Homemaking quotes

[LadybugSam]

i'm looking to put it into my homemaking journal. does anybody have any encouraging or funny quotes to share?

I found a couple i like but am having a hard time finding more.

"What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home.
“Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

—Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family.
-Flylady

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

[TrinMama]

[greendelight]

"Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." -Robert Louis Stevenson

[Victorious]

[brandi]

"Thank you, God, for these dirty dishes, for it means that my family has eaten today."

[DaltonsMomma]

My mom had this posted above our sink the whole time I was growing up. I have no idea who wrote it:

"Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell. While others may go hungry, we're eating very well. For by the stack of evidence, I shouldn't want to fuss. With home and health and happiness....God's been good to us."

[SortaCrunchy]

[LadybugSam]

found a few more:

Thank you God, for all I have to do today.
Thanks God, for this sink of dirty dishes,
It shows we have plenty to eat.

Thanks God, for this pile of dirty, stinky, laundry,
It shows we have plenty of clothes to wear.

Thanks God, for those unmade beds in there,
They were warm and so comfortable last night
And I know there are many who have no beds.

Thank God, for this bathroom complete with all the
Spattered mirror, soggy grimy towels and dirty commode,
They are so convenient.

Thanks God, for this finger-smudged refrigerator
That needs defrosting,
It is full of cold drinks and enough leftovers
For two or three meals.

Thanks God, for this oven
That absolutely must cleaned today,
It has baked so many things over the years.

The whole family is grateful for that grass that needs mowing,
The lawn that will need raking, we all enjoy the yard.

Thanks God, even for that slamming screen door,
My kids are healthy and able to run and play.

Lord the presence of all these chores awaiting me
Says you have richly blessed my family.
I shall do them all cheerfully
And I shall do them gratefully.

Amen

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
~Agatha Christie

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
~Robert Brault

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ~G.M. Weilacher

Please don’t feed the dust bunnies.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966

and i know that HeatherMichaela has a quote in her siggy that i like, if only i can find her somewhere

[Codi]

Ohhhhh.........

[veggiegirl]

Originally Posted by DaltonsMomma

My mom had this posted above our sink the whole time I was growing up. I have no idea who wrote it:

"Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell. While others may go hungry, we're eating very well. For by the stack of evidence, I shouldn't want to fuss. With home and health and happiness....God's been good to us."

I have that quote up too!

[graciousmomma]

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[Heather Micaela]

and i know that HeatherMichaela has a quote in her siggy that i like, if only i can find her somewhere

Currently - or in the past?

I used to have part of this:

What Did I Do Today?

Today I left some dishes dirty
The bed got made around 3:30
The diapers soaked a little longer,
The odor grew a little stronger.
The crumbs I spilled the day before
Are staring at me from the floor.
The fingerprints there on the wall
will likely be there still next fall.
The dirty streaks on those windowpanes
will still be there next time it rains.
Shame on you, you sit and say,
Just what did you do today?
I held a baby till he slept,
I held a toddler while he wept.
I played a game of hide and seek,
I squeezed a toy so it would squeak.
I pulled a wagon, sang a song,
Taught a child right from wrong.
What did I do this whole day through?
Not much that shows, I guess that's true.
Unless you think that what I've done
Might be important to someone
with dark brown eyes and soft brown hair.
If that is true... I've done my share.
-----Author Unknown

It sounds counter to housekeeping, but it was a reminder to me to do my best and not stress if it does not all get done.