Embracing Domesticity

It's been about a month since I've become a "domestic engineer" and I'm loving it. I love waking up every morning and asking myself, "What should I do today?" I'm secretly hoping that my activity for the day will be having a baby, but those dreams are shattered as another day passes with no such luck.

I start my day by preparing Aaron's lunch (which he is thrilled I'm now doing--he hates the expensive cafeteria food at school). Next I shower and get dressed for the day. After that, the sky's the limit. Usually the rest of my day is filled with laundry, sweeping, vacuuming, and picking up sets of plaster teeth from all over the house.

Sometimes it's a day where the pregnancy exhaustion overcomes me and I accomplish absolutely nothing at all. But with the exhaustion I do get those "sudden bursts of energy" that I read about in my pregnancy literature. The other night, I was up until 1:00 am making strawberry jam. Sweet Aaron went to the grocery store for me at 11:00 pm to buy me some fruit pectin. I told him where to find it, but he still had to ask three associates until he found someone who knew what "pectin" was.

I've also gone completely nuts with baking/cooking. I bake bread at least twice a week. I've made banana pudding and peach cobbler from scratch (no Jell-O boxes!). I've made Eggplant Bolognese, homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs (no Ragu!), and spinach salad with a white wine vinaigrette. Needless to say, Aaron is loving it!

I am curious, however, to see if this new behavior will continue once the baby arrives. I know it won't at first, but hopefully I'll get back in this groove. Only time will tell...

All I can say is that I am really happy being "just a housewife."