“Honey, I am going to have to write you up for tonight’s dinner”

Sometimes I think if being a housewife were an actual “Job” I would get fired, or at least I would be on probation. I enjoy being a mom and a wife, more then enjoy it, I love it. But the actual talent needed to be a good housewife– cooking, cleaning, shopping for bargains–I simply lack.

I have hope the overwhelming love I have for my family will, in the end, outshine my inability to poach an egg or keep up with the laundry. I’m pretty sure it will…