A Pasion.

  I am working on a paper for school about Homemaking, and it has been really hard to figure out where to look for reasearch, also a way to tell people about it with out freaking them out.

I want homemaking to be views as a way of living and not as a chore. People think that homemaking is only about sewing and cooking, well its not. Its about time managment, orginizion, child care, self education. Where as cooking and sewing play a big part in the role, its not only about that. In my paper I talk about all of these and about gardening, house cleaning and so forth.

Anyway, while I have been looking for information to use I have come up short, and I was only doing research in the Pioneer area, and I relized that I wasnt looking in the right places, not to mention I was only using one website.

So I was sitting at the comp at 12am thinking of what to type in the search bar, and then the light bulb turned on. I knew what to search. I decided that I didnt need to stick with just pioneers that I should look at other areas of time where homemaking would be needed. So I looked at Civil War books writen about hommaking, or journals writen by woman living during the civil war. I found the most amazing books!! (though of course I havent read them all, but they sound amazing.)

One of which was written by Herrit Beecher Stowe (who, if you dont know, wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.) and her sister Catherine Esther Beecher. I am only on page 26, but I think its worth reading. I'm super excited to read it. And I was able to get it free on my kindle, which is a added bonus. I was also able to find around 50 other books for free that had to do about homemaking, or poeple living during the civil war.

I'm excited to finally be making progress and learnign something new. I will keep you posted about the other books I will read.