Okay, so life has calmed down a lot for me and I don't want to go back to the way things were. Soooo I am trying to decide if it was worth the little bit of money that I was making to substitute teach was worth the hassel that it brought. Lets see, I finally have all the kids in school (which quite frankly I am not as happy about that as it sounds) and I am too busy to enjoy the peace and quiet. This last week I have not been called into work so I have been enjoying the time that I have to do house work and relax, go to the store with out kids and relax, run errands and you guessed it relax. I have been able to go back to helping my darling children with their homework and I don't feel stressed out of my mind. I can make dinner and enjoy talking with my kids without wanting to send them to Egypt just because they are playing. I can do my calling and not feel like I have to take away time that is precious from my family because I am spending time with them. I think that maybe it is time for me to realize that there is a time for every season and right now it is my time to be a mom, a stay at home mom that does not try to add substitute teaching to the list, the long list of things that must be done as a mother of seven.
Sometimes I get a little side tracked but the Lord always brings me back to the present and helps me to see what is the most important thing in my life and that is my family. For all you stay at home moms out there I think you will appreciate this next statement. Why is it that we are treated as if we are completely brain dead?? I have a brain and I am very knowlegable. I work twice as hard as a lot of people with no children. So when people ask me what I do and I say that I am a stay at home mom it is completely crazy for me to feel as if I am some kind of a lesser person. I am a mom and that is the greatest job in the world. When you are a mom you are a chef, dietician, maid, taxi driver, psycologist, teacher, nurse ..... okay so you get the picture. Well this is kind of a crazy post but it is how I'm feeling so I guess I am going to close my eyes and just publish it.
1 comment:
NO WAY! I didn't know you felt that way! Being a stay at home mom is the greatest and noblest of all professions. It is a higher calling. You have always been an awesome example to me of how Mom's should be! When I have kids, I want to be a wife first, mom second, and nothing else really matters :)
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