Can you feel the glow? I'll be surprised if you can't....I am red hot cross!!!
I was chatting to the couple behind me whilst I was waiting in the queue this evening at the supermarket, just making ideal chat whilst waiting. You know me I would talk to wall if I thought it would answer, lol! They were a very nice couple I must add....that is until the husband open his mouth and put his foot in it!! Yes, I know it's a talent that men often have...mine included on occasions.
I was asking the lady what she did and she said she hadn't worked outside the home for several years..but before I could reply her husband added "Yes, she's only a housewife". ONLY..I ask you!!
I smiled my sweetest smile and replied to the lady "So your a banker, child care expert, domestic specialist, nurse and a councillor."
But he still persisted!!!! "No, she doesn't work, she not really trained for anything." Aaaaaaaaaahh!!!! There goes a blood vessel!!!
Take a deep, deep breath, slowly breath, breath, I told myself. In, out, in, out. But the smile did not leave my face...honestly it just sat there like it was painted on, a sort of frozen smile.
"Oh but she does work" I told him. "She has to have loads of skills to be a successful housewife..... it's a skilled job you know."
Well, he looked at me as if I had just dropped into the conversation that I was an alien......I could see the question in his eyes "Is she having a laugh?" He really didn't know what I was talking about!!
At that point the queue moved again...wonders will never cease and it was my turn. I hurried my shopping into bags and paid the cashier. As I turned to go the lady moved to start packing her bags and gave me a little smile.
"Have a great evening" I laughed "You've only got the shopping to unpack, the tea to make and the washing up to organise and then it's feet up ...for a while"
She grinned and said "Thank you, I'll remember what you said..and I'll make sure he does too!"
I hate it when I hear people say that housewives have no skills or that they don't work..it is nonsense. Think how many people you would have to employ to get all the things done that stay at home women do!!! Cleaner, nurse, banker, personal assistant, teacher, laundress, seamstress, personal shopper, nanny, decorator....will I go on?
So if your a housewife (stay at home mum) then hold your head high!!!! You have buckets full of skills that could be used not only in the home but in loads of work places, your a professional!!!
OK, I'll climb off my soap box now and calm down. I know I've mentioned this point before...but it is a pet hate of mine!!!!
Life is busy now for us all and Christmas shopping for gifts or making gifts is high on all our agendas..with this in mind I have made you some tags that you can use in your scrapbooking or you can print out and layer up for some gorgeous gift tags for Christmas.
There are two downloads one is the scrapbooking tags all ready to drop into your layouts in Png format, plus for Digi designers there is a template Psd file that can be used to design your own tags. The Psd template only can be used for commercial use to design your own tags.
The second download is in Pdf format all ready to print on card and cutout to assemble your own tags.
I hope that you can find a use for them in one or other of their formats.
As 4shared has become impossible to leave comments on without being logged in..and even then not always...I have made these direct downloads. So if you want to leave comment then please post it here on the blog.
Download Tags and Png and Psd files here
Download the Pdf Printable Sheet here
Well, have fun!! And I hope you all take care...be lucky, don't meet someone like me in the supermarket queue!!! Lol!
41 comments:
Thank you for sticking up for us homemakers/housewives/SAHM. It is nice when someone recognizes that we actually do make a difference.
The tags are just perfect. TY :)
I tell my hubby this ALL THE TIME! He complains about how he has to "go to work." I tell him I NEVER get to leave it! Thanks for the tags sweetie :))
For a change I didn't come for the freebie LOL-- rather to thank you for the blog post! I've been "just" a housewife coming up to 30 years --- have done it all, including currently running a fully operational ICU in my living room! (Have a medically involved little boy) -- practicing medicine without a license -- but yes --- just a housewife and proud of it I am!
Oh yes, I agree with latte ' dah....you are made to feel inferior because you are a stay at home wife and usually people just walk away cos they think you are boring with nothing to talk about.
Well, I can tell them all about the state of the nation, how to get their phone, electricity, gas water problems fixed, where they need to go for advice for various problems, what to plant and when.....LOL
Why .....because I am a stay at home wife and I LOVE my radio and from that I learn a little about all things....more than just the idle gossip of an office.
BTW thanks for the tags and thanks for recognising the homemakers.
Thank you so much for the wonderful Christmas tags and for telling that geezard like it is!!!!! lol People like him make me red hot also! I think I've only known one man in my whole life that ever acknowleded what a woman does and respected all of them and that was one of my uncles. May he rest in peace! He always said "A Woman's job is never done!" Amen to that.
you go girl...some men, uhg! My DH learned long ago, LOL. Thanx for the great Smas tags that can be used in so many ways!!!
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Thanks so much for the tags. They are swell! And a BIG WELL DONE done for sticking up for housewives - everyone has a part to play.
