Pansies in the rain, my garden, February 2009
If I really, really wrote from my heart, this blog would be all about what it means to make a home for a family. I am now an empty-nester and I have been told all my adult life that I would lose interest in homemaking by the time the kids left home, but I find that I am more into it than ever.
After almost 35 years of experience in the fine art of making a home, I am delighted to discover that I finally have time to do it right. I can plan meals at leisure and surprise my husband with something nice to eat. After I spend the day cleaning the house I can go on an errand and come back to find it just the way I left it, tidy and welcoming. I have time to create things with my hands and time to organize the clutter of family mementos I have saved up in boxes. My garden is finally shaping up to be the little bit of paradise I always wanted it to be.
Maybe I will blog about home and family for a while.
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1 comments:
I am going to borrow and adapt Jim Forest's acknowledgment to his wife:
"I bow to my wife, Cheryl, beloved companion in prayer, reading, writing, parenthood, and pilgrimage . . . (my additions follow . . .) and gardening, and meal preparation and feasting, and homemaking and home enjoyment, and many other ways too numerous to be mentioned here."
Forest is the author of Living with Wisdom,
A Life of Thomas Merton, Revised Edition, Orbis Books 2008.
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