Hey ladies! I can't even say how overwhelmed I am with the interest in this group. It's an idea I've been throwing around for awhile. At first, I considered joining an existing Homemaker's Club in my area. Both of my grandmothers are members of the same Homemaker's Club in Rineyville. After speaking to one of them about it, I really decided that their group wasn't for me. They meet during the day, they talk about things like avoiding dementia and how to make your retirement account last. Not that I don't want to learn about those things too, but I'm in a season of my life that I feel like I need to know about HOW to be a homemaker. These ladies have it down to an art. Both my grandmothers, for example, were stay at home moms of SIX children, made 3 meals a day from scratch, kept their houses in order AND managed to keep their sanity.
Here I am, in 2014. I have one child and I work outside the home. It's a blessed miracle if I can manage to make three meals a week for my family and I'm so far buried in laundry that I don't even know where to begin. I need a homemakers group full of ladies like that. Ladies that know what the struggle is like to keep up in this Pinterest-obsessed society full of crafty moms that blog and seem to keep their houses and their children looking perfect. Because friends, that isn't me. I want to learn about how to make a dollar stretch, how to coupon, how to sew (because I don't have the foggiest clue on how to hem a pant), how to make a meal plan and stick to it. Once upon a time, girls learned to do all of these things at the lap of their mothers. Homemaking, until very recently, had fallen by the wayside. But I'm here to say that I want to bring it back. I may be a mom who doesn't have all her crap together, but I still want to know the basics of being a good homemaker. If that sounds like you, we'd love to have you as a part of our club. On the flipside, we want to have a variety of members. If you're a single girl that owns her own home and wants to know how to manage a budget and learn how to coupon, we'd love to have you. If you're a newlywed that is learning how to live in a house with a man and wants to know how to make your own cleaning supplies, we'd love to have you. If you're a dad that wants to help his wife out by learning how to take over the weekly cooking (trust me, your wife would love that), we'd love to have you!
Because of the season of life I think that most of our members will be in, I think our club will be called "Homemakers in Progress." Here's how our group will work (I think. :)).
Since we're forming a group so late in the year, we are going to hold off paying dues until September, when the new year begins. We'll pay dues and send in our applications to be official members of the Hardin County Homemakers. Until then though, I would still like to meet. I would really like to have a meeting in June, July and August, if we can manage it (or two out of the three). We'll need to do some housekeeping in these meetings. We'll need to decide what kind of stuff we want to see from this Homemakers Club. We'll need to elect officers, set our dues amount, get a feel for what you all are interested in seeing out of this club and our meetings.
Our first meeting will be JUNE 11th at 6pm at the Hardin County Extension Office on Peterson Drive (behind Cecilia Auto Sales off Hwy 62). Please bring a food item that you cooked in the crockpot...and bring the recipe printed on pieces of paper for participants to take when they leave. One of our goals of this club will be to provide more information to each other. If you know of a fantastic recipe that you can whip up in the slow cooker, this will be the perfect meeting to share that recipe. It can be whatever you want: soup, dip, appetizers, a full entree. Just your most "famous" crock pot recipe, we want to see.
If you're planning on coming, please email your RSVP to homemakersinprogressetown@gmail.com
We can't wait to get started!!!
{Devan}
