Homekeeping is about practical matters that make life better at home. Whether it’s home maintenance, products that help you keep up with tasks around the house, or skills that make your home more comfortable…these are all topics that will be explored in this blog.
Kimbesa’s Homekeeping grew out of our other blogs, Diary of a Dishie, and Kimbesa’s Homemade Pizza. It seems that Home Ec class like I had in the 1970s is no longer a fixture of the public schools, yet those skills are needed more and more in our 21st century society.
Homekeeping is also about self-reliance. There is a story about my mother, and the house we lived in, early in the 1960s. My father built it himself, but when it came to the finishing touches, well, that wasn’t as interesting as the plumbing. Finishing included the screens for the windows.
You can imagine, a warm Midwestern summer, mom and three small children at home. A house on the edge of town, not far from farm fields, bugs and all. You need to open the windows and put up the screens, to let cool air in and keep bugs out!
Now my father did keep a workshop with tools and supplies. Everything was there — wood for frames, nails, and screen. My mother sewed and made most of our clothes. How hard could it be to measure some wood, cut and assemble, and fasten on the screen cloth?
Voila…screens!
That’s self-reliance. When you use what you have to solve problems and make your life better. Take those tools into your own hands, and see what you can do.
Whether the need is for beauty or functionality, that’s homekeeping.
