~Confucius
So every road has a beginning and every journey starts with a single step down the path you've chosen. The same goes for my quest to becoming a good wife. My first step was my choice to learn how to keep the home clean. So far I have kept the kitchen clean every night last week into this week (we aren't counting the weekend though since that had some crazy wedding stuff for a friend).
While thinking about my first steps on my path I thought about (yes I am a nerd) starting on an epic quest in a fantasy world. Our favorite hero's just wouldn't be themselves with out their armor and capes and swords. Just as I don't feel like a wife when I am not wearing my favorite apron, right now I have two and one of them has become my favorite although it doesn't fit quite the way I'd like it to. Once I have a sewing machine I will be making a new apron that is just right :)
Of course every good hero knows their weapons and equipment well; same with me. Armed with tongs and spatulas I fight my way through the culinary wastelands. Some encounters are met well and I whip up something amazing. Some end...not so well. Like the klosse I tried to make a few days ago, messed up the last step by covering the pot...they boiled apart and I had potato water with tiny chunks of what was four beautiful klosse floating in the murky water. I cried on the bed and gave up on dinner when my hubby suggested we used what was left of my rice from lunch to have with the pork I'd prepared to go along the klosse and gravy.
Teamwork is what this marriage is built on, and endless amounts of patience on my husbands end.
So together we take our first steps, and many many more steps as the years progress.
