My dear mama is June Cleaver, Martha Stewart, and Mother Teresa all wrapped up in a perfect five-foot-two-inch package. Bless her for trying to teach me all of her ways. She tried. I even remember her learning how to knit left-handed just so she could better teach me. While it didn’t help, isn’t that awesome?
And she loved me unconditionally when it became apparent that I had not inherited her capacity for homemaking.
It’s true, I waved the white flag on homemaking a long, long, long time ago.
Enter today. When Ultimate Bundles approved kennedyfamfive to be a part of their next book launch, I was like, Wahoo! I have hit the big time! (I’m embarrassed to admit it, but that is honestly what I thought as my head started swelling.)
And then I saw what their next bundle is, and you will laugh when I tell you.
Drum roll, please….
The Ultimate HOMEMAKING Bundle
Seriously? Am I being punk’d or something? I may be the case study for needs-to-be-taught-how-to-make-a-home, but come on!
Couldn’t it at least have been the ultimate funny memes bundle? Or how about the ultimate craftsman homes collection? (I should totally suggest those.) Because that, I could get into…but, homemaking?
Thoughts of canning tomatoes and starching hubby’s white dress shirts all while wearing high heels swirled in my head. And neither one of those is going to happen at my house. Unless my mama comes to visit.
So after I pouted and whined to Derek (the man who loves me in spite of my domestic idiocy), I read the product list of the 70 ebooks that are included.
And then I, the anti-homemaker, ordered the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle.
Don’t worry: I have no visions of becoming a homemaker. I really have no desire to be a homemaker. Not in the June Cleaver sense at least.
I am not a canner, seamstress, or table-setter. I have zero cake decorating ability, and my laziness takes care of any chance at delicately balanced four-course meals (or delicately balanced anything-I’m a klutz).
It’s simply not my thing. Some things in life you just accept, and this is mine.
So what was on the list that made me spend my money? These books….
- Emergency Meals
Homemakers have emergencies? What?? OK, we have emergencies all the time at our house. This could be useful to me.
Homemakers are broken? Maybe I need to re-think my definition of June Cleaver. I’m broken. I need to read this.
- A Deliberate Mother’s Guide to Holidays, Vacations and Quality Family Time
Now we’re talking. Sometimes I feel like the only time I think about my home is holidays and vacations. And despite all my silliness in writing this post, parenting is truly something you have to be deliberate about. That, I already know. 🙂
Oh, man, I wish I had come up with that title. This woman is my new mentor. Whoever she is. This is good stuff. I want the bundle just to see what this book has to say. For real.
Then I saw that there are three adult coloring books included, and I was like, OK, I’m gettin it. RK will think I’m the mother of all mothers. And non-homemaker types need that kind of affirmation sometimes.
The ones that I skipped over:
- The entire Budgeting Section
Derek handles all the money because of that time I almost sent our house into foreclosure trying to get a lower interest rate on our mortgage. Yeah. I know I’m a math teacher, but I teach Geometry, not Economics. Let’s just all stay in our own little bubble, shall we?
- Canning, Pantry, and Food Preser-blah-blah-blah
Yep. I knew it would be in there. Sorry, I have a strange aversion to canning my own food.
- 80 Green Thickies Recipes
Thickies?? This is a thing? News to me.
So, there you have it. My honest thoughts on the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle 2016.
Oh, and RK loves the coloring books. I am the current reigning bomb dot com. 😀
Update: This bundle is no longer available. 🙁 Two of the books listed are available right now on amazon, though…gotta love Amazon! Click on these links to find out more about them.
Or, you can go here to see what the next bundle is and when it’s coming out.