You go June! Thank you for sticking up for all the homemakers, SAHM and in some cases SAHD. It is a never ending job with no paid vacations but the rewards are great! If the husband that thinks his wife is just a housewife, had to hire someone to do these jobs for a week - Child care worker, cook, dishwasher, laundry worker, chauffeur, maid, recreation coordinator, tutor, bookkeeper/secretary, nurse just to name a few - he would see how much just a housewife would earn if she where getting paid for her many jobs! The tags are great June, thanks for sharing them :)
Thanks for the tags - and the laugh! I'm fortunate to be married to a man who does appreciate all I do for him & the kids. But if you think it's hard for people to get women staying at home with kids you should try explaining why you (and your husband) have decided that life would be more enjoyable & balanced if you don't 'work' outside the home BEFORE you have them!! How times change!
Well June, you GO GIRL!! LOL, men don't have a clue and I'm glad you tried to make that clear to that man. Thick in the head I say, LOL. Anyway, I'm a SAHM now after working for 20+ years outside the home. Let me tell you, it is a lot of work and my husband, bless him, says I probably work the hardest in the family. Ha, if you only knew. Anyway, thanks for today's awesome tags. I LOVE them so funky whimsy style and cute too, hehe!! Hugs -- xoxo!!
PS: to all us "just" housewives reunite and stand proud!!
You know what they say, put your feet up for a week and they will see just exactly what it is housewives do!
Ooooo, I am going to print these out this week and put them on my gifts that I am taking to my family on vacation this week! Thanks!! :-)
Men just don't get it do they?! lol I swear they don't see all the little things we do. Pain in the butts I tell you! lol
Way to go June! Yes, I believe the "housewives" have to be the most underappreciated employees there are. From the wash to the cleaning, playing "taxi" for all the kids activities (not to mention getting them to school to begin with), doing the grocery shopping and paying the bills, playing doctor at all hours amungst the hundreds of other little things that some cant even fathom..our jobs are never done. And to think we actually get the best paycheck of all if we are caring for children in that mix, its not the money thats important but its the little one that hugs you over the littlest of gestures that pays tenfold over and over. I wouldn't trade my "housewife" career for the world! I mean I get the satisfaction of seeing things done the right way, my children safely cared for without worry and knowing that I also have time to do something (designing) that I love to do to boot. So to all my fellow housewives, when the end of the day comes and you just feel that you have nothing left to give, remember that of all the careers that you could have had, you have the grandest honor of them all :) Thanks June for the lovely reminder that we all are important even if our job never leaves the confinds of 4 walls and a house full of children! (and for the cute freebie)..Hugs from the housewives club :)..xoxo K
Well done you!!! -- and thank you for the great tags!
thank yoyu so much.
I have been a SAHM for going on 18 years, working here and there when we needed extra money. I have a friend that has been both a SAHM and a working mom over these last few years. Frankly, I do not see how a working mom does it!! Because being a SAHM is the hardest thing I have ever done. It is the one job that has brought me the greatest fulfillment. And it is the one job that has brought me to my knees in tears! Thank you so much for standing up for all of us SAHM!!!
Cen, I love the Christmas tags. I'm a bit of a tag collector. I love to use them in my LO's. These are so pretty too.
Also wanted to say I really got a kick out of reading your blog today. You see, I'm a disabled housewife. I still do quite a bit around the house though...you know, women's work *ROTFLMBO* :) Well, at least according to hubby. I have finally convinced him it would hurt him none at all to put a dish into the dishwasher. Men...that says it all. But after reading your blog I feel a bit more empowered.
Thank you so much for the tags, and leaving you some love. {{{hugs}}} Ajila
Thank you for sharing! Any I really enjoyed your story... because, yes... most people think that if we stay home we don't do anything but play all day... and sometimes that is true, but not always... Have a great week.
I agree with you 1000% thank you for the cute tags!
haha, great blog! i am not married myself but i do get frustrated when i hear people talk about housewives and stay at home moms like that. if it wasnt work then more people would be sitting at home doing it instead of sending their kids to daycare haha. not that there is anything wrong with people out working in the real world, im just saying.
Oh June I wish I had been there! My friend answered the door to a man delivering their weekly shopping order, he commented that she must have time on her hands now she doesn't have to go shopping, he then enquired after the twins she had recently given birth to!!! Men
It was the same award(for creativity).Why don't you create the "total idiot award",because it would be very useful for quite a lot of women.....
Thank you so much to have thought to the frog legs eaters(I hate those things!!Why eat frog legs when you can have snails ?:))
If you want to learn some words in french ,just ask.
Bises.
By the way love your tags :))Thank you :))
Great blog post!!! I call myself a "Home Maker" - since I am making our house a HOME!!!
