Wow, it's been a while since I've last posted!
But I'm still here!
I'm 17 now!

While I usually don't like sharing my private life on the internet, I think you all should know where I'm coming from.

My dad is an atheist. My mom is a traditional christian.
They both work 7 days a week.

The extent of my culinary skills is anything that involves a can opener and a microwave.

I've never touched a bottle of laundry soap in my life, let alone washed anything with it. I don't even know how to operate a washing machine.

As a young child, I was never expected to clean up after myself. When my mother would even attempt to talk to me about cleaning a mess, my father would walk in with "Don't you DARE talk to MY only daughter like that! You don't actually expect her to CLEAN or do WORK, do you?!?!?!"
He would then wisk me off to watch a cowboy movie with him while he ordered my mother to clean any messes I may have made.
Well, that continued on until fairly recently. Nowadays, my dad actually lets my mother talk to me about it. The cleaning of my room still falls in her hands.
I have made progress of this, though. This past year, at 16 years old, I started to put away my own dishes after I ate a meal (though I still have no clue how to wash a dish). I also started to dust my room.

As a follow of the Creator of the Universe, a (hopefully) future wife and mother, future homemaker, and possible future homesteader, that is the extent of my homemaking skills.

As I've said before, my parents work 7 days a week, and my mother really doesn't have time to teach me these things. Or she says things like "hire a maid".
It has even become somewhat of an inside joke in our immediate family with me and cleaning. Such as "the day Maria cleans a dish is the day I win the lottery", and bursts of laughter than ensue.

I WANT to clean. and cook. Unlike most kids my age.
But, I have no one to teach me.

The few times I have mentioned being a homesteader, my mother brushes it off. She hates the idea.
When I talk about how I want to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, she, once again, bursts out laughing, saying that it's just not realistic nowadays and I shouldn't kid myself.

I know she means well, but I believe that my calling from God is to be, first and foremost, a wife and mother. Not a single career woman.

I'm not really sure what the main point of this post was, as I look back it seems I was just rambling, but I guess you can tell at least a bit of what I'm dealing with.

I have no clue how to cook. Clean. Organize.
But I know I have to learn.
So, by joining here, I have taken matters into my own hands, and I will try to teach myself.
I think I'm especially determined (and sort of scared) to do this since I recently turned 17 and it suddenly dawned on me that adulthood is quickly approaching.

I know it will be hard, I know people, friends, and family members will continue to scoff at me, but I have to do this.
I know that's what the Creator wants and I know that one day my future husband will be one person who actually appreciates that hard work I will be putting forth.