Why I'm here.

For the past year and half or so, I've been fascinated by what I've come to think of as "The Mormon Housewife Blogosphere." (This is to say nothing derogatory of Mormons, it is only that my path to discovering housewife blogs began with a Mormon family and therefore the linked blogs I read are always also of the LDS religious persuasion.)

Distracting myself from work, I hop onto the blog of a former coworker's sister, get updates on her family and kids, learn about the renewal of her faith brought in the form of a digital scrap booking class she taught at her church, her children's new vocabulary, and her husband's new schedule in medical school. No, I've never met this family. I never even really got along with the former coworker. But this one mommy blog has change my life. OK, not really, but I have put a significant amount of time into reading and analyzing it.

About a month after reading this first Mormon housewife blog, I discovered a list of links on the sidebar titled "Our Friends." This opened a whole new world of vicarious domestic bliss.

Yes, I think I read these blogs because I am jealous and wish Len or I could be a stay at home mom. Yes, I do think derisive thoughts about these families and their willingness to post things like "Potty training mishaps! :) !!!" and "Why I Love My Women's Group." But, I also really respect something about these women. I think it has to do with their love and devotion to their families, their husbands, and god. I think that atypical families have the same devotions, but our blogs are all about cloth diapering and upcycle crafting. The Mormon housewives have discovered a way to make the blogosphere their bitch. Each cheery, cuss-less, exclamation-pointed entry shouts "I am the matriarch. I know this family. I protect this family," from women who appear to live without feminism.

Lately a few entries have popped up in the Mormon Housewife Blogosphere about "neo-feminism," "christian-feminism," and "house-wife feminism." I think these women know what power they have and they are using it how they choose to.

In honor of them, I start my own version of a Mormon Housewife Blog.