Cavorting with the Hot Housewife (The Salacious Stories of Rogerstown)

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I strongly believe that God gave me morning sickness to help me deal with the nastiness that sometimes comes along with being a mom. Looking forward to getting back to it and sharing my newest adventure with you-doing homeschool preschool with my almost 3 year old! If I wasn’t hungry at all, but still wanted to feel like I was eating something, I would suck on a Werther’s Original or Preggie Pop. I was a 5th grade teacher at the time, and boy was it hard to hide how sick I was feeling most days before announcing the good news to my students!

Oona and her little brother Baba life on Puffin Rock, a paradise full of shrews, seals, seagulls, and more! I have been wearing pearl necklaces most of my life; accumulated quite the collection of pearl jewelry as well as an impressive collection of vintage brooches. I thought I had everything-nice crib, cute changing table, organized dresser, reupholstered rocking chair…I was READY! Here I was with my two sweet boys peacefully adrift in dreamworld during their naps, laundry eagerly awaiting my hot iron touch and my scratch made spaghetti sauce simmering slowly on the stove top.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Dishes are in the dishwasher, pre-school is done for the day, counters are wiped down, fresh blueberry muffins are cooling, bathrooms are sparkling clean, and for the first time in months, I don’t feel guilty taking a break at naptime! The feeling of panic had gone away and turned into sucking it up and getting it done as quickly and easily as possible! I definitely had a small case of the Baby Blues, but the lack of sleep in particular was so, so hard.

I struggled with this for a long time, wanting to have a prayer journal, starting a prayer journal, not making it past three days in my prayer journal. We go to a 9:00 church service, so we usually just have granola bars, cereal, or freezer breakfast sandwiches. A sleeping baby in your arms is more likely to stay asleep when you put them down if they are laid on warm, fleece sheets during the cold months. I only did this cleaning routine for a week and feel like a ginormous weight has been taken off my shoulders. I don’t need to rock her for an hour; she doesn’t need me to climb in her bed with her to fall asleep.

Make sure you know what you are wearing tomorrow, and, if needed, make sure everyone in your family does so too. So yes I would raid the closet of a 1950’s housewife any day and maybe I should wear red lipstick a little more often, but I am thankful for being a modern day housewife with all its glorious potential. Though being a housewife is more than enough of a job most of the time, I just want to say it is a great feeling to have choices.

Today, I washed all our bedding (which I probably should be doing at least once a month thanks to our two cats!Sure, I would think about it throughout the day, but once a week or two went by, the scriptures and my thoughts on them had come and gone, never to be remembered again. If there was a sermon I really learned a lot from, I sometimes take an entire page and copy my notes down. These are perfect for practicing those swaddling skills you learned in those crazy baby prep classes!