Can I still get into Heaven if I can't make biscuits?

Being in this small cottage

(and i do mean small - 500 sf give or take an inch)

 has made me want to break out the cross-stitch, actually cook from scratch....even putter around in the garden here

they even have a grape vine arch welcoming you in - how could you NOT want to go in there??

It also prompted me to pick up that book

"My so-called life as a Proverbs 31 wife".

Well. 

Knowing that tropical storm Beryl was coming actually made me grab some reading material in case we were stranded without power for a few days, but the cottage, and being on my honeymoon and all, made me pick this book in particular.

I stood in the Walmart 

(side note, why does everyone say "the walmart" and "the Kroger" here - and most of the time in plural? At home it's "i'm going to Walmart' - here it's "I'm going to the Walmarts".  Weird, yet charming all at once.

 staring at this book with all kinds of preconceived notions

(see - another charming thing about being here, you don't "have ideas" - you "get notions" or "half a mind".  As in "I have half a mind to give you a swat right here in line at the Walmarts." said from a very agitated parent to a child who was mid-meltdown in the cashier line when i was buying this book.

I was intrigued - i mean who doesn't want to be a better wife? I certainly do.  

But 

I am not a stay at home mom.

I am not usually the one cooking.

Or buying groceries.

I definitely do NOT mend clothes - i don't even hem my own slacks.

I am a looooooooong way from Proverbs 31.

I wasn't really sure it was relevant to me, or my life.

And it kind of made me sad that I wasn't such a person.

And then mad - this woman doesn't even exist in real life!!

Oh - wait- yes she does - they're all over Maitland - these stay at home, play tennis after dropping the kids at school, look fabulous all the time moms. 

Jealousy hit me like a ton of bricks.

So now i've gone from being sad to mad to jealous all in 15 minutes standing in the Walmarts staring at a book title!!!

I may not need this book as much as i need to start spending some time talkin to Jesus more. Get a grip girl.

I bought the book.

And I read it in a day while the man was fishing his little heart out.

She was me.

She works.

She is not the chef in the house.

And she struggles with all of it just like I do.

I feel a lot more validated that my choice to work isn't a bad choice, or a wrong choice.

It doesn't make me less of a christian wife or mother.

In fact, the Proverbs 31 wife worked too (I honestly didn't know that until I read the book!)

Such a great read from a very entertaining, honest writer.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some biscuits and gravy to make for a very sleepy man.

OK, really i have some cheerios to throw in a bowl and hope the milk isn't spoiled - but let's just go with it.

 

Linking to the girls at The Picket Fence