Welcome to Lifeconomix!
What exactly is Lifeconomix? Well back in the day, we had Home Ec to teach us the finer points of being self sufficient human being. Now, I think its become more like an artform.
Its amazing how much people fit into their lives every single day. Think about it – we used to eat three square meals a day prepared with ease, come home from school or work and have a lovely evening relaxing and go to bed at 10. At least that was my perception as a child. As a Mom, I know better. Its exhausting.
Now, we workout each morning before making a wholesome breakfast for our children, hustle them to school and then we are off to work. We answer a billion phone calls, answer oodles of texts and emails and wrap up our day later than expected. We then rush home to hopefully have food to feed the children before racing them off to their activities at night. Sound familiar?
Lifeconomix is exactly what is sounds like. Life as defined by Websters Dictionary is simply put as the period between life and death. Economics as it relates to the home, defined by Websters Dictionary is the theory and practice of homemaking.
Homemaking. That word to me invokes a picture in my head of a woman, in an apron happily ironing a freshly cleaned and starched dress shirt, or that same woman hanging clothes up to dry on a line outside. I don’t think that happens anymore. I think there has always been an illusion that this is what life is supposed to look like if we do it correctly. Well….. my life doesn’t look like this, not even close. But, I do want to have a place I go to that creates a feeling of being home, and that does require some homemaking as much as I despise the word.
Today, we have so much, and yet so little. We have full social lives, busy children, work, and numerous other activities and unpleasant time suckers that take us away from home. That my friend is what we call life. It is your life. When I say we have so little, its not possessions or things that we are lacking – its the connections we are lacking. The ability to turn off the happenings and focus on whats really important. We need to learn to spend time with people, not phones. Throw the ball with our kids, or have that tea party. These times only come around for so long.
Feel good about you. We all muddle through our life and do the best we can. We have resources to help us along the way and I am hoping to share with you some of the tools, tricks and mistakes I have made along the way. Hey, if someone finds it useful then it has all been worth it.
Here’s to a Full Life and a Happy Home.
Jayne