Mom University

Maybe it's the change in the weather. I love this time of year. I always find myself longing to go back to school, to learn new things and to become better. It's funny because I don't remember loving school so much when I was in it. Maybe that is normal. Maybe someday I will go back to school and get my Masters degree or maybe even go to law school - I'd love to be a guardian ad litem some day when my kids are all grown up. But for now, I love my job of being a homemaker and don't really need any more formal education to do it well. But there is a lot of training in homemaking that I could still really use. I love learning from my mom. She is so amazing. She knows how to do EVERYTHING domestic. She really does. Sometimes she makes me crazy when I ask how she makes something and she says she has no recipe or instructions - she just throws stuff in and it always turns out great. She came over today and helped be can 31 more pints of raspberries jam. (Hema and I went and picked them last night.) I also made a big double batch of laundry soap. I've been making my own and using it for about 6 months now and can't believe how much money I wasted on Tide through the years. Then I made a huge batch of spaghetti sauce with lots of yummy fresh veggies in it and froze 4 containers for later. It's nearly 10:00 and the kids are tucked into bed, the mess is cleaned up and I am tired, but excited to know that on a cold winters day I can bake up some wheat bread and spread on the raspberry jam and enjoy the fruits of my labor. I've always sort of longed to have lived back in the days of the pioneers or maybe the time of my favorite book These is my Words. I somehow feel more connected to those times, to my ancestors when I do these things that they too did, learning from my mother- what she learned from hers and she from hers and so on. It's hard to explain it, but I love it. I love feeling part of a greater legacy of womanhood, and homemaking and motherhood. Thanks Mom, for taking the time to help me be better!