I'm currently sitting in my kitchen writing this article. All I can smell is burnt pizza because yes, I burnt a FROZEN PIZZA. My roommates can confirm this but nonetheless, I want to be a housewife when I "grow up." I want to stay at home with my kids and clean and cook dinner (even if it is just burnt pizza). That's a lot of what I want out of life.
There's a stigma for women today that says this, basically: If your goal in life is to stay at home, cook, clean and watch the kids, you aren't ambitious. You're aren't independent. You aren't good enough to be a twenty-first century woman and you're outdated.
That stigma is wrong.
If you want to be a housewife, you want to be a housewife. You can still be ambitious and have goals but maybe your goal is just to raise a family and cook and clean. And honestly, that goal is fine. God gave me this burning desire to have a family, to raise my kids right, to make sure they are taken care of, and how dare someone tell me that that is wrong of me or unambitious of me?
I am ambitious. I like to hike and draw and play instruments. I'm independent, and I can sure as heck take care of myself. I'm not outdated. I believe that I am one-hundred percent equal to men, and I stand up for what I believe in. I believe I can do whatever I please and with that being said, I believe that I can be a housewife and a stay at home mom one day.
My mom worked when I was younger and still works now, and I praise her for that. She still managed to take care of multiple children, work full time, have laundry folded, put food in our mouths, and she was good at it. I love to see mother's that work full-time and still make it to every sporting event, every dance recital. I love to see father's doing the same thing. That just isn't for everyone. I don't want to drop my child off at daycare everyday and go to a job for eight hours that I most likely hate. I want to lay in the floor with my children and watch Mickey Mouse, take them to the park and read them all Bible stories before tucking them in before nap time.
That is still ambitious. That is still "in date." That is okay. Let's erase the stigma that being a housewife is bad. Let people choose what they want to do with their lives and don't attach a meaning to it. God gave some people different desires than others, and we should all lift each other up for our unique wants in life instead of putting each other down based on our own opinions.
