Project Homemaker

I am a forward thinker. While my plans to serve a full-time mission in the near future are exhilarating, I cannot help but do some mental planning for when I return to Arizona. I spent several hours today trying to compile a bucket list that included travel plans, humanitarian projects, and goals to help me "get ahead". Then I realized...I don't want to travel alone; I don't want to do service in a foreign country when people need me here; I don't want to get 3 more degrees just so I can brag about it. 

What I really want is to be a homemaker.

When I get home, I want to become financially independent. If that means taking on two jobs to pay the bills and have a life, so be it. I want to learn how to cook and invite people over to enjoy my food. I want to become really fit by exercising daily. I want to have a one-bedroom apartment with a roommate who I can serve. I want to decorate my space. I want to learn to be thrifty by learning how to sew and by shopping at DI. I want my home to be a place where the Spirit can be felt and a place where I can invite members not of my faith. I want my home to be a place of peace and refuge. Because, after all, there is nothing as exhilarating as the Spirit and no success can compensate for failure in the home.


Call me whatever you want. Plain Jane. Boring. Unambitious. But this is the vision I have for myself. I am happy with it.