Homemaker Moments
It’s good to know that women all over the world are doing their job as wife and mom well (or not so well). And we can come together here with one thing in common- LIFE!
What have you done to fulfill your role in your home this week? Another week’s gone by and it’s time to let it out…
There’s something wrong with the world today…and it’s not just Aerosmith! (ah, flashback!)
As a mom it’s really easy for me to loose sight of what the Bible says my role is- Prov. 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Sounds simple.
I typically use this verse to encourage myself, “surely if I emphasize obedience our children may not turn out so bad”.
I’m here to tell ya…Moms, we are shortchanging ourselves if that’s ALL there is! Obedience MUST be taught, but that’s not ALL there is to training a child!!
Where am I going with this?? Let me show you the source of my soapbox-
Cