https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/O-T-What-s-wrong-with-being-a-housewife/m-p/349496#M13616 <P>When I was a little girl, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a homemaker. I played with baby dolls pretty much constantly when I was little, then Barbies. When my friends' Barbies were dressing for dates and adventures, mine was cooking, keeping house and caring for the smaller dolls. I'm serious. I made meals for them out of Play-doh and kitchens and bedrooms out of shoe boxes. </P> <P>The kicker is that those were the 1960s. When I went to college in the 70s, the tides had turned. Being a stay home wife/mother was a choice that was frowned upon. My mother-in-law had her PhD and was a practicing psychologist, so DH never expected I would want to forego a career outside the home. I stayed home for two glorious years when my babies were being born, then back to work. Now that my kids are grown and it seems apparent that DH will be retiring before I am, I realize that I blew it. </P> <P>Yes, I love my career and there's a comfort in knowing I could support myself if I were on my own, but there's a huge part of me that wishes I'd been true to my heart and stayed home to put all my effort into being a housewife and mother. I mentioned this to my friends, recently and they couldn't believe I would ever have considered this.</P> <P>Are there any homemaker wannabes out there besides me?</P> Sat, 17 Aug 2013 23:53:55 GMT house cat 2013-08-17T23:53:55Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/O-T-What-s-wrong-with-being-a-housewife/m-p/349496#M13616 <P>When I was a little girl, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a homemaker. I played with baby dolls pretty much constantly when I was little, then Barbies. When my friends' Barbies were dressing for dates and adventures, mine was cooking, keeping house and caring for the smaller dolls. I'm serious. I made meals for them out of Play-doh and kitchens and bedrooms out of shoe boxes. </P> <P>The kicker is that those were the 1960s. When I went to college in the 70s, the tides had turned. Being a stay home wife/mother was a choice that was frowned upon. My mother-in-law had her PhD and was a practicing psychologist, so DH never expected I would want to forego a career outside the home. I stayed home for two glorious years when my babies were being born, then back to work. Now that my kids are grown and it seems apparent that DH will be retiring before I am, I realize that I blew it. </P> <P>Yes, I love my career and there's a comfort in knowing I could support myself if I were on my own, but there's a huge part of me that wishes I'd been true to my heart and stayed home to put all my effort into being a housewife and mother. I mentioned this to my friends, recently and they couldn't believe I would ever have considered this.</P> <P>Are there any homemaker wannabes out there besides me?</P> Sat, 17 Aug 2013 23:53:55 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/O-T-What-s-wrong-with-being-a-housewife/m-p/349496#M13616 house cat 2013-08-17T23:53:55Z