connected to history

I love being a homemaker. There is something so remnicsent about it. I feel when I am making homemade bread or biscuits or feeding our backyard chickens or sewing curtains for the kids' room, that I am connected with the past. I imagine, as I create these memories with my children that I am recreating the past.

I have a cookbook with recipes for children from the 1930's. Everytime we cook from it I think about the decades of moms who have made the same recipes with their children. I think of the new generation of children who I am enriching by passing on the same traditions.

I guess tradition is the point. It is a tradition that it grounded in the past. It is solid and reassuring that for generations people have been instilling the same values and lessons that have been passed through the generations. With the rapidly changing world we live in, there is a comfort in the things that stay the same. Things that are constant.

Another reason I love homemaking is for a reason of economics. Making playdough takes 5 min if that and only costs a few cents. It uses things I have in my kitchen already and it is healthier for my children to play with than the stuff I buy in a store. And if your children are like mine, then they lose or dry it all out in a few weeks. Making bread from scratch is much cheaper than the bread that is in the store- up to $5 a loaf compared to $1. Not only do I save money but it is healthier for my children.