Homemaking

Are you making your home a better place for your immediate family?

Are you making your home a better place for yourself?

Are you making your home a better place for others?

Staycation
Today I was going to round up some old posts that I wrote in 2011. Then I decided to tell you what my favorite Christmas gift was, but I'm going to make you keep on guessing about that {nope, it wasn't the loaf of bread from my funny son and it wasn't the fluorescent green duck tape. It wasn't the ivory soap or the listerine....}

Then I read a guest post over at BloggingWithAmy. Laura wrote {click over and read the whole post for it to make sense}:

Blogging is only worth my while when I take myself to my own office hours, ask hard questions, and formulate some answers. This means, my blog is an avenue to personal growth – not to money, fame, or power.

As I was reading that post I kept thinking that you could replace blogging and insert homemaking. So right now I'm asking myself some hard questions:

• What on earth am I a homemaker for? 
• Why don't I want to have an easier job? 
• Why don't I want to enter the workforce again? 

Honestly this is the hardest job I've ever had. Sometimes I long for the days that I would walk in the door at work and everyone would yell at me - THE COMPUTER SYSTEM IS DOWN {you know back in the day of mainframe computer systems where hundreds of people couldn't work if the computer system was down.}

Sometimes I want my paycheck back. Sometimes I want to quit being responsible and go out to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes I want to run to the grocery store and buy whatever I want for dinner.

You know what? Even if I had "real job" {you know what I mean....outside the home} I would still be a homemaker. The grass isn't ALWAYS greener on the other side. I have figured out a few things along the way.....mainly this:

If you don't take care of yourself, it is almost impossible to make your home a happy place. 

Choose yourself first! If you don't know how to take care of your home and it's a wreck - start following FLYlady. She will show you how to get your house in order {not perfect} AND take care of yourself.

Occasionally when I read other homemaking blogs I get totally exhausted. There's NO way I could do everything they do and still be happy. Then I have to remember...when you read my blog, you only see a glimpse of my life. The put together part. You don't see the unmopped floor, the crabby mom that yells at her kids, the crumbs all over the floor or the laundry piling up.

You don't see the Starburst on the counter or the ice cream in the freezer. So when I talk about the primal or paleo diet please know that we eat junk food all too often, but a LOT less than we used to!

Sometimes I have to quit reading other blogs and focus on ME!

My kids are out of school this week so I'm going to continue on with my staycation. I'll be back posting after the new year...you will NOT read any New Years Resolutions here...you might see a New Years Non-Resolution though!

Go ask yourself some hard questions!

This post has been linked to We are THAT Family.