Thanks for being a part of our very ordinary life, my friends. I'm glad to have you here! Share the favorite moments of your everyday life in the comments - let's get some good vibes going!
Thank you so much for this pearl dear Shaye...i was thinking about this topic right in the last period....and i ABSOLUTELY agree with you!! I truly think that the top of the mountain is in the simplest things in life, like the hugs of our children, or the smell of the coffee in the chilly autumn mornings. Thank you so so much for this reminder ❤
Shaye, your best video ever! I am grateful for the blessing of time. Since lockdown my family and I have gone through all of the emotions. But now we have come to a point of peace and our days flow with more grace. I am finding gratitude, astonishingly, in the tasks I found to be so tedious months ago. My heart is ripe with the pleasures of phone calls (no texting), hand written letters and note cards, water colouring, reading, walking, long drives along dusty old backroads, breakfasts with my hubs, and so much more. I love what I now call the awakened ordinary. The moments and pleasures that, in prior ‘busy filled’ days, went unnoticed. Thank you for the pleasure of this beautiful look into your ‘ordinary’. Beautiful!
I have never been that person that wants to go go go. I love being in my home and garden. It may be very boring for others, but it fits me and my soul.
Maybe it's a hormonal day, but I am washing dishes and watching our kids play just outside and crying. This video really touched my soul! We are in a big transition, just having our last baby and really digging our feet into this homesteading thing. It has been a bittersweet transition for this mama of 5. Thanks for the inspirational reminder and the soul cleansing tears!
This has got to be my favorite video so far! Ordinary is perfect! Not boring. Every morning I wake up, open all the windows and doors to let in fresh air, and head outside to water and tend to my garden. I pray out there, listen to sermons, and sometimes listen to a little gospel. Then I put the kettle on for a hot cup of tea and head to the shower. That’s my morning routine. I was recently told that I am boring. Not ordinary, but boring. 🤷🏽♀️
many people that can't stand to be slow and still lack internal peace and so project their bad feelings onto others who have that peace. Speaking from experience! Just peeked at your channel and you are far from boring!
I've told my Husband for years that it's the ordinary every day life that makes me feel loved and safe. We've been married almost 43 years and I still love that every day life.
The simplicity of life brings happiness and peace within one song. Making breakfast for your family is a blessing to your family each time you prepare that meal gather those grapes the tomatoes and slice the bread and fry it and add something special to that bread that’s a blessing the ordinary knife is needed in this world today, I was raised in the 50s life was very simple, children played outside until it was dark up until the age of 17 and 18 years old, as a young teenager we were outside riding bicycle skating running playing sports at the local park, we were visiting neighbors and helping neighbors more than ever. I made a quarter every week in the summer having a sweet little lady down the street weed her flowerbeds. We didn’t go on vacations we went to our grandparents home which was about 80 miles away and that was our adventure or we will spend the weekend with our aunt and uncle in the country ride horses play with the cows and the chickens and walk the Gravel roads, make up imaginary games to play, the simple life. In my home my mother was a single mom because she was a widow and she learned how to be frugal she had a garden we planted flowers my mother did all the hands-on work in the house and it was a simple life we didn’t go to Disneyland or take vacations we didn’t go to movies because my mother was very frugal with her money. There is no simple life and the lives of children nowadays it’s technology which is a good thing when it is used properly, there are children that do not exercise and enjoy the great outdoors the fresh air and the meals that are planned for families now are usually fast food, which brings on distance in the Family unit because majority of the time the food is eating in the vehicle on the way to a ball game. We always ate dinner at 5 o’clock when I was a child we had our kitchen cleaned up homework done and we were in the bed by 8 o’clock at night got a good nights rest and was ready for the next day. I commend you and your family for your lifestyle and teaching your children the simplicity of life are not taking anything that God has given us in the way of nature food family unit
This really spoke to me. Achievement and striving and competition and status are such a distraction from what really brings us satisfaction and gives us meaning.
So beautiful! Thank you for sharing. It brings to my mind Ecclesiastes 9 "Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife/husband whom you love, all the days of your life (which are a mere breath), that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." vs 7-9
I’m a stay at home mom to two babies, and there are days where I feel so down and discouraged that my life is small; but this was a very warm and gentle reminder to enjoy the ordinary that my life is - changing diapers, doing countless dishes, laundry, etc. Thank you ❤️
I used to feel that way too when my children were small and I was home 24/7 but looking back (Im 67) those were some of my fondest memories; enjoy, they grow up pretty quickly.
Amen. I was the same. For so many years I waited on life to happen, then one day I realized it was. Now I help with my grandkids and have learned to enjoy the present.
Ah, there is peace here, and no "striving" in sight. I love it! What a breath of fresh air! My house is way messier than I would like, but my children are happy. My husband is happy. And I'm happy too. That's more important. And what if these messy years are the golden years? I don't want to miss it and only focus on the mess. I want to find the beauty in spite of the things out of place and focus on that...just like you've done here. Thank you for this beautiful perspective.
