Continuing Onward
Do you ever question why you have taken something on? I know I do. I am an idea person and I can get a bit annoying when I process them. Thank you to all of my friends and family, especially my daughters, who endure my ideas. As talk transitioned to action when I began going public with my business idea, Middle Rose Life, that is when the questioning began. They come at me pretty regularly. My daughters are incredibly helpful and supportive, without them, I would have given up.
What exactly is Middle Rose Life? Well, it is essentially a school of homemaking, a place where I can teach skills with the goal of merging creativity and productivity for the purpose of creating a loving home. Many people already have these skills, they grew up with them, but from my perspective those numbers are shrinking, not growing. I am referring to skills like, meal planning and prep, home organization, budgeting, sewing, and people nurturing. Things that can sound kind of boring unless…unless you add the dimensions of creativity and expressions of love. To boil it all down, a well functioning home with an end goal - a home where love is a constant.
Homemaking sounds so old fashioned. Yet in my heart, I know that it is an essential life skill. We live in such a strange world where photos on Facebook allow us to create a reality that is validated by the numbers of followers we have. That kind of validation is like a house of cards, it can end in a moment. For me, having generations of those I love following in the things they have learned from me is a truer validation.
In my opinion, homemaking is a skill and also a science. People learn the skill from the homes they grow up in or they go to school to learn the science. I have been privileged to study both ways. My parents taught me homemaking as they loved, nurtured and provided for me. College taught me homemaking in the classroom. Others have taught me homemaking through life encounters, both in the US and abroad.
The skill is not as clearly defined as the science of chemistry, for example. It is also as varied as the skill of gardening in that methods are different in places all over the world; yet there are basics that are constant everywhere - the science. The basics can be implemented anywhere. The lack of skill training is visible anywhere where homemaking is poorly implemented. The evidence is broken families and broken lives.
So, I will continue to press through to develop this school of homemaking that has been so hard for me to define. It is, however, becoming clearer to me with each new challenge. I am learning where to find time and space for my classes and breaking out of my reserved nature to meet people in places like the recent craft show at Mt. Airy Orchards shown in the photo above. I am finding joy and friends in the process. I won’t allow uncertainty hold me back.
So, thank you to each and every one of you who have attended my classes, purchased products, blessed me with feedback, and who take the time to read my writing! I appreciate you more than you know.
Happy Homemaking!
Pam