Housewifery.

Last night I couldn't sleep. In fact, I'm finding it hard to keep to a sleep schedule these days, presumably because my life has no schedule. Having been in the Air force for the past 4 years I had become accustomed to nothing but scheduling. Now thankfully I am living out my sweet freedom and couldn't be happier at the simplicity of determining MY OWN SCHEDULE! Mine! sighhh. Those who have served know the joys of the feeling you get when you cease being a institutionalized robot and become an individual. The military does have its high points, but none of that is at all the point of this post.

Pinterest. Such a wonderful website that affords women the ability to feel crafty and domestic through nothing more than clicking "pin" from their cell phones. For me, the satisfaction of pinning a link to my "Things to Make Someday" board isn't near what it would be if I actually had made any of those things, nevertheless, it is much greater that the satisfaction I found scrolling through the silliness my friends posted on Facebook or the never ending stream of news coming from the fascinating state of Florida.

Given my newly acquired open schedule, new home, and being a newly wed, I decided that it was finally time to dive deep into the recipes and crafts that I had once regarded as pipe-dreams. Having been a career woman, I always dreamed of one day achieving "Housewife Status" as if it were like winning at super mario. I assumed that one day, after many years of work, my husband and I would decided to have babies... soooo many babies... and I would stay home to raise them. As of now, I have achieved the husband portion of that dream, though we have not started on the baby portion. Still, as I wait for my next semester's course load to begin  I've started my housewifing early.