Your life is anything but ordinary. It IS the grand, elaborate rainbow. It is extraordinary! I am grateful every day for my "ordinary" life and all of it's blessings. ❤️
My husband and I always talk about places we would like to visit or even live at for a time. We always come back to family. You can have " it all" but the true joy in life is relationships. Relationships with your children, grandchildren, your spouse and God. We never venture far from where our 9 children and 20 grandchildren live. Life with them is extraordinary.
Yes I agree with ordinary is perfect. We must appreciate our surroundings and be grateful for what we have. In the end, we will be much happier. I love the way you live.
This is such an important message to share with others!! One of my favorite moments happens every morning like clockwork. My pup comes into my bedroom at 6am and snuggles up to me, letting me know that it is time to start our day, but first a few belly rubs for him and then coffee for me. Thank you for the beautiful video!
Oh my goodness, I can't tell you how much this video touched me! It was so beautifully done and a message I want to keep being reminded of. This is the best UA-cam video I have seen in a really long time.
Oh how I needed this reminder. So very timely. I'm praising the Lord that He had you create this. This is my mountaintop, this is my hidden rainbow. To live a quiet and simple life seeking to glorify the Lord.
When you were cutting the grapes it reminded me of my Greek father who is no longer with us, and I can tell you, what he taught me. the skills of loving the earth's bounty, the pleasure of growing your own produce even in a small suburban Melbourne garden, how to drive a car, how to graft another variety of plum on a tree, and the tomato seeds he'd been regenerating year after year for the last 50+ years which I now have been blessed to have; that simplicity, that is the gift. My dad spent entire days in the garden and he loved it, it's what kept him here longer than we knew. Your gift is the gift of this life you have given to your children, and how to work the land so it's nourishing us in return. Your very channel enlightening us all. That love you have for Cece, that's the gift. Every breathing moment you have here is a gift, and that's absolutely perfect 🙏🏻👍😍💕
Shaye Just want you to know how much I love this video .Have watched it many times. Each time I watch it I take something new away. The past couple of years have not been easy but appreciating the simple joys in life is the answer.Thank you so much to you and your family for putting yourselves out there and sharing all your special days and ideas...
I just found your channel, and everything about you, your family, and what you have created is beautiful. You are a poet with your words and put out into the world such a calm, positive, and simple energy that is so needed now more than ever. Thank you creating such authentic and beautiful content! As a mother and wife, I struggle with letting those feelings of adventure go, but I truly savor every second I can with my family. You have moved me to tears with your perfect way of putting this new chapter into words. Thank you for this soulful and authentic content!
Each time you create a video the art of storytelling becomes more and more beautiful. You are definitely an artist on so many levels, whether you are creating colorful Gardens or colorful platters of food. Thank you for sharing so many incredible moments with us. You have a beautiful life and because you share your Artistic abilities you are helping us all understand that an ordinary life IS LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST✨
You women are so healing , so beautiful, and so heart filled, my heart just hugs you all today, for all your appreciation for the most precious of gifts, we love all of you great
I love how serene your videos are, it calms my heart and eases my mind. Thank you for showing gratitude to life, it helps putting my life into perspective. So much love.
I never achieved any of my mountain top moments. I'm 36 and still no prospect of it. For a long time I felt the pain of it and lived as though that life was just temporary, but in this past year I have come to appreciate the freedom of solitude and done what you mention in your video, wake up with the sun, make a coffee and face the day. Certainly a simple life is what brings the greatest contentment
Thank you for that! A huge wake up call, in the midst of worrying if we have enough money for this, that and the other. I’m here, I have my family, my home and my life .... that’s is a dream come true already!
A video I didn’t know I needed today. Definitely brought me to tears. Beautifully said and makes me appreciate my life even more. It’s a beautiful, ordinary life,
This was myyy favoritte video. This lights my heart. A biblical understanding of what we are placed here to be and do. We are great already. You have no idea how many notes and journal entries that are almost your exact same words in this video ☺️💛 you put it into video form, better than I ever could 💛
You are living the best days right now Shaye ....these are the days you'll constantly be remembering and reminiscing about when you are empty nesters. Soak in every bit of the magnificent and blessed ordinary days ....be present, have that picnic instead of cleaning, laugh together, and try to linger in everything right now......it's what you will be pondering and smiling over during early morning coffee when they are gone and off in their own lives.
Susan M I don’t know about that. My children are grown and I don’t sit around thinking about when they were small. I still enjoy my ordinary moments and days, even though they are different than they used to be. I do understand that it’s good to enjoy the babies while they’re small. I did that too.
@@cynthiafisher9907 oh goodness we don't "sit around thinking about when they were small" in a melancholy way....life is just as full and blessed now as it was then (in a different way as it's just the 2 of us on a daily basis)... not a day goes by no matter where we are....home or traveling in another country that we don't have a sweet memory of when we were all together everyday. For me, it is the ordinary moments of life that Shaye talks about that always bring us joy and laughter ( who knew picking flowers in the garden and being chased by that bee would become such a sweet memory)...... But you can bet we are still making new memories too!
