Why Howeskeeping?

It's Julie's fault, really. Or Jen's fault for suggesting that I rent the "Julie & Julia" movie. The film inspired my BFFs to make their own forays into Mastering the Art of French Cooking. As for me, I'm far more inclined to enjoy the fruits of their kitchen labor than emulate Julia Child. Although both Julia and I came to marriage late in life and without adequate culinary skills. I'm encouraged to know that she took her first cooking class at 37. Perhaps there are new tricks for this old dog to master as well.

It's Julie with whom I identify--"A.D.D. is why I stink at housework"--and her blogging adventure that has intrigued me. Did you know that the Julie/Julia Project blog is still online? http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html
I guess that's the thing about internet publishing. It's here to stay. The discipline--or the "regimen" as she called it--of the blogging of the Julia project transformed her. Perhaps it will have a similar effect on me. If nothing else, it will give my brain a bit more exercise than the random grocery lists I write, and more often than not, leave on the counter. Again, it's the A.D.D.

Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not a housekeeper. Most days the dust bunnies are gaining on me, and while I corral them occasionally, it's only when they reach the saddle 'em and ride into the sunset size that I wage war. It mattered little in my single days, and I seem to think I was better at apt.keeping. Since becoming Mrs. and now as a SAHM, I've found my hopes of attaining domestic goddess status to be as elusive as my attempts to maintain order in the presence of an increasingly mobile toddler I affectionately call Hurricane Ellie.

Although I am not on a year-long mission to master 537 French recipes, I am on a life-long quest to answer the call of Titus 2. In doing so, I hope to fulfill the God-given responsibility of "keeper at home" in service to my dear husband, my darling daughter, and my deserving Lord. For this, I'll need divine assistance.

3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.