Well June,
A HUGE hug to YOU for telling the idiot he was an idiot! (if he figured it out) Men like that make the rest look really bad. I have had my moments
tormenting those types when I could ;)
Hooray for YOU!! You're my hero
Judging by the responses, I'd say you hit a nerve with many folks. When I was having my babies, it was my choice to stay at home for them. At the same time, however, was when women's rights and equal opportunity language came into being. Women were running out the door to jobs that would just pay the day care fees.
I recall people asking me what I did and I would tell them I was a homemaker. They would look at me with such pity!
It is sad to say, but, this attitude does still exist. It is up to you and I and the others to set about changing it, eh? I'm glad you spoke out.
Su
My husband thought the same way hers did until he became the stay at home dad and I went to work. That's what it takes for men to realize that it is much easier to have the job outside the home than to be the stay at home dad. Thanks for the Christmas tags.
SAHM...that is a new one to me. I was lucky enough to be a SAHM for 6 months last year and it was the most rewarding time of my life. I don't think I worked any less...if anything, I probably worked harder; my house was so clean and dinner was ready when the hubby got home and I spent the whole summer exploring with my incredible child. I am very grateful for that time and the blessings I received. Even though I love my paying job, I so wish I didn't have to work outside of the home; but, alas, we do what we think is best for our families. The laundry may not be done and we often realize that it has been two weeks since the vacuum has been out of the closet...but I do my best to be there for the homework and the field trips and the hauling back and forth. Every so often I do miss something important; and that is when I just want to sit down and cry. Thankfully, I am lucky enough to have a husband who seriously ROCKS. I also work in a company where family comes first and business comes second; which is only part of why I love my paying job...I think the paychecks help too. I don't know how those single moms, who also work outside the home, do it. Or even those people, both moms and dads, who have jobs where they can't get away for the check ups or the dance recital or the basketball games. I believe the moms who try their best, and who kiss and hug their children, and who tuck them in, and those who say, "I love you" and, most importantly, those who realize that family is a blessing and should be the top priority...well, those are the very best moms\wives, no matter where they happen to be from 9 to 5.
Thank you for sharing the great tags.
Three cheers for June, hip, hip, hurray! If you could see the size of my house you would through up your hands in horror. I also do all the decorating and most of the gardening. I put up fence panels after painted all 14 of the darned things first and dug the holes for the posts. Plus I service the cars and plan Christmas and birthdays from start to finish all on my own. I know you love your hubby, but I don't think it would be a good idea if he found me behind him in a supermarket queue as I'm fantastic at stuffing the turkey.
Men are truly from Mars Grrrrrrr!
:)
Whoops, I got carried away and forgot to say thank you for the cute tags.
THANK YOU
Thank you for your appreciation of women who do it all. And thank you for the tags. I hope you don't mind, but I have linked your blog in a post on mine. I wanted more people to enjoy your story.
Kudos to you!
She needs to present him a bill for all the services she performs - then he'll think ONLY a housewife! (He couldn't afford her!!!) Thanks for the tags.
believe me there more than a few are SAHMs who think they are worthless...
What a chauvinist husband! I'm glad you did some educational work on him while he was stuck in the checkout line. I do have one bone to pick with what you said, however, related to one of my pet peeves :) A housewife is NOT a professional, in the strict sense of the term. I'm not picking on housewives - after, my mother is one. In fact, most people who work outside the home are not professionals. A professional is someone who practices a profession. Definition of profession:
"An occupation that properly involves a liberal, scientific, or artistic education or its equivalent, and usually mental rather than manual labour; especially one of the three learned profssions, law, medicine or theology."
I enjoy your blog, especially the stories about Lily. Best wishes.
So pleased you said what you did - too many people don't think that being a "domestic goddess" is a job. I have found that after working for close to 30 years & then having to resign due to health reasons I found it difficult to say that my occupation is now Home Duties as a lot of people say - yes but what else do you do - Grrrrr. Thanks you always manage to make me smile & feel good.
on you for putting this moron in his place.
Hugs
kath
xxxx
I agree, I still remember my first interview after my kids had grown and the mans reply when I told him I have been a mother/housewife for the past 25 years was "oh, so you never worked" I calmly stood up and thanked him for his time and asked if I could have his mothers address so I coluld let her know she never worked while raising him.
To anonymous who defines a professonal as law, medicine or theology needs to look again. In western nations, such as the United States, the term commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, economic security, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work. Our education is selt taught rather then from a collage and our salary is in the forms of hugs, kisses and smiles instead of a normel paycheck but housewifes do it all from general laber to skilled. now I will get off my soapbox. and thank for the tags.
alma
Many thanks!
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Hi there,
This is a great blog of yours, Your site is very informative and I can relate to your posts. I'm also a housewife. I have just started my own blog: TheShanghaiExpat. Please feel free to visit and let me know what you think for a link exchange.
Cheers,
Nikou
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