Ok, let's try this again.
The author of my current Bible Study, The Five Aspects of Woman (www.fiveaspects.net) makes a distinction between housekeeping, homemaking and housebuilding.
The first, housekeeping, is the cleaning, fixing and polishing of everyday life. I have known women who excel in this. I have a friend who regularly vacuums her ceiling. There is a board on my Pinterest just for this, in hope of some miraculous way it will all be accomplished without having to lift a finger. Alas, it still hasn't happened.
Homemaking is by far my favorite. This is creating a pleasing environment in which to live. ( I used "pleasing"; too many Jane Austen movies lately.) This is the decorating, cooking, the gardening, arranging of flowers, music, candles.
The last is housebuilding. Housebuilding is the most important of the three. It is the mark you leave on society. Encompassed in this is your relationships with neighbors, family, friends and strangers. It's the atmosphere of your home. Have you been to a perfectly decorated, spotless home for a gourmet dinner and felt completely uncomfortable? And have you sat at a kitchen table with a chipped cup of coffee and store bought cookies and felt soothed and refreshed?
Where will your home fall in this spectrum? Is your goal to wow and amaze people, or to encourage and delight?
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