This is
something a colleague once uttered, years ago.  It’s such a PRONOUNCEMENT.

 And at
the time, I felt ambivalent about it. 
I mean, for one thing, he’s a man, and me being a woman, I felt it was
kind of, well, easy for HIM to say. 
He had a wife to do the housework so he could do the “art”.  I had no such arrangement at the time.

And I wanted to believe in a world where a woman could do as she pleased: have a lovely home AND be an artist (or a career woman) at the same time.  I didn’t want to believe it was a case or either/or.

 But I
have come to realize how true the statement is, especially now that I’m a
mom.  There is LITERALLY no end to
housework when you have kids. 
Sometimes it takes the form of homework, or tying shoes, or attending
PTA meetings – but it’s all basically Housework.  It’s Daily Life. 
And it absolutely kills art and creative expression.  No question.

 They
cannot both exist simultaneously. 
You have to make a choice. 

So this
weekend I made the choice: I did not blog.  But I do have a really clean house!

An original post by Sarah Auerswald.