Saturday 16 December 2023
It took you quite a while dear to take down your pants and underwear like you were told, but since it’s your first time we won’t hold that against you. Now you can go upstairs knock on the first door to your right and wait until you’re called in. Don’t worry, he’ll know just how to take care of you.
How to not die of boredom doing housechores as a stay at home wife
I think there's a lot of idealization in the feminine community about house chores, and while housekeeping is beautiful, is fulfilling, is art there's also the little part that when you are cleaning the bathrooms or you have to wash the diapers that you are simply not going to feel like a magic goddess.
So how do we keep sane? How do I finish that infinite amount of dishes so I can go back to the good part, crating new dishes for my family? How can I finish the laundry monster so I can make a new toy for my baby, I can go and tend to the garden, I can go walk outside, I can do all the beautiful things that being home is all about and not just the cleaning?
Don't feel guilty. We are all told if we just feel grateful enough suddenly we are going to like doing dishes and that's simply never going to be true. With this idea, we not only have the guilt of the giant pile of undone dinner dishes, we are also plagued by the idea of not being good enough for not being irredeemable in love with it.
Don't wait for the perfect routine, the perfect moment, the perfect mood, the perfect enlightened time when suddenly the dirty house will light in soft dim light and you will clean everything surrounded by a warm cozy aura of happiness because that's not going to happen. It may if you want to, but you will have to decide that's the ambience and not just wait for it to pop up suddenly.
We can be happy in the chaos, in the tiredness, in the not perfection of the moment. Such is life, this small, seemingly endless things are also part of this beautiful life.
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