1 post tagged “domestic bliss”

I had a conversation with our auto insurance agent last week that went something like this....

Insurance Agent - So, you still work for Company X, correct?
Me - No, I don't work there anymore.  I'm home with my daughter.
Insurance Agent - So, you're a Homemaker.
Me - Well, I also work part-time, and will probably go back to school, but yes, I suppose that's technically what I am.

Why is it that I couldn't just own up to the fact that my primary occupation currently is to manage the home?  Why does the word Homemaker conjure up images like this ?

Housework rules!

....which, I can assure you looks nothing like me as I've forsaken dry-clean-only fabrics and most forms of make-up in favor of cotton t-shirts and a beauty regime that mainly consists of pulling my hair into a ponytail. 

I believe we need to come up with another title entirely for Homemaker.  I'd prefer to be called Woman with a Thousand Roles or House Goddess.  And if you could see my kitchen floor - which I swear I just swept yesterday - you would NOT want to eat off it, thus, my title of Maker of the Home doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  Or perhaps that just makes me a Bad Homemaker?

P.S. I don't iron.