Thank you for reminding us all to BE THANKFUL!!! That is the purpose of life. To enjoy all the magical blessings around us every minute of our lives. God is GOOD!!!
Your life is not ordinary it is blessed and extraordinary. You are very very privileged. Your everyday life is compared to others who have nothing..their lives are such a grind.
This video had me tearing up. It reminded me of the verse: Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16. Seeing the blessings that are in front of us, Rejoicing in them and loving life in the moment even when it’s difficult can be challenging, but God knows what he’s doing always.
Thank you for sharing! That was very beautiful done. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the simple pleasures in life and the fulfillment they can bring.
I could not agree with this video more. People are in far to much of a hurry and far to consumed with chasing dreams. I love the ordinary I love to look around my home and I get so much Joy from the things around me that are my memories. The time spent in the ordinary are the memories we are storing up. Life changes the seasons of life change we need to grasp every moment whatever season and enjoy. Xxx
Beautiful! *This made me want to make myself a cup of coffee.* The key to being happy in life... realize and appreciate as many everyday (ordinary) blessings we already have.
My favorite everyday moments are the conversations my husband and I have before we even let our feet touch the floor. They are the most intimate, quiet moments in the day. Very ordinary. My rainbow. My mountain top ❤️
Beautiful video! Watching you homeschool your kids brought back such great memories for me. My kids are all grown now , I thought our lives were so “ ordinary”but looking back I see it was and “extraordinary “privilege I had to be with my children❤️
Thank you for this glimpse into your family's life. I'm about 20 years down that road. Many beautiful moments. Much pain. Now "normal" and peaceful is a day at home with my husband, waiting for the children to call. Doing home still.
This was a good reminder to me to enjoy the “ordinary” things and moments of life. I enjoy listening to your voice Shaye. It is easy to listen to and unhurried.
Oh, yes!!! Ordinary is perfect. I loved this video. Just loved it. This really, really touched me. The beauty of your lives are in the bounty of family. No one can be richer than to have family and love. Splendid!!!! More, paleeeeeeze!!! XO
Watch your film again. It is far, far from ordinary. It is actually one of the most extraordinary lives that I have have seen. I have been so blessed by watching you and Stu - what you've accomplished and continue to accomplish. I'm 70 years old, have had lots of wonderful adventures, yet I am so envious of the two of you.
In my 63 yrs I have learned... there are No Ordinary days..❤️ Each one is Perfect and designed that way., to envelop us and to be Cherished.. Love your vlogs and your ways💕❤️💕
Your voice is the best female voice ever. Your life and appreciation of it is absolutely lovely. Your marriage appears of one to aspire to. Thanks for your contributions- blessings to you and yours
Thank you for the lovely videos this one is beautiful! I love the simplicity of my life. I live in a town I grew up in. I love seeing the people I've known for ever there is a comfort in that.
I agree with you! When you and I are satisfied with our lives then that is the ultimate accomplishment! A life in balance and harmony with our creator and our fellow human beings!
You are truly blessed to have come to these conclusions as young partners and parents. Many can only look back from an older age and wish they had. Beautiful!
I have been patiently following you for two years now, you have inspired me a lot. There's part of iner you that speaks to my heart. I hope to share with you my homestead someday and probably inviting you to Tanzania, East Africa. Namaste
Thankyou so much for that word! I feel it's a word from God for me today. That's a beautiful thing from the wellspring of your heart. I do so love ordinary. I was all about things like Selfish Ambition but not anymore. God has changed my heart and those things I was chasing have lost their lustre. I see them now for what they were. It was an attempt to get my mind on things that are fleeting and fading. I believe with all my heart God loves ordinary. I'm going to enjoy my ordinary life and thank God for it. Shalom.
Phil 4:11 Not that I speak in respect to want:for I have learned,in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Clarity of mind and purpose. Food for thought. Thank you.
Everyone’s happiness is different. For some your life is the dream, for some others they’d be bored out of their mind. Our lives are very similar in the day to day… caring for my family, gardening, etc. but then there are those moments a little adventure brings just what the doctor ordered. Balance = Contentment.
I've slowly been making my way through your channel. So much valuable and insightful information. But this video right here just made me bust out in tears... not just little ones, but SOBS. It was just what I needed, a big ol' virtual slap in the face. It was a reminder that my corporate stressful job will be there tomorrow, but my daughters childhood is only a blink of the eye. It was also reassuring to me that it's ok that I get so so so very excited to see my tomato seed sprout in February, and that I'm slowly building my small backyard garden into something, well, ordinary. Thank you so much for this video, and that slap in the face. xo (still sobbing)
What a beautiful video! I love your heart about your life, your family, contentment, and purpose. This was a wonderful reminder and encouragement to me! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
If I had a life like yours I would think it’s extraordinary! I’m in bad health with Addison’s disease along with Pituitary issues and would love to live a life like yours. I watch your channel and live watching you live a perfect looking life! Thx for the content sister 😃💕🌞
I have seen many vlogs on coping during this time but this is the first vlog that is informative in sharing about how to embrace the 'rainbow' of being human, instaed of chasing a rainbow of endless disapointment. I imagine that if we all follwed your wisdom we would be in a much better positon to ride the wave of life. Thanks so much I really appreciate your perspective.
