Today is the day you get to show us all how you made things clean and pretty above your kitchen sink. Why do I go on and on about this?
What is it with me and this kitchen sink thing?
Well, I'll tell you. Over the years I've noticed that many women do get the idea that they would like to stay home and take care of their family. They feel torn away when they leave home, as if a part of them gets left behind -- and that feeling is far stronger for them than the feeling they have when they leave the outside world and feel a little torn about that. I think most people understand that you can't have everything, and they make a choice.
But many of these same women do go just a teensy bit insane (and I say this because I was sort of this way myself, although I had no outside life I cared anything about at all) when they stay home.
And part of that insanity is that it is truly difficult to live somewhere that's probably far from anyone you know or are related to, have no friends who are willing to do what you are doing, and spend all your time with small children when you don't feel very well to start with. I understand all that, believe me!
Part of it, though, has to do with not understanding or not being willing to commit yourself to the little tasks that make up this life.
Just as I suppose a bank executive has some little tedious tasks that, when done with finesse and elegance, become pleasurable, so the wife and mother has the ability to turn something that seems like drudgery into a pleasure and even a prayer.
This is not just in our head or our attitude, though! It's very material and palpable. It's visual and appeals to or repels the other senses as well. So things have to look nice and smell nice and feel nice and sound nice and taste nice for them to be felt by us to be nice! (Mind that I'm not saying they have to be expensive or nice according to what the magazines and catalogs try to tell us are nice, necessarily. Just simply nice.)
So that's why I say to make the area around your sink pretty, according to what you think is pretty! And not just pretty, but maybe even a place that your prayers rise like incense to Heaven even while your hands are in soapy water.
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