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What's the difference between a house and a home? While a house is solid and concrete, a home consist of family.
A home is somewhere you can call your own. In all, what makes a house a home is family and warmth, a beautiful sense of belonging somewhere.
A house is a place you live in, while a home provides you with mental and emotional support, a place filled with warmth that you always look forward to being in after a hard day's work. So if you are never enthusiastic about going home, then you live in a house not a home. There are a number of ways to build your house into a home.
1. Make memories
Memories are the strong points that make you long for home when you are away from it. Have you ever felt home sick when you are away from your home? Fill your home with people, love and laughter, filling your house with memories will quickly turn it from a mere house into a home. Always look for an opportunity to make your family laugh, play together, tickle your kids and spouse and make them laugh uncontrollably, create an environment of ease and bliss. Its one of the best ways to make your house a home.
2. Share it
Share the happiness and joy you feel with others, you can invite married friends with their kids over to your house on a weekend, the kids will be playing, the husbands will be gisting while the wives will be cooking and talking. And while you are at it, you can give your husband a loving smile, a peck or a wink. These are the subtle ways to make a house a home, making the love you share radiate towards others.
3. Smell of good cooking
The aroma of sweet food and the noise of children are the things I can remember about my childhood, and I still cherish it till today. Learn to be a good cook, let your children and husband always wake up to that aroma and inhale it deeply. When visitors come visiting, let their nose be clouded with that smell. And when your husband comes back from work and catch the whiff of the smell let him say in his mind "this is home". Remember food is king. "The smell of good food, the smell of home".
4. A place of refuge
Mamalettes are you affectionate, kind and friendly? Warmth only comes when a home radiates the affection and kindness that a mother has put into everything in her home. From the decoration, to the way she relates with her children, husband and friends. You will feel it, it takes a warm woman to create an environment of safety for her family. Turning her home into a place where the husband will long to retire to after work and where the children will run back to after school. So Mamalettes build a warm nest for your husband and children, a cocoon of safety and security where they will come to, and be without no care in the world. If you succeed in doing this, then you have built a home
5. The noise and silence
The sound of noise when everyone is about their daily routine, and the silence after everyone has gone to sleep are one of the things that make a house feel like home. A home is a noisy place, where children play around and make noises, a dog is barking in the backyard, your husband is cutting grass and you are washing pots, all this sounds and activities that we take for granted are what makes a house a home. So if your children want to play around let them, its one of the things that brings warmth into the house and turn it into a home.
6. The routine you go through
We all have things we engage in every day, go to work during weekdays, and during the weekend we bake cake, make snacks, the children play games, then we help them do their home work, this and every other activities we do together, is what makes our house a home. When we do things as a family, any time your husband or children remember this things when they are away from home, a feeling of nostalgia will sweep over them, and they'll feel like running back home immediately.
7. A place we spend time in
Our home should be a place where we like being in, spend time in your home and don't always find an excuse to get away from it. To make your home where your children and family will want to be in, you can have some indoor games for your kids and play it with them, you can also stock your fridge with drinks, drink with your husband, play a nice music and take turns to dance for each other. You can also device different means of spending your spare time with your family. In doing so you are making a home .
Pray together, laugh together, smile together and share ideas. Mamalettes are you there? Make your house into a home today!
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