What is home?

Home is 'where the heart is,' right? Well, where is your heart? Or better yet, what is in your heart? If what's in your heart can surround you, then that is home :). For me, as a mother who is mostly home and also as a wife, I aim to nest our home - this is so satisfactory to me. I remember being young and rearranging my mom & dad's house, lighting candles for ambiance, playing music to set the mood, & probably even bossing people around.

Knowing that children need to learn to trust, explore & gain confidence in themselves, & be loved, I have started centering my nesting around these very things. (big deep sigh) I am still training myself in this way. My past post on living by diamonds talked about defining housework (cleaning & such monotony) versus homework (making home a warm, loving, fun, & spiritual place). How can I keep cleaning something or doing office work all day when other lives need someone to follow to learn everything? Well, with one child - maybe even with 2 - you can probably balance these two things (housework & homework). With 2 & definitely 3 children, you cannot do this!!! Thank God, literally. He is forcing this strong-willed child (me, ha!) to just...let...go....and....live - to be less meticulous about everything and instead be free to get messy and to 'go with the flow.' simultaneously, I am learning discipline & structure. I think these latter two are more beneficial than a super neat & clean life ;-).

So, back to what is in your heart :-) whatever it is......cooking, cycling, opening your home to friends, working, teaching, thrifting, organizing....may you be free to fill your home and even your life with these. Your heart and your little lives will flourish.