I cannot tell you how much this spoke to what has been in my heart even more the last month. We just got home from a 10 day road trip and the call to just be and dig deeper into all things homesteading and ‘ordinary’ is just that! Thank you! ❤️
I'm totally content in and with the ordinary. The "dash" of one's life: Born 1961-(death date goes here). That little dash between those dates represents the life lived. The everyday moments...the Monday's thru Friday's...ARE the life. Living the ordinary in gratitude and satisfaction is a life well lived.
I agree, we have similar adventures everyday life is the adventure. I work my plot everyday we build new things everyday and we love our life more now than before. We are at peace with eachother. Tesla said "If one is lost, always turn back to nature".
my ordinary life includes coffee at sunrise while watching your ordinary life - before i start my ordinary adventure of farm / ranch / homestead life! Blessings n sunshine always!
A perfect day is spent at home; in my garden - in my kitchen. When I do have to travel; I'm actually homesick. Love being a 'home body'. It's what makes me happy. Here's to an ordinary life. Here's to you Elliot Homestead family.
Shaye your videos speak to my heart! I spent so much of my early years chasing dreams that I failed to see what I had under my own roof. Even now, finding balance and living in the moment takes work. This spring my family spent hours outside by a fire loving on each other and having deep conversations every evening. Then summer hit and it was all hands on deck. The task oriented side of me came out as I worked from sun up to sun down in the garden, kitchen, and on the farm, I found myself saying “go play” instead being engaged and anticipating great conversations. I feel like I got lost along the way. Parenting is hard. Being a full time stay at home Mom is hard. Homesteading is hard. And focusing on what matters most in this ordinary life can be equally as hard. ❤️
Wow, I needed to hear this so much. I have been beating myself up recently, feeling I am not doing enough with each day. But your thought process on this made me feel so at peace. "Giving thanks for what is right in front of you" 🙏 yes yes yes thank you.
Thank you for sharing your different perspective on LIFE. I learned a lot about gratitude and fulfilment in this video. I am at peace now with this understanding that not every goal needs to be met, not every city needs to be visited. Who i am is a child of God not an accumulation of worldly desire and wishes..
At a time of extreme stress in my life right now (job loss, death of a parent) I found this very relaxing and a good reminder that I will get back to ordinary eventually and I can look forward to that.
Thanks for being a part of our very ordinary life, my friends. I'm glad to have you here! Share the favorite moments of your everyday life in the comments - let's get some good vibes going!
So lovely and artistically orchestrated 😍 even for ordinary, your life is beautiful and rich with beauty all around ❤️
😢🥰🥰Absolutely perfectly said. Yes, celebrate our perfectly, imperfect, ordinary lives.💜💜
Thank you so much for this pearl dear Shaye...i was thinking about this topic right in the last period....and i ABSOLUTELY agree with you!! I truly think that the top of the mountain is in the simplest things in life, like the hugs of our children, or the smell of the coffee in the chilly autumn mornings. Thank you so so much for this reminder ❤
Shaye, your best video ever! I am grateful for the blessing of time. Since lockdown my family and I have gone through all of the emotions. But now we have come to a point of peace and our days flow with more grace. I am finding gratitude, astonishingly, in the tasks I found to be so tedious months ago. My heart is ripe with the pleasures of phone calls (no texting), hand written letters and note cards, water colouring, reading, walking, long drives along dusty old backroads, breakfasts with my hubs, and so much more. I love what I now call the awakened ordinary. The moments and pleasures that, in prior ‘busy filled’ days, went unnoticed.
Thank you for the pleasure of this beautiful look into your ‘ordinary’. Beautiful!
Soo needed this right now. 💓
I have never been that person that wants to go go go. I love being in my home and garden. It may be very boring for others, but it fits me and my soul.
I can relate to everything that you said. This is exactly how I live as well.
Me too!!!!!!!
Me too!
Amen!
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." -G.K. Chesterton
I checked the comments to see if Chesterton had already been recalled 😄👌
Oh my goodness, I just ran across that quote the other day! So beautiful!!!:)
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Great quote!
We cant have children😥
There is nothing more beautiful than a life appreciated.
so well said 🙏🏽
… Very well said
Preach❤🙌
Yes!
Maybe it's a hormonal day, but I am washing dishes and watching our kids play just outside and crying. This video really touched my soul! We are in a big transition, just having our last baby and really digging our feet into this homesteading thing. It has been a bittersweet transition for this mama of 5. Thanks for the inspirational reminder and the soul cleansing tears!
Awe💕😥
Blessings and comfort for your heart ❤
It something a homemaker needs to hear every once in a while.
Indeed!:)
@Turquoise Cheetah All work is worthy and, a wife and stay at home mother is most honorable.
This has got to be my favorite video so far! Ordinary is perfect! Not boring. Every morning I wake up, open all the windows and doors to let in fresh air, and head outside to water and tend to my garden. I pray out there, listen to sermons, and sometimes listen to a little gospel. Then I put the kettle on for a hot cup of tea and head to the shower. That’s my morning routine. I was recently told that I am boring. Not ordinary, but boring. 🤷🏽♀️
Love that type of routine!!!💕
TJ ** Thank you and amen! God bless you 💚
many people that can't stand to be slow and still lack internal peace and so project their bad feelings onto others who have that peace. Speaking from experience! Just peeked at your channel and you are far from boring!
@@elleobi 🥰 Thank you 💚
I've told my Husband for years that it's the ordinary every day life that makes me feel loved and safe. We've been married almost 43 years and I still love that every day life.
That’s beautiful!:)
Yes! But this world, sadly makes us think we should want more!
The simplicity of life brings happiness and peace within one song. Making breakfast for your family is a blessing to your family each time you prepare that meal gather those grapes the tomatoes and slice the bread and fry it and add something special to that bread that’s a blessing the ordinary knife is needed in this world today, I was raised in the 50s life was very simple, children played outside until it was dark up until the age of 17 and 18 years old, as a young teenager we were outside riding bicycle skating running playing sports at the local park, we were visiting neighbors and helping neighbors more than ever. I made a quarter every week in the summer having a sweet little lady down the street weed her flowerbeds. We didn’t go on vacations we went to our grandparents home which was about 80 miles away and that was our adventure or we will spend the weekend with our aunt and uncle in the country ride horses play with the cows and the chickens and walk the Gravel roads, make up imaginary games to play, the simple life. In my home my mother was a single mom because she was a widow and she learned how to be frugal she had a garden we planted flowers my mother did all the hands-on work in the house and it was a simple life we didn’t go to Disneyland or take vacations we didn’t go to movies because my mother was very frugal with her money. There is no simple life and the lives of children nowadays it’s technology which is a good thing when it is used properly, there are children that do not exercise and enjoy the great outdoors the fresh air and the meals that are planned for families now are usually fast food, which brings on distance in the Family unit because majority of the time the food is eating in the vehicle on the way to a ball game. We always ate dinner at 5 o’clock when I was a child we had our kitchen cleaned up homework done and we were in the bed by 8 o’clock at night got a good nights rest and was ready for the next day. I commend you and your family for your lifestyle and teaching your children the simplicity of life are not taking anything that God has given us in the way of nature food family unit
This really spoke to me. Achievement and striving and competition and status are such a distraction from what really brings us satisfaction and gives us meaning.
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing. It brings to my mind Ecclesiastes 9
"Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife/husband whom you love, all the days of your life (which are a mere breath), that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." vs 7-9
I love the simplicity of the Bible.
I’m a stay at home mom to two babies, and there are days where I feel so down and discouraged that my life is small; but this was a very warm and gentle reminder to enjoy the ordinary that my life is - changing diapers, doing countless dishes, laundry, etc. Thank you ❤️
Rest assured, your life is not small to those babies.
I used to feel that way too when my children were small and I was home 24/7 but looking back (Im 67) those were some of my fondest memories; enjoy, they grow up pretty quickly.
Amen. I was the same. For so many years I waited on life to happen, then one day I realized it was. Now I help with my grandkids and have learned to enjoy the present.
Great things come in small packages, and you are doing great things!
Many women wish to be in your shoes. 🤍
I think a lot of us see your lifestyle as the extraordinary rainbow that's difficult to come by.
Ah, there is peace here, and no "striving" in sight. I love it! What a breath of fresh air!
My house is way messier than I would like, but my children are happy. My husband is happy. And I'm happy too. That's more important. And what if these messy years are the golden years? I don't want to miss it and only focus on the mess. I want to find the beauty in spite of the things out of place and focus on that...just like you've done here. Thank you for this beautiful perspective.
Beautiful!:)
Your life is anything but ordinary. It IS the grand, elaborate rainbow. It is extraordinary! I am grateful every day for my "ordinary" life and all of it's blessings. ❤️
My husband and I always talk about places we would like to visit or even live at for a time. We always come back to family. You can have " it all" but the true joy in life is relationships. Relationships with your children, grandchildren, your spouse and God. We never venture far from where our 9 children and 20 grandchildren live. Life with them is extraordinary.
Yes I agree with ordinary is perfect. We must appreciate our surroundings and be grateful for what we have. In the end, we will be much happier. I love the way you live.
This is such an important message to share with others!! One of my favorite moments happens every morning like clockwork. My pup comes into my bedroom at 6am and snuggles up to me, letting me know that it is time to start our day, but first a few belly rubs for him and then coffee for me. Thank you for the beautiful video!
Oh my goodness, I can't tell you how much this video touched me! It was so beautifully done and a message I want to keep being reminded of. This is the best UA-cam video I have seen in a really long time.
Oh how I needed this reminder. So very timely. I'm praising the Lord that He had you create this. This is my mountaintop, this is my hidden rainbow. To live a quiet and simple life seeking to glorify the Lord.
THIS was beautiful, Momma Panda. I cried when I read your last two lines.
Sooooo appealing! The most appealing lifestyle to me ever!:)
When you were cutting the grapes it reminded me of my Greek father who is no longer with us, and I can tell you, what he taught me. the skills of loving the earth's bounty, the pleasure of growing your own produce even in a small suburban Melbourne garden, how to drive a car, how to graft another variety of plum on a tree, and the tomato seeds he'd been regenerating year after year for the last 50+ years which I now have been blessed to have; that simplicity, that is the gift. My dad spent entire days in the garden and he loved it, it's what kept him here longer than we knew. Your gift is the gift of this life you have given to your children, and how to work the land so it's nourishing us in return. Your very channel enlightening us all. That love you have for Cece, that's the gift. Every breathing moment you have here is a gift, and that's absolutely perfect 🙏🏻👍😍💕
I'm in tears. Thank you. Wholeheartedly, your beautiful videos and words have changed my entire week....thank you.
Shaye Just want you to know how much I love this video .Have watched it many times. Each time I watch it I take something new away. The past couple of years have not been easy but appreciating the simple joys in life is the answer.Thank you so much to you and your family for putting yourselves out there and sharing all your special days and ideas...
I just found your channel, and everything about you, your family, and what you have created is beautiful. You are a poet with your words and put out into the world such a calm, positive, and simple energy that is so needed now more than ever. Thank you creating such authentic and beautiful content! As a mother and wife, I struggle with letting those feelings of adventure go, but I truly savor every second I can with my family. You have moved me to tears with your perfect way of putting this new chapter into words. Thank you for this soulful and authentic content!
Romancing the ordinary! Beautifully told❤️
Indeed, indeed!❤️
As I approach 60 years, boy did I need to hear your message now!
So beautiful! I needed this now, life’s been hectic with 2 deaths and watching the video Blessed me. Thank you ❤️
An ordinary life can be a perfect life; when one can see the beauty in the common-place, and be perfectly content. Lovely Video.
Each time you create a video the art of storytelling becomes more and more beautiful. You are definitely an artist on so many levels, whether you are creating colorful Gardens or colorful platters of food. Thank you for sharing so many incredible moments with us. You have a beautiful life and because you share your Artistic abilities you are helping us all understand that an ordinary life IS LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST✨
My life is way more ordinary than yours, but it took me a long time to learn to love this ordinary life of mine❤️
You women are so healing , so beautiful, and so heart filled, my heart just hugs you all today, for all your appreciation for the most precious of gifts, we love all of you great
I love how serene your videos are, it calms my heart and eases my mind. Thank you for showing gratitude to life, it helps putting my life into perspective. So much love.
Oh what a wise young woman you are .How lucky your children are to have such a calm wholesome mum in their lives.
I think your life is extraordinary. It's the kind of living God wants for all His children. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
I never achieved any of my mountain top moments. I'm 36 and still no prospect of it. For a long time I felt the pain of it and lived as though that life was just temporary, but in this past year I have come to appreciate the freedom of solitude and done what you mention in your video, wake up with the sun, make a coffee and face the day. Certainly a simple life is what brings the greatest contentment
There is so much beauty in everyday life and some people do not notice... You are one of those that makes people notice!
This was absolutely beautiful specially for times that we are living nowadays. I love being home.
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Thank you for that! A huge wake up call, in the midst of worrying if we have enough money for this, that and the other. I’m here, I have my family, my home and my life .... that’s is a dream come true already!
A video I didn’t know I needed today. Definitely brought me to tears. Beautifully said and makes me appreciate my life even more. It’s a beautiful, ordinary life,
This was myyy favoritte video. This lights my heart. A biblical understanding of what we are placed here to be and do. We are great already. You have no idea how many notes and journal entries that are almost your exact same words in this video ☺️💛 you put it into video form, better than I ever could 💛
🧡I viewed this years ago. I love it just as much today. As I view it my heart is stirred. Blessings to you and your family!
Thank you Shay. I’ve been saying this for many years. This is life...THIS IS THE GRAND ADVENTURE!!!!🌸💚
You are living the best days right now Shaye ....these are the days you'll constantly be remembering and reminiscing about when you are empty nesters. Soak in every bit of the magnificent and blessed ordinary days ....be present, have that picnic instead of cleaning, laugh together, and try to linger in everything right now......it's what you will be pondering and smiling over during early morning coffee when they are gone and off in their own lives.
Susan M I don’t know about that. My children are grown and I don’t sit around thinking about when they were small. I still enjoy my ordinary moments and days, even though they are different than they used to be. I do understand that it’s good to enjoy the babies while they’re small. I did that too.
@@cynthiafisher9907 oh goodness we don't "sit around thinking about when they were small" in a melancholy way....life is just as full and blessed now as it was then (in a different way as it's just the 2 of us on a daily basis)... not a day goes by no matter where we are....home or traveling in another country that we don't have a sweet memory of when we were all together everyday. For me, it is the ordinary moments of life that Shaye talks about that always bring us joy and laughter ( who knew picking flowers in the garden and being chased by that bee would become such a sweet memory)...... But you can bet we are still making new memories too!
Thank you for reminding us all to BE THANKFUL!!! That is the purpose of life. To enjoy all the magical blessings around us every minute of our lives. God is GOOD!!!
Your life is not ordinary it is blessed and extraordinary. You are very very privileged. Your everyday life is compared to others who have nothing..their lives are such a grind.
This speaks so much to me. You put words to how I feel so beautifully. I love love love this. Thank you! 💝
This video had me tearing up. It reminded me of the verse: Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16. Seeing the blessings that are in front of us, Rejoicing in them and loving life in the moment even when it’s difficult can be challenging, but God knows what he’s doing always.
Thank you for sharing! That was very beautiful done. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the simple pleasures in life and the fulfillment they can bring.
I could not agree with this video more. People are in far to much of a hurry and far to consumed with chasing dreams. I love the ordinary I love to look around my home and I get so much Joy from the things around me that are my memories. The time spent in the ordinary are the memories we are storing up. Life changes the seasons of life change we need to grasp every moment whatever season and enjoy. Xxx
I feel....the best video yet! The Heart and Soul of the Elliott Homestead🥰😇
Beautiful video and very true and wise words. Thank you! Life is now, wherever we are. It’s never somewhere else.
Beautiful! *This made me want to make myself a cup of coffee.* The key to being happy in life... realize and appreciate as many everyday (ordinary) blessings we already have.
My favorite everyday moments are the conversations my husband and I have before we even let our feet touch the floor. They are the most intimate, quiet moments in the day. Very ordinary. My rainbow. My mountain top ❤️
I'm glad you're enjoying these moments...it doesn't get any better!
Beautiful video! Watching you homeschool your kids brought back such great memories for me. My kids are all grown now , I thought our lives were so “ ordinary”but looking back I see it was and “extraordinary “privilege I had to be with my children❤️
Thank you for this glimpse into your family's life. I'm about 20 years down that road. Many beautiful moments. Much pain. Now "normal" and peaceful is a day at home with my husband, waiting for the children to call. Doing home still.
This was a good reminder to me to enjoy the “ordinary” things and moments of life. I enjoy listening to your voice Shaye. It is easy to listen to and unhurried.
Oh, yes!!! Ordinary is perfect. I loved this video. Just loved it. This really, really touched me. The beauty of your lives are in the bounty of family. No one can be richer than to have family and love. Splendid!!!! More, paleeeeeeze!!! XO
Watch your film again. It is far, far from ordinary. It is actually one of the most extraordinary lives that I have have seen. I have been so blessed by watching you and Stu - what you've accomplished and continue to accomplish. I'm 70 years old, have had lots of wonderful adventures, yet I am so envious of the two of you.
In my 63 yrs I have learned... there are No Ordinary days..❤️ Each one is Perfect and designed that way., to envelop us and to be Cherished.. Love your vlogs and your ways💕❤️💕
Your voice is the best female voice ever. Your life and appreciation of it is absolutely lovely. Your marriage appears of one to aspire to. Thanks for your contributions- blessings to you and yours
What a beautiful and much-needed commentary on living our everyday lives. Thank you for this.
So perfect!:)
Thank you for the lovely videos this one is beautiful! I love the simplicity of my life. I live in a town I grew up in. I love seeing the people I've known for ever there is a comfort in that.
I agree with you! When you and I are satisfied with our lives then that is the ultimate accomplishment! A life in balance and harmony with our creator and our fellow human beings!
You are truly blessed to have come to these conclusions as young partners and parents. Many can only look back from an older age and wish they had. Beautiful!
I have been patiently following you for two years now, you have inspired me a lot. There's part of iner you that speaks to my heart. I hope to share with you my homestead someday and probably inviting you to Tanzania, East Africa. Namaste
"Maybe this ordinary life IS the adventure!"
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!!!
Thankyou so much for that word! I feel it's a word from God for me today. That's a beautiful thing from the wellspring of your heart. I do so love ordinary. I was all about things like Selfish Ambition but not anymore. God has changed my heart and those things I was chasing have lost their lustre. I see them now for what they were. It was an attempt to get my mind on things that are fleeting and fading. I believe with all my heart God loves ordinary. I'm going to enjoy my ordinary life and thank God for it. Shalom.
Phil 4:11 Not that I speak in respect to want:for I have learned,in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Clarity of mind and purpose. Food for thought. Thank you.
Ich hatte die ganze zeit schon so eine Ahnung. Dass du es jetzt bestätigst, gibt mir Ruhe über meinem Tag. Greatings from Germany
Took me 41 years to realise its the ordinary that brings me the greatest joy. So it's where I'm trying to focus my energies.
Everyone’s happiness is different. For some your life is the dream, for some others they’d be bored out of their mind. Our lives are very similar in the day to day… caring for my family, gardening, etc. but then there are those moments a little adventure brings just what the doctor ordered. Balance = Contentment.
💯 percent agree! We just need eyes to see everyday beauty 🤗
I've slowly been making my way through your channel. So much valuable and insightful information. But this video right here just made me bust out in tears... not just little ones, but SOBS. It was just what I needed, a big ol' virtual slap in the face. It was a reminder that my corporate stressful job will be there tomorrow, but my daughters childhood is only a blink of the eye. It was also reassuring to me that it's ok that I get so so so very excited to see my tomato seed sprout in February, and that I'm slowly building my small backyard garden into something, well, ordinary. Thank you so much for this video, and that slap in the face. xo (still sobbing)
What a beautiful video! I love your heart about your life, your family, contentment, and purpose. This was a wonderful reminder and encouragement to me! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
If I had a life like yours I would think it’s extraordinary! I’m in bad health with Addison’s disease along with Pituitary issues and would love to live a life like yours. I watch your channel and live watching you live a perfect looking life! Thx for the content sister 😃💕🌞
I have seen many vlogs on coping during this time but this is the first vlog that is informative in sharing about how to embrace the 'rainbow' of being human, instaed of chasing a rainbow of endless disapointment. I imagine that if we all follwed your wisdom we would be in a much better positon to ride the wave of life. Thanks so much I really appreciate your perspective.
Thank you; I can't stop watching because I need this wonderful reminder!
I cannot tell you how much this spoke to what has been in my heart even more the last month. We just got home from a 10 day road trip and the call to just be and dig deeper into all things homesteading and ‘ordinary’ is just that! Thank you! ❤️
Every ordinary day is a blessing!💛
LOVE the music 💕💗along with ALL the content! So peaceful, hopeful, grateful & romantic. Excellent!
I'm totally content in and with the ordinary. The "dash" of one's life: Born 1961-(death date goes here). That little dash between those dates represents the life lived. The everyday moments...the Monday's thru Friday's...ARE the life. Living the ordinary in gratitude and satisfaction is a life well lived.
I love your voice.It's so soothing.And thank you so much for sharing your beautiful life with us🤗
You found it. Good for you! I’m seriously very happy for you.
I agree, we have similar adventures everyday life is the adventure. I work my plot everyday we build new things everyday and we love our life more now than before. We are at peace with eachother. Tesla said "If one is lost, always turn back to nature".
my ordinary life includes coffee at sunrise while watching your ordinary life - before i start my ordinary adventure of farm / ranch / homestead life! Blessings n sunshine always!
Love it!:)
We love our ordinary life, why? It's a wonderful life. Thanks so much for this inspiring video. God Bless your family.
A perfect day is spent at home; in my garden - in my kitchen. When I do have to travel; I'm actually homesick. Love being a 'home body'. It's what makes me happy. Here's to an ordinary life. Here's to you Elliot Homestead family.
There is no such thing as perfect, perfection is what you make it. Another one of my favorite videos of yours. Thank you 🙏😊
This is a different kind of day in the life and I am here for it!
I think this is some of your best work. The ordinary and the video. Thank you for the inspiration 🥰
This video gives me goosebumps. 💕 I am so inspired and have shared it with two people I know will love it too!
Shaye your videos speak to my heart! I spent so much of my early years chasing dreams that I failed to see what I had under my own roof. Even now, finding balance and living in the moment takes work. This spring my family spent hours outside by a fire loving on each other and having deep conversations every evening. Then summer hit and it was all hands on deck. The task oriented side of me came out as I worked from sun up to sun down in the garden, kitchen, and on the farm, I found myself saying “go play” instead being engaged and anticipating great conversations. I feel like I got lost along the way. Parenting is hard. Being a full time stay at home Mom is hard. Homesteading is hard. And focusing on what matters most in this ordinary life can be equally as hard. ❤️
Wow, I needed to hear this so much. I have been beating myself up recently, feeling I am not doing enough with each day. But your thought process on this made me feel so at peace. "Giving thanks for what is right in front of you" 🙏 yes yes yes thank you.
What a blessing and an honor! The glory of the Lord is in the little things! 🥰
Thank you for sharing your different perspective on LIFE. I learned a lot about gratitude and fulfilment in this video. I am at peace now with this understanding that not every goal needs to be met, not every city needs to be visited. Who i am is a child of God not an accumulation of worldly desire and wishes..
Exactly what I needed to see today. ❤ I love my ordinary life!
Life is just life... Ordinary maybe a but still extraordinary... Thanks for this video, an amazing reminder.
At a time of extreme stress in my life right now (job loss, death of a parent) I found this very relaxing and a good reminder that I will get back to ordinary eventually and I can look forward to that.
This video is life-changing. Absolutely beautiful perspective.