Housewife /noun/- a married woman whose main occupation is caring for her family, managing household affairs, and doing housework
So like, being a housewife in real life is nothing like being a real housewife on Bravo channel??? How could this happen, I’m shook. Truth is, being a housewife means you actually have to do housework and it’s not as fun and glamorous as you think. It’s a constant chore and I was not graced with the OCD cleaning gene.
But I like the idea of being a housewife. The beautifully decorated and organized home, home-cooked healthy but tasty recipes, and holiday and game night parties that your friends can’t get enough of. Instead I have a semi-organized home half decorated with Hobby Lobby mixed in with unorganized crap, quick recipes that I hope are good that I steal from Pintrest, and parties that are decorated by dollar store trinkets.
I hope you just nodded and said, “girl, same” and know the struggles of wanting to have your life look like an Instagram “influencer” that has posts including #ad and use those filters that you had to pay extra for but instead opt to focus your energy on other areas of your life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on the Instagram influencers, seriously props to you for getting to that level. I just don’t have enough energy or motivation to get to that level. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait minute……YOU’RE LIFE IS NOT VALUED BY HOW PERFECT, FUN, PUT TOGETHER IT LOOKS LIKE IN A PHOTO. Care more about your own mental health than by some unrealistic, altered, fake posts (and again not hating on the other talented bloggers out there). Honestly, why do we even care about that stuff. And by stuff I mean how we are portrayed on social media. Now don’t get me wrong, a lot of posts are genuine and add enrichment to your life but there are some that can hinder it. I can go more into detail about that, but it’ll have to wait for another blog post.
In “The Basic Housewife Diaries”, I’ll show you my attempts of becoming a housewife. Maybe I should rename the blog to “Basic Housewife in Training”? IDK TBD. Follow me as I learn how to fall in love with decorating nicely and cleaning (more like tolerating cleaning and finding how to do it the quickest way possible), learn new recipes that everyone loves (still stealing them from Pintrest), and how to fine-tune becoming a host and having memorable parties.
This should be a fun ride
XOXO
Your Basic Housewife (in training)
P.S.- LOLOL I forgot like the most important duties of a housewife….being a wife and a mother. Having a baby turns your brain into mush. I’ll become raw and exposed as I take you on my journey of Motherhood and being the best wife I can be. It’s a messy life I live but that’s the fun of it, always learning, always changing and always growing into a better person. I almost just typed live, laugh, love but realized I don’t have the “can I speak to the manager” haircut to match it. And I just realized those are the exact words that have been in my Instagram bio for years so brb need to change that asap