Laowai

I named this post HOUSE PROUD just because I like the sound of it and the idea of it. In reality – I often feel too unmotivated to be considered HOUSE PROUD. Brian has been away most of the week. When he’s gone I usually clean in fits and spurts. I’m much more motivated when he’s around to notice. Sometimes when I’m feeling particularly lazy I think about women in the past and how laundry was such and huge undertaking. Or I think about having to make three meals a day everyday instead of making just a few dinners from scratch each week like I do. The thought of having to kill the chicken and haul water from who knows where just to get dinner started usually gives me the jump I need to pick up the clutter, plan a meal or throw some clothes in the washer.

Aaaah I do live a charmed life.

“If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.”
– Truman Capote

I’m curious about the context of this quote – just like HOUSE PROUD, I like the sound of it and the idea of it.

Here’s a woman taking care of her house – a painting by one of my favorite artists Carl Larsson.