I think you would like Anne Bradstreet. She was a Puritan poet writing in the 1600s, and she wrote about nearly everything that happened in her life--her children, her children getting sick, her house burning down...

This (http://www.annebradstreet.com/the_author_to_her_book.htm) is the prologue to her first book of poetry, and this (http://www.annebradstreet.com/verses_upon_the_burning_of_our_house.htm) is the poem she wrote about her house burning down.