I have realized that I am a lousy housewife.
I was a great employee, but I am lousy housewife.
When I worked all the time I would go to another place. I would get up in the morning, prepare and leave my house. I would walk into my place of business. And I would work. I would do what was required of me. Then I would go home and do only what was necessary to get by. I would then spend the rest of my time "relaxing", also known as wasting on facebook, pinterest, and other various websites.
Then came pregnancy. I quit my job because it the requirements couldn't be modified to accommodate my needs. There wasn't another position open in my office for me to take, so I quit. My husband and I have always planned on me being a stay at home mom after we had children, I just started it a little earlier than originally expected.
I just assumed (you know what happens when you assume something right?!) that with having all of this extra time at home I would naturally be a good housewife. I had all this drive and energy to go a good job at work, that would have to translate to working around the house, right?
Wrong.
Seems to be that I still had the same attitude about housework and how time at home should be spent. Just quitting my job did nothing to change my attitude at home. I had more time, yes. I chose to not use it very well. I continued to spend much of my time wasting it on facebook, pinterest, and other various websites. I watched tons of television. I knitted from time to time. With being pregnant, I napped a lot and went to doctors appointments.
So yeah, I'm a lousy housewife.
Now to change. And I better change now, because it sure isn't going be getting easier to change once the baby is born.
I need to get up in the morning and get ready for my day just as if I am heading to work. Take a shower, brush my hair and teeth (different brushes of course), get out of my PJs and prepare for my day.
I need to take care of myself and not become a frumpy housewife. I need to go outside and go for a walk, work in the yard. Or when winter comes I need to go out and shovel the snow and turn on an exercise DVD and keep moving.
I need to spend time studying my Bible, and reading all the books I've accumulated and never finished. I need to be doing all of those things that I've always said that I would do if I had more time. Because the truth is, I have the time, I just need to spend it better.
Facebook and Pinterest are not bad in small doses, but when I let them consume my life they become a problem.
So all of this is find and dandy. But how do I become a better housewife? All of the things I've mentioned above are good, and they'll help to make me a better person and not a lazy slob.
I always thought that being a good housewife would come naturally to me. My mom was a housewife and stay-at-home-mom until I was 11 years old. You think I would have learned something. My grandmother worked as a nurse up until she retired. She was never a true housewife, but her house keeping skills puts most people I know to shame.
So where did mine go? Maybe I just don't have the genetics. Maybe this is just another set of skills that I need to learn. Any skill set takes time.
Now I'm off to do some research and learn what skills make a good housewife, how to do some of those fancy housewife things, like freezing meals to eat another day, baking breads and such, cleaning schedules to make the whole house keeping thing not so crazy overwhelming.
