Q: What does a homemaking housewife do?A: She makes home awesome!
When not making home awesome, I take it easy by playing and making puzzles at JigsawPlanet, and adding pro-housework items to my Clean House Guide shop at Zazzle.
Being anti-housework is the status quo and so easy to do. Been there, done that, time for something new!
The challenge isn't only in doing housework without grumbling about it, but in being proud of one's home and being proud of doing a dirty job that few women take pride in these days -- yet they take pride in being employees with dollar figures attached to their heads, as if that's superior to being an indentured servant? Gag me with a vacuum hose!
As a housewife, I don't have to ask for days off or wait to be told when I can go on break; nor do I change empty toilet paper rolls for inept coworkers who think they're worth being paid yet can't clean up after themselves; but I digress.
Not only do most modern American women not take pride in housework, they don't know how to do housework like a professional because nobody trained them, most likely because their working mothers were too busy working and didn't know how to do housework themselves, and when they did do the housework they did more grumbling and complaining than finding joy in caring for their homes and families; but that's only if the mother was around, considering there are women who have grown up without full-time mothers in their lives due to the ease of divorce and/or women believing they don't have to put up with anything they don't want to tolerate, including their husbands and the children they created.
Thus the cycle repeats, until a strong-willed woman chooses to break the cycle she learned through her upbringing, by rejecting what she learned at home and in school, and what she subconsciously learns every day in popular programming that reinforces the outdated feminist ideals that girls and women are only great if they work in the man's world while ignoring the needs of a man at home -- I'd rather do what my husband asks of me rather than pleasing the (lady) boss man, thank you very much!
It doesn't take strength to do what every other woman is doing; that's giving in to peer pressure and going with the herd -- and cows love being in a herd!
It takes strength and courage to do what every other woman isn't doing, and that includes doing housework with pride as a dedicated full-time homemaker. It's being different from the herd that takes a lot of guts which most women lack these days -- and there's nothing gutsy in being a status quo feminist in the 21st Century!
I highly suspect that women don't know they can be housewives and homemakers because nothing in popular culture tells them they can do that, and that's why I'm saying it:
You don't have to work outside the house and you don't have to give your all to a business while your home and family suffers the consequences!Visit my Homemaking page to find helpful resources for all things homemaking, and enjoy a well-earned break with an inspiring puzzle!
Click the restart arrows to start the puzzle again or click the link below to go to the site:
New mugs & magnets for strong women now in my Zazzle shop!
