Welcome to my blog

Hi all. Welcome to my blog. The original purpose and motivation for this blog is to fulfill an assignment for a communication course I am taking at Georg Mason University, but I have decided I might as well have fun with the assignment and make my posts as fun and interesting as I can. When assigned to pick and interest and write a blog about it for the next several months topics ranging from books, movies, food, and news all jumped into my head, but when I really thought about what fulfills my time, energy and thoughts all day I realized it was being a mother and wife.

Now I realize for many, especially of my generation, this may sound a bit too June Cleaver for their tastes, but my life is far from the fictionalized archetypal stereotype of the 60's, few are. Nor would I want it to be so. However, in today's world, a world filled with successful women in every frontier, I find women are concerned less and less with trying to prove ourselves capable in life and we are now ready and willing to devote ourselves to what we love.

For me these loves are my family. While some may call my interests in cooking, and crafting matriarchal or my obligations to my family and home domestic but I choose to do these things not based upon any obligations or constraints I feel, but upon my own personal willingness and desires to do so.

A new definition of what motherhood truly represents is being created right now by women everywhere. Labels such as housewife, homemaker, caretaker, and career women are no longer sufficient in today's world, if not ever, as women try to straddle each of these roles simultaneously. This blog to an extent will be a representation of that. As I balance being a student, mom, expectant mother, lover of arts and literature, movie enthusiast, my own top chef, housekeeper, and a contributing member of society I hope to try and share with you what being a "housewife" of the 21st century really is.