You Can Take the Girl out of the 50's...

Hey friends...I write today to give a very brief "farewell address." Blogging about 50's homemaking has been something fun for me to do, but as you can tell by the sparse posting of late, it's difficult to be consistent with it. More than anything, it's been tough to find time to add 50's homemaking experiments into my hectic daily routine which includes regular homemaking and keeping up with my son (who is developing an iron will these days!).

So, I'm ending the Move Over, June blog and starting up a new one - one that will be mostly just fun for me, but I hope to give an accurate picture of my life - one I am realizing more than ever is blessed beyond my wildest dreams. I get to be a stay at home mom (during the week at least), I have a wonderful husband who works hard to provide for us, and an amazing son who brings me joy every day. I'd like to spend more time blogging about that which I hold dear - although that gets hectic at times, too!

I will post a link on this blog to my new blog very soon - in case anyone is interested in following or just checking in from time to time. I'm sure there will be 50's tidbits here and there in the new blog - after all, you can take the girl out of the 50's, but you can't take the 50's out of the girl!

Thanks to all for keeping up with me here! This is June Wanna-Be, signing off!

No Rest for the Weary Wife

The time has come...to say goodbye...to a favorite ritual of mine.

The daily nap.

My son has recently switched from two naps to one and it has not been a very easy transition! He's doing fine now, but there were a few days last week where my husband couldn't get home from work soon enough because I was exhausted and my poor little non-napper was, too. Finally, I figured out it was a combination of being ready to switch to one nap a day, and the dreaded teething once again.

However, when I say farewell to the siesta, it's not his I'm talking about. Hopefully he'll keep that up until he's 3 or 4! It's, well...my own nap I'm having trouble parting with!

Go ahead, judge away - but it's tiring chasing a 13 month old, and keeping non-edible items out of his mouth, and getting your finger bitten several times a day, and on and on! I get up at 6 and on good nights get to bed around 10:30 - it's been so lovely to have a nap almost any day I want one.

But this 50's housewife life is a work in progress - and as I progress...or start to see less progress than I would like - I see it's probably only going to improve if I'm willing to part with my beloved nap. I couldn't even find time to make my mincemeat yet and that post was well over a week ago! If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it all the way.

Wish me luck - and better wish my husband luck, too! I can imagine I'll be far less pleasant to be around sans-nap. If things get too out of control, Amy Vanderbilt has this advice:

A tired mother needing a bath and a nap might employ a baby-sitter to watch the baby in the playpen, sandbox, or nursery (p. 321).

Well, at least it's comforting to know that 50's housewives weren't robots after all...they got tired, too. That makes me feel at least a little better about life!

Technical Difficulties

Hello all,

Sorry to have stopped posting for a while! I'm actually having some computer problems (aka my computer completely crashed and won't even turn on) so it's been tough to be able to get to another computer and blog. Until we can get it fixed, I will have limited access to my husband's work computer, so the blogging will be quite sparse at worst and intermittent at best. I'm sad because I have so many fun things I want to write about in the future, but I'm keeping track of all of them, and I'm sure I will be back soon.

I'm hoping to have at least one new post later this week. Until then, I will leave you with at least something from the 5o's: Goodnight and good luck!