Homemaking = Nurturing

I love some of these quotes I came across regarding homemaking and its vital role in the family as well as in society.

"Another word for nurturing is homemaking.  Homemaking includes cooking, washing clothes and dishes, and keep an orderly home.  Home is where women have the most power and influence. . . Working beside children in homemaking tasks creates opportunities to teach and model qualities children should emulate.  Nurturing mothers are knowledgeable, but all the education women attain will avail them nothing if they do not have the skill to make a home that creates a climate for spiritual growth. . . Nuturing requires organization, patience, love, and work."  Julie B Beck (15th General Relief Society President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

"There is an art to being a homemaker.  For ourselves and our families, it is important that we have a sanctuary - a place of refuge away from the world where we feel comfortable and where, if others come, they, too, can feel comfortable."  Barbara W. Winder (11th General Relief Society President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)


"Hold your heads high, you wives, mothers, homemakers.  You engender life and enrich it.  Don't trade that pervasive force for fleeting, surface trinkets.  Cherish it, enlarge it, magnify it." Barbara B. Smith (10th General Relief Society President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

There is nothing more than being a homemaker for my family, and providing that environment for my family as well as teaching them how to provide that in their own future homes is not only vital, but the most important privilege and blessing in my life.

For more info:
http://www.lds.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom/manual/guardians-of-the-hearth-establishing-nurturing-and-defending-the-family?lang=eng&query=homemaker

http://mormon.org/family