Homemaker Moments
Join me for some role-fulfilling fun! Homemaker Moments is here every Friday to give other women the opportunity to link up and talk about our experiences throughout the week in fulfilling our roles at home. Whether you’ve done great or you’ve totally bombed it just feels good to know let it all out. Blog Therapy!
This week I was pretty much down for the count…sick as a dog. Remember?
I did purposefully avoid kissing my husband good night…he thanked me for that. I switched one load of wet clothes to the dryer. Wednesday is my dishes day so I couldn’t get out of that one easily- one load wasn’t bad though.
Other than that, all I did was help move everything I own into a new residence. Nothing to brag about. Ahem.
How about you? What did you accomplish this week?
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1. Write a post for Homemaker Moments on YOUR blog and include the Homemaker Moments button.
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I’m linked up! I hope you are feeling better now sister!
Comment left on May 8, 2009 @ 6:44 am
I am actually having kind of an emotional week this week (okay…well, more like an emotional year really…). Our oldest son’s last day of high school was yesterday. He’s had three banquets this week (the last one is tonight) to celebrate the honor/scholarship graduates and the athletes. His actual graduation is a week from tomorrow (May 16th). He had a job interview yesterday for a part-time job (and he JUST found out that he got it…PRAISE THE LORD!) and he has another job interview today. He wants to work as much as possible before college starts to save up money for gas, car insurance, etc.
It is really hard to believe that this time has come…and come so quickly. *sigh* I feel like I missed much of his childhood and teen years because I was so focused on the necessities of raising children, keeping house, and even working intermittently during his grade school years.
If there is one thing I would encourage all moms with younger children to do, it would be to SLOW DOWN!!! No, REALLY SLOW DOWN and really take time to just BE with your kids. Yes, there are things that have to be done every day that are just a part of life but there are also those things that really can take a back seat to your children (including housework…yeah, that’s right…I said it!). Much of the “stuff” we fill our days with can wait until tomorrow…or the next day…or the next…
For me this is a lesson learned a little late but it is never too late to redeem the time, right?! I think this is one of the main reasons I want to home school our youngest son. I really want to savor every moment I can with him. This year has been a time of catch-up for me with our Sr. and it has been good. He’s a really neat kid and I am blessed to know him! I believe that the Lord has great things in store for his life and I am thankful to be a witness to that.
So, I guess this isn’t really a Homemaker Moment as much as it is a Homemaker Life Lesson. I want to encourage young moms out there to really appreciate the RIGHT NOW with their kids…every stinkin’ second of it! I remember a time when my own mom and other older ladies I respect and love gave me this advice after I had our first son. At that time I was so knee deep in dirty diapers and feedings I really didn’t appreciate their advice. Well, the dirty diaper days with my own children have been a thing of the past for about 9 years now. Man! Were those ladies right! Time really does fly and it is taking those precious few childhood moments of our children right along with it! I wish I would have listened to this advice when it was first given. I know that you guys have probably all heard this advice before and I do believe that some of the younger mom’s I know are taking this advice to heart more than I did at their age but I just want to put it out there…again…one more time.
God bless you guys!
Comment left on May 8, 2009 @ 9:06 am
I was thinking of what I would share today, if I shared at all and Nicolle you could not have read my mind any better with your last statement. All that kept coming to my mind when thinking of sharing today was scripture, “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Gal 6:14
“But He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corin 12:19
“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 2 Corin 10:17
So, let me take a minute to boast in the Lord to you.
In my flesh, it is all too easy for me to sometimes get caught up in what others think of me and in doing so, I then find myself making attempts to impress. This is one of my many weaknesses, so rather than share what “I” did, let me instead share a short moment from our week where the Lord used an everyday sort of thing to once again show His incredible love for me. Because aside from the Lord, I have nothing good to offer and can do nothing.
I was talking with my husband one evening and I expressed my frustration with one of our children who had been very disobedient that day. I was telling my husband how frustrating it was to continue to go over and over the same rules and the same issue. I was expressing through his disobedience, it just seemed as though he did not care about what I was telling him or even about pleasing me. There was more to the conversation , but you get the point. At that very moment, as I was speaking, I found myself all of the sudden, speechless. The Lord very clearly showed me a picture of myself and and my relationship with Him at times. All of the frustration and words I had just spoken were completely turned around on me and I was now the child I was speaking about and frustrated with.
I looked at my husband and just said, “Wow, what patience and love God has for me. If I feel this way, i cannot even imagine how He feels with me sometimes.”
I am so thankful to the Lord for those moments where He reminds those that are His, of the incredible amount of love He has for them and shows them everyday.
Not only has the Lord saved me from an eternity in Hell, but He has redeemed my life and daily shows me MUCH grace, mercy and love.
I am so thankful to Him. This also softened my heart even more for my children. Now that does not mean that I ignore disobedience but it does mean that I am looking to the Lord daily for His patience and gentleness to flow through me for my children.
Comment left on May 8, 2009 @ 12:49 pm