Heart of The Home
I'm the heart of our home.
I don't mean that in a narcissistic, "life revolves around me", kind of way. I say I'm the heart of our home because my main job is to love and care for my family by cultivating an environment that builds strong relationships, first and foremost. The heartbeat of our home is these relationships, and my primary job is to nurture and tend those.
I'm guessing many moms can identify with this mission, but the way we go about doing this can be vastly different. Home cooked meals, gardening, and clean floors are not the end aim, nor are they necessarily the means.
I love an organized, clean home and predictable household routines. Those are my means. I love well in those spaces. Which is not to say I don't love my family if life falls out of those parameters but we all have zones in which we really thrive, and that's mine.
I am at ease within structure.
Making systems, following them, tweaking them, and getting stressed out when I can't systemize something - this is just who I am.
Acknowledging and remembering to be Renee (borrowing from Gretchen Rubin here) has been a very affirming practice for me in the past few months. Of course I had to do a bit of soul-searching and coming back to center to find Renee, but I found her, puttering happily in her home, making order.
Showing up and Better Than Before, a short book review
March 3, 2016
In a lot of areas of my life, I'm noticing it's more helpful to focus on showing up vs. doing something right or good or even making progress.
Personal Care & Seasonal Shifts
February 29, 2016
As an adult, I am responsible to make sure my needs are met by meeting those I'm able to meet and expressing where I need help.
A homeschool and family life schedule with three teenagers
February 23, 2016
Our life schedule in a season of homeschool co-op, skiing, and socially active teenagers.
Heart of the home ~ Introduction & Big Picture
February 22, 2016
The blogs I read these days don't talk too much about household schedules and routines. I wonder if this type of blogging, "this is how I do it", is now passe.
