Before I was approached about this blog project, I never would have called myself a ‘homemaker’.
I mean, I do spend all my free time doing homemaker-y things- cooking new and interesting dishes, tending the garden and the yard, playing with my dog, adventuring with my husband, hanging laundry in the sun, knitting, reading, writing, taking pictures, canning produce in season, sweeping, washing dishes, planning for our family- but I spend 40 hours a week outside the home, working at a desk, in front of a computer. The ‘homemakers’ I know (well, pretty much every female I know, in fact) are home all day, doing the above listed things full-time. Does that make me just a part-time homemaker? Depends how you look at it. The difference is the amount of time we have to be homemakers- for my friends, they have all day, from when they wake up until when they go to bed. For me, I have the time outside of the hours of 7-4 on weekdays, and weekends. So, does that make me a software engineer who cooks and gardens as a hobby, or a homemaker who happens to work?
My first love and first priority is my husband, my family, and my home. I’ve been married three years (well, three years minus two days), and love the adventure and teamwork that marriage brings. I’ve also been working three years (three years minus 18 days, to be exact) at my current job, and, while I love what I do and where I work, it takes second place in my life to the “real” work of relationships and home. I’m only 25, so I have my whole life ahead of me to figure out what the balance between these two ‘workplaces’ should look like. What I know now: I love the beauty and peace that come with a welcoming home and happy family. Nothing beats that. Nothing.
A note on the picture above: I love sunflowers. I have a food blog called Sunflowers in my Kitchen, because, seriously, everything in my kitchen has sunflowers on it. My primary blog is Keeping Feet and I can be found on Twitter at @keepingfeet - come over & say Hi! – Joanna
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