How adaptable and creative is your cooking? …the wise farm housekeeper will seek to know ways of cooking beans, cabbage, turnips, asparagus, the precious Irish potato and other vegetables and the fruits that grow on the farm in abundance. -1905 Choosing to be a homemaker is often a choice to have less income, so strategy is essential when it comes…

For all of the women that make being a housewife their career, there are reasons to love your job. Here are my top 5 reasons. It takes a genius to be a first-rate housekeeper. -1884 Well, that explains a lot. Mystery solved. Now I know why I still haven’t figured this whole housewifery thing out. No one’s ever referred to…

Is homemaking truly a job? When a wife says, “I’m a homemaker,” many people only hear it to mean “I don’t have to work.” How does a homemaker respond to that bit of ridiculousness? Nothing could be further from the truth! Unfortunately, that attitude has persisted for generations. Enjoy part 1 of this essay. It was written in 1932, by…

This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. (An excerpt from Two Years as an Amish Schoolteacher, continued from previous post….) The families soon began to trickle in–parents, babies, grandparents. Some came by car with a driver, many came by horse and buggy. Some of the men carried in with them the benches they used for church…