Happy New Year

We at The (real) Stepford Wives Association believe strongly in a well organized life. What better way to begin but the start of a whole new year? The calendar is clear, and the year begins fresh and shiny. It's also time to exchange the red and green for gold and white. Out with the old and in with new (year).

Have plenty of champagne for good cheer as we and our sisters in Stepford, begin the year in style.

Our first tip is once the Christmas decorations are put away, the tree taken down, the thank you notes written and mailed, it's time to go through the mountain of cards. It's the perfect opportunity to update your card list, and double check mailing addresses. Also, make special notes of children's names and ages so your never caught unawares. Make a resolution to keep in touch more than once per year. If your not close enough to warrant a phone call, you might want to rethink if they're worth the effort of a stamp.

Buy all your birthday cards for the year in early January. Make a list, check it twice, address the envelope, and file it by month. We shy away from prewriting them out, but for some it might be appropriate. Others might want to include something more personal note -- such as mentioning a big vacation they recently took.

Also take a moment to write down each birthday on your calendar, including children. Don't forget important coworkers of your husband, including spouses and anniversary or celebratory occasions. Our husbands always marvel at how we keep all those important dates. Also, when purchasing cards, add a few blank (not too feminine) and others such as, condolence, get well, congratulations and just generic "thinking of you." January is the perfect time to make sure you have few extra of each type in addition to all those important cards. Update throughout the year, when you buy special occasion cards (Valentimes, Mother's Day, etc). Next December begin constructing next year's list.

Start the year with clean sheets. It sounds silly, but beginning the year with all the wash, all the cleaning, all the beds with spanking clean bedding is a most fine way to begin the year.

Make a sound resolution to be the best reflection of your husband and embrace more the fact that everything you do is really for him and because of him.

 

Raising a Family

There is no finer joy than we at The (real) Stepford Wives Association find than serving our husbands. Raising our children comes close. Our sons learn from a young age to be gentlemen. Our daughters, while we hope they would chose to follow in our footfalls, it is more important for them to find their own place. We pass on our household tips on everything from cooking to stain removal. While our sons learn to be protective of women in our homes, the daughters learn what it means to take care of the home. While we encourage our daughters to get good grades, and attend college, even having a career if they desire, we also firmly believe they are in training to be wives and mothers. Like our mother's had raised us, we had veered far from the path, thinking we knew best. But our mothers and grandmothers had it right. Our place is to care for the family.

We made the right choice to put our husbands first with our homes and children close behind. Please do not be put off by the order. Children thrive in a well-kept home, rather than the chaos of an unkept one. A home where healthful meals are prepared from scratch. The children feel secure, especially when their parents are happy.

We at The (real) Stepford Wives strive for this level of perfection in all we do.