My conversation with a friend yesterday:
Me: I've been working on making and canning spaghetti sauce this morning.
Friend: I am so impressed with your domesticity!
Me: I don't do this kind of thing all the time.
Friend: Yes, but in spurts, you are so domestic!
The conversation made me laugh, but it also made me think. I post my domestic successes on Facebook and my blog sometimes and I wonder how that comes across. I'm not meaning to make myself out to be better than anyone else. I'd like to say I'm not trying to brag, but in all honesty, I probably AM trying to brag. I am not like this all the time, so I like to brag about it when I am. Gardening and preserving and cleaning and doing household things do not come easy to me. So I am celebrating my successes when I have them.
I have friends who do all of the following in one day: harvest some veggies, can them, cook lunch and dinner, make cookies, take their kids to various activities, and wash and dry their super-mom capes . . . all in one day! I cannot do that.
To turn these:
into this:
took me an entire day. (Actually, 1 1/2 days because I picked the veggies the evening prior.) And I had to pick up pizza for dinner because I didn't feel like cooking after all that. I might have gotten one load of laundry done, also. But that's it.
So take my FaceBragging with a grain of salt. I'm not all that.
Back to the bragging, though, I am very proud of my husband for planting and caring for such an incredible garden. And I am proud of myself for taking the time to harvest, wash, prepare and cook the vegetables into a healthy spaghetti sauce. I look forward to retrieving these jars from the pantry this winter and enjoying 6 summery fresh meals when it's cold and dark outside.
