A Wife After God's Own Heart: Chapter 6

This is about "Keeping up the Home"

Ahhhh... now here's a topic I really wanted to get more out of. This is more of the Proverbs 31 wife, which describes how a wife should be. Of course, everyone knows that a wife should look over and take care of the way things are run at home, but as a working wife, I do find myself falling short on this department. I wanted to skip to Chapter 9 hehe which is for the working women out there. But of course my heart and my priorities will always be on how to make my home clean and inviting and always filled with love.

I wanted to emphasize the part where the authors describes what a wife should not be. In Proverbs 7:11-12 it says the adulteress is always "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. This brings to mind various thoughts. 

Now I got married at 20, at the brink of youth, and didn't even get to experience much travelling, work, and haven't been to any of those bars or what have you. As a young mom, sometimes I was envious of those who were able to go out with their friends and go out for a drink. Most single moms working in call centers act like having a kid did not even affect the way they live. They still go on parties, team buildings, outings and other events. That isn't to say it's wrong to go out with friends, but now I understand why my heart is always heavy when I have to be away from my kid, and that is because I know I should be at home. I should be productive at home, managing it, improving it, making it nice and presentable.

Other wives, on the other hand, also have the supermom syndrome (which I think I have), where they try to do everything at once and please everyone in the family. I work, I do the errands and supervise my son's school and still have to tend to stuff at home. Sigh, just writing about it makes me tired. However, we don't have to be the perfect housewife. I think simply being there there for your son is more important, although a little help on the organization department is desperately needed.

(And by the way, I added Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe by Sarah Mae in my Amazon wish list since this seems like the perfect book for this topic right now. A breather? Oh definitely a must buy. Thanks to Courtney for suggesting and featuring this book in her site, Women Living Well.)

With that, we as mothers and wives shouldn't have excuses like being too tired, or that we're a working mom -- it's still important to keep the house a home.

Here's the little things that I already love to do:

1. Make the beds daily. But of course!
2. Make a daily to-do list. 
3. Make a weekly meal menu.
4. Do one thing you've been putting off. Hmmmm...
5. Keep a daily log of time spent on your housework.
6. Work on your attitude (heartily and willingly) 
7. Work on growing.