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When Annie asked me to write this post, I was excited. Modern Housekeeping – what an interesting topic! This should be fun to write about. I feature myself as a Modern Housekeeper with a traditional bent. However, as I began to collect my thoughts and actually put them down on paper (yes, I still write on paper!), so many thoughts and ideas ran through my head. Which direction should I go?
Do I write about how I keep a home? My housekeeping schedules that are set up for a task a day? The morning and bedtime routines my kids and I have to keep us on task (and so no one forgets to brush their teeth)?
My ideas on what makes a house a home? Is it love, laughter, good snacks?
Do I write about how I never thought I would be a SAHM and had a grand plan of a successful career before I had children? How I thought I had to make a difference in the world before I realized I needed to make a difference in my family?
Would readers want to hear about how I home school my daughter so she can be shaped and molded by her parents and carefully chosen others and not her 9 year old peers?
Should I write about how planning my meal each week saves my family and me time, money and stress?
How about disciplining children with love, yet effectively enough to keep them from misbehaving again? OK. I don’t know how to pull that off yet, but if you can, let me know! SOON!!
Do I write about how it is difficult sometimes to balance family life and blogging?
Keeping a home in this day and age is a challenge. There is so much to consider and to balance. We are pulled in so many directions and often inaccurately feel we need to be perfect in each area! For such a modern, convenient society, modern housekeeping is just plain hard! And apparently so is writing about it!
Today’s 2 Cents Courtesy of…
Marci: encourager, blogger, wife, mom, woman who strives to eliminate the busy and pursue the meaningful. She helps others do the same with her practical wisdom on
organizing and
simplifying and her regular features like
menu plans and
an Article Club. I’ve gained from her blog inspiration to change for the better, and practical tips on how to do it. Head on over to
Overcoming Busy to learn more about (and from) this gracious woman.
Thanks for letting me be a part of this series! I am really looking forward to the rest of the week!
You are right, Marci, it is hard!
You’re right – the hardest part, I think, is figuring out what to focus on. That’s the biggest challenge for me, because the priorities do change as children grow, jobs change, circumstances, etc. So what was most important once becomes not as important…
Thanks for sharing with us, Marci!
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Marci, I ask myself those same questions every day it seems. The specifics of what I do each day are different, so the wording may be framed in a different way. But, the core questions are the same. I love the premise of this series that Annie has conceived — finding the commonalities among different choices and lifestyles of women as home keepers and sustainers. Thanks for sharing your thought process.
For what it’s worth, I’m definitely thinking good snacks have an important role. *wink*