I am looking for an old children’s book called “Betsy Keeps House” (?)?

Or it could be “Keeping house with Betsy”. It’s set in the 1950s or 1940s and the story is about a girl whose mother teaches her to help her to keep house because there’s a little brother on the way.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks!

It sounds like one of the Betsy-Tacy books by Maude Hart Lovelace:

There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do–a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy’s fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person–Betsy-Tacy.

http://www.amazon.com/Betsy-Tacy-Books-Maud-Hart-Lovelace/dp/0064400964

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