I think it takes women .... some women, a long time to get here, here, in the "home" head space. Here... is accepting that this is important work. That this is real work, not obligation. I have been home now for 2 years and 4 months. I stayed home beyond the year maternity leave (putting my career on hold). Fifteen minutes after I stopped breastfeeding .... I was pregnant again and I now have two boys, 19 months a part. I love being called a mom, I cringe at the housewife label.
The transition from one to two and the realization that I was not going back to work has been a real challenge. Motherhood is exhausting and breath taking but the housewife thing kicks my butt on a daily basis... house cleaning, cooking, laundry. I could get help in anyone of these areas - but i also have guilt. I am home... so why can't I get these things under control.
OK... so the whole thing about this BLOG is ...lately I have decided to shed all my "ideas" about what housewife means .... I am going re-invent housewife..... for now..... for this part of my life ...while I am home. . . I'm going to get it right and I'm going to be really good at THIS. I am going to RE-INVENT THE ART OF HOUSEWIFE.
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