that the kids weren't allowed to have toys in certain rooms? A video made not long after they'd moved in and she was showing the house.
DeleteYeah, I didn't let my kids have toys in my bedroom or the laundry room. A child can learn what is appropriate to use where. No big deal.
Delete@4:17 Restricting where you can have toys and then having consequences if those rules are broken is an unnecessary way to create anxiety in an innocent child. My parents had a rule about not leaving toys outside, that they would be thrown away if found. So harsh. I accidentally left a little play purse on our picnic table once (at least I think that's where it was) and I never saw it again. It still bothers me that my feelings weren't cared about enough to simply return my toy to me. So it can indeed be a big deal. Think like a child. Have some empathy. Kids have no boundaries for where they think it's "appropriate" to have their things. They see family things all over the house and want to be part of that family. You really want a battle over a toy? You want your kids telling internet strangers what you did decades later?
Delete@11:36am So Sorry that happened to you when you were a child. That was very harsh! I have sad memories of my childhood too, so I feel for you and I am sure you are very sensitive to the feelings of your children and other children like I am now as an adult. A more appropriate thing to do is if the child is old enough to understand, is to put the toy in storage for a day or two then give it back to them after they left a toys outside and of course, letting the child know they didn’t do anything bad, it’s just being human, we all forget to pick up things and put them away. You were just forgetful not disobedient.
DeleteI wanted to comment to you also that 4:17pm, never said that they would take their child’s toy away for good, like what happened to you. Maybe they didn’t take their child’s toy away at all, just reminded them, where playing with their toys was allowed, which she shared any where in the house but not in their parents room or the laundry room.
I think Jessa, like her Mom, Michelle, are very aware of and understanding the importance of their children having time to just be kids and play with their toys and have fun, and be creative! They are not too restrictive at all!
11:36, my kids did not have "harsh consequences." They would have just been asked to move their toy or I would have picked it up and put it in the living room or their room if they weren't around at the time. What your parents did was over the top, but that doesn't mean a child can't be directed to learn where things go. Or have boundaries, as you say.
Deletea family of 8and ahe only does a couple of washes a day really there are only 2 of us in our house and to keep on top of the washing i do it every day except a sun as that is my day out
ReplyDeleteIt may seem odd, but remember her children are ten years and under (small), so one load can wash 2-3 days of clothes. I’m guessing the second load is bedding or towels.
DeleteThis will definitely increase as the children grow (clothes get bigger). As a mama to six, I do more laundry loads for my teens than I did for newborns!
no way one wash will do 6 kids however small they are and 2 adults a day she only separates her whites what about black/navy etc they need to be separate too
DeleteWhites, lights, darks, towels, sheets - the basic 5 loads you have to do as soon as they pile up! Used to add Perma-Press when that was a separate laundry thing. All those kids and all those beds...I'd be doing multiple loads daily to stay ahead. Jessa does not strike me as someone who naturally tries to stay ahead of housework. She might be learning to force herself to. I'll bet she's not happy about it though. It can be drudgery. And where's Ben? He should be helping or doing loads. Spurgeon and Ivy are old enough to work a washing machine too, or to do other chores. My husband has been doing his own laundry and ironing since he was a teen. Thank you MIL. He also does dishes and cleans bathrooms voluntarily. None of this "women's work" stuff around here. It's just work.
DeleteOh my goodness you people have to dissect everything to death! Lol If she says that's how much laundry she does,then that's how much laundry she does. Thanks for the laugh though. Goodness gracious. ☺️
Deleteactually very little washing for size of family guess she will never have to wash and iron school uniforms which cuts it down
DeleteJessa is a real treasure.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree! God Bless her & family!
DeleteI can't imagine being her age with 6 kids and the thing that makes me happy or gives me self-worth is making myself start a load of laundry first thing in the morning. I'm wondering if she remembers what happened to her mother once while doing laundry?
ReplyDelete@7:14 Speaking for myself, I find satisfaction in getting chores done, especially the laundry. I'm old enough to remember the days of growing up with a wringer washer and the only dryer we had was a clothesline, 365 days a year. So, not a day goes by that I don't feel a bit of a thrill when using my Speed Queen washer and dryer.
DeleteHaving a big family certainly isn't for everyone. However, it stands to reason we support women, whether they find fulfillment raising a family and caring for the home, or choose to have a career. Different strokes for different folks.
DeleteRunning her home efficiently and well is her job. Just because there's no tangible paycheck doesn't mean it's worthless or demeaning. And since it's her job, it's great that she takes satisfaction from finding ways to do it better. I applaud her for that.
Delete@4:45pm, 5:05pm & 8:51pm
DeleteLoved your comments!!!
WELL SAID!!! I would also add, a comment to 7:14am, that Jessa doesn’t get her self worth from running her house. She and everyone who has ever lived is created in the image of God! And God our Creator loves us with an everlasted love! He knows the number of hairs on our heads and when we rise up and sit down. We have self worth because God sees us as so precious, He is not willing that any should perish ( be separated from God forever in hell)
so He sent His only Son Jesus to take the punishment for our sins by shedding His blood and dying on the cross in our place, as an atonement for our sins!!!! What a Wonderful Savior our Beloved Jesus Christ!!! That is WHO we get our self worth
from!!!
I disagree. This is about the life jessa has to live. She doesn’t need bible quotes, she needs personal support from family and friends.
Delete9:50 What’s with all the bible stuff?
DeleteIt’s obvious, like her mother, Jessa finds full satisfaction and joy in motherhood and being a wife. She enjoys her life tasks, what some call mundane, she enjoys doing for her family. Being the fifth of six children , I watched my mother find joy and peace in serving her family. I remember when she passed away my dad felt so hurt that social security didn’t give him the typical couple hundred dollars at passing because she didn’t have a “real” job. In reality she had the most important job on earth and honored God with her life.
ReplyDeleteyes michelle was the best mother look how much she done for her children always looked after them herself also did all the housework herself what a wonderful person
DeleteI love that, 7:30!
Delete11:46 LOL You sure you were watching the same program the rest of us were?! LOL
DeleteYes, Jessa and her mother are both examples of a virtuous woman. With all the disappointments and heartaches Michelle has endured from a couple of her kids, she continues to love and give to her family. Her days of nursing and teaching 19 kids and organizing the family into productive helpers is now over. However she continues to love and nurture her children and grandchildren..always being there for birth and care. Some people are naturally a wife and mother.
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