A Women's Ultimate Career
Have you, as women, been asked: "What do you do?"
This is a loaded question for many women as homemaking is no longer the "popular" or proper place for a woman in our society. When a woman is asked "what do you do?" and she responds with "I'm a Mom" or "I'm a Homemaker," she is usually met with a condescending "That's it?" or a ridiculed "Oh, so you don't work?" or a belittling "Oh, you are just being lazy, why don't you get a real job and actually help your husband out?"
Instead homemaker has become only something a “lazy” person does when they don’t want to fulfill a career. But have you ever wondered what a Homemaker does in a given day/week? A Homemaker fills her days with Cooking, cleaning, budgeting, laundry, sewing, decorating, educating herself to better her homemaking skills, gardening, Preserving food such as canning, dehydrating and more. Not to mention also caring for the children. Not just cleaning them and feeding them, but also nurturing the children, teaching them and loving them. A homemaker’s duties fill an entire day and never end. There are always meals to fix, a house to clean, children to tend, laundry to mend, and all on top of being a WIFE to the man who is providing for her and the children. There are no sick days, no paid vacation, and no designated "me" time. There is no 9-5 shift with a lunch break. A homemaker works 24/7 for her family.
Yet somehow the recognition, the honor of being a homemaker has been lost. Homemaker is no longer even considered an appropriate career. But in truth, as C.S. Lewis wrote
"Homemaker is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career."
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