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🗓️ 17 April 2024
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Ep 173 - Are women bound to a life of misery if they take on this role in the home. Cooking. Cleaning. Caretaking. Sleeping. Wake up. Repeat. Is this brainless work? The home can be either a prison or a gospel flourishing environment. When you create a space for people to build relationships, nourish their bodies, learn, grow and build one another up, it's a life-giving gift.
Allow us to change your perspective in this conversation on the cooking, cleaning and the kitchen.
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0:00.0 | When I got married I knew that I wanted to be the one who was doing the majority of cooking in my family. |
0:05.3 | I just saw so much value in like taking care of my home and I don't know like being a homemaker and all of that |
0:12.4 | but I did not pride myself on like being the best at that or having the best skills but honestly something that made it very easy and this is huge |
0:20.3 | out to my husband Dave because he's been extremely gracious in this area |
0:23.7 | but he came from a family where the cooking was pretty simple and then he was a |
0:28.2 | bachelor for several years I'm gonna get a bachelor like living on his own for several years. |
0:34.0 | and his meals sometimes were just like a big pile of like sauteed ground beef |
0:40.1 | and that was like great for him. |
0:41.3 | No veggies. |
0:42.3 | No veggies. No veggies. |
0:43.3 | Like as bachelors do, you know, some of them just eat very, very simply. |
0:47.7 | So me having these ambitions to want to take care of him, but then him having very low expectations actually made for a really |
0:55.7 | great situation for us because basically anything I make for Dave, he's like compliments all over the place. He's like this is so great because |
1:05.5 | genuinely it is a huge step up from especially his bachelor days but just like as his family |
1:11.8 | they ate very very simply so it like it's been a good experience but I will say that |
1:17.4 | it in my own like heart and in my own self it's something I want to do for my family now I have two kids as well I |
1:24.1 | want to cook for them but it doesn't come super naturally to me and I will say like |
1:30.3 | if I'm just being totally honest. I really don't love it. |
1:33.9 | I'm not like, what am I going to make today? |
1:35.8 | Am I going to make sourdope bread? |
1:36.8 | Like I am not a, like that at all. |
1:39.4 | So it has been a challenge in something that I've had to remember like why do I do this so that was |
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