: one who manages a household especially as a wife and mother

“One who manages a household especially as a wife and mother”

It sounds so simple.  One little sentence that is a very accurate assessment of what a homemaker does.  We manage our households.

Sure it’s about menu planning and grocery shopping and the basic stuff like cooking, cleaning the house and taking care of the kids.  It is about getting my hands dirty and making sure everyone is fed, bathed and clothed.

But it is also about a feeling I am trying to create.  I think it’s a feeling I had as a child.

It’s a feeling of comfort and contentment and a coziness that is hard to describe.  It’s pancakes on Saturday morning and piling in mom and dad’s bed on Sunday morning.   It’s decorating for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and  all the holidays throughout the year.

It’s about reading the same book 11 times in a row, making blanket forts and drinking  sixty cups of delicious imaginary tea.

I really think about how I want my girls to remember their childhood home.  I am sure they will remember me telling them to clean up their rooms or to stop screaming RIGHT THIS MINUTE before I PULL THIS VAN OVER!  But mostly I hope they remember that their home was warm and fun and sometimes really LOUD but they always felt loved there.

Because if home is nothing else at all it’s a place where you should always feel loved.  And pancakes… there should definitely be pancakes.

This post is a part of a blog carnival hosted by my lovely friend Elizabeth.  The idea was to write about home.  You should click here and go read some of the other posts.

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