Hestia - goddess of hearth & home

I love that Hestia isn't the goddess of housekeeping or chores or something like that.  She is the goddess of hearth & home.  That sounds so much warmer and so much more like the kind of goddess I want to be.  Since becoming the goddess of my own hearth and home, I have learned quite a few things.  Number one: that an orderly, clean home with a good spirit inside doesn't happen by accident.  For some reason I didn't get that growing up.  Our house was always clean and orderly, and heck, I don't know what goes on in a kid's (or teenager's) mind to make em think that kind of stuff happens magically, but I did.  Luckily, I've wised up, and now I realize that if the dishes are done, it's because someone did them (probably more than once that day), and that throw pillows don't stay fluffed - they don't even stay in the right place, and if your house is anything like mine, they're put back and fluffed more than once a day.  Here's to Hestia and all of us who work so hard to make our homes retreats and havens for our families.