I grew up in the 40s/50s with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a Name for it.  A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.

Do you feel that you are caught in a rut?  Sometimes we housewives feel like everyday is the same.  You spend so much energy doing everyday duties that pile up and need to be done the next day and the next.  A person can really lose themselves in just living everyday life. 

From my experience, it would seem that faithful mothers have a special gift that we often refer to as mother's intuition. Perhaps with the great blessing of motherhood, our Heavenly Father has endowed them with this quality, since fathers, busy in priesthood callings and with the work of earning a livelihood,

I remember the day clearly. I was only nineteen, and I was shopping at the grocery store  with a dear friend. My friend was much older and wiser than I, and well past the age of  retirement.  At this particular life moment, she meant everything to me. Her role was that of mentor and adviser.

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

A woman called homemaker is largely responsible for all the spiritual, physical and mental ills of the American family.  She is the one who administers the medicine, gives emergency first aid and handles the food.  In her hands are placed the lives of her husband and children.