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All that we do as wives and mothers shapes others. How we do what we do also shapes others. Such is the responsibility invocation of a homemaker. Homemaking, as Edith Schaefer reminds us is an art. It's not merely a set of tasks, it's a vocation.

It's a discipline, but a creative one. If homemaking is making a home particularly as a pleasant place in which to live,

as the dictionary says, then our first duty as homemakers is not to find the perfect schedule for chores, but to be pleasant ourselves.

What will make home more pleasant than having a cheerfully bustling wife and mother at its

core?

Of course the floor should be scrubbed, the sheets washed, and the meals prepared.

These are the works keeping our hands busy, but what makes us homemakers is our orientation and demeanor, not our tasks alone.

Excerpt from Simplified Organization by Misty Winkler.

Well, welcome back everybody to another episode of Brightheart. Hope that you are all doing well. How are you doing tonight, babe?

Good. You look cheerful over there. Do I?

Yeah, now that we've rearranged our house and we're in this, we moved rooms in our house and now I've got this like thrown in the corner of the room that I can just record and behold Lexi from afar. You know people who leave us reviews on Apple Podcast, which by the way you

should, if you haven't already left us a five-star review, they really love how much I flirt with

Lexi on the show. They totally don't leave us one-star

reviews saying we didn't need another podcast listening to somebody flirt with

his wife, but you know what? I think the world needs it.

I don't know.

Apparently it bothers some people.

I'm sick, sorry if you hear me coughing through the show and Ray is good but he's not a magician

so he can't get all the coughs out in the editing process.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed that quote from our friend Misty Winkler and her book there in the

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