I was sitting in the teacher's lunchroom, sniffing, yet again, these delicious concoctions coming out of the microwave and toaster oven - jealous as I heated up yet another Smart Ones frozen meal. I imagined myself, sitting at their dinner table just 18 hours earlier, sampling their lasagnas and chicken caccitores as they came out of the oven... fresh, hot, delectable.
Lasagna is made in the oven. Right?
See, this is my first problem. I don't know how to cook. At all. But it's the first of many problems. I can't cook, or sew, or clean because I never learned the proper way to do any of those things. I always truly believed, all those times when my mom tried so desperately to teach me, that my future husband would not only know how to take care of these silly and mundane tasks, but excel at them.
And then, 15 years later, I got married.
This blog is an attempt, a resolution to myself and to my family, to learn to be domestic. I'm not trying to demean women or "put them where they're supposed to be" by any means. I'm a working woman, and now a working mom, and love my job. But I want to be a better contributor to my family. I want to learn how to create nutritious meals. I want to be able to repair the holes in my little boy's jeans. I want to learn how to set a table and have a dinner party and have some sense of etiquette. I want to feel like I am in control of my home - not overwhelmed and out of place in it.
So this is my resolution for 2010. To gain control of my house. To take back this $240,000 investment and make it more valuable than money can buy. I hope you'll follow me on my adventures in discovering my own home, and my own (dis?)abilities. And if you were a little girl, like me, who believed her prince charming would be more of a housemaid than a life partner, this blog is for you too.
1 comment:
I give you props for believing from a young age that your MAN would do all the work (even if it didn't turn out that way). Now that's a progressive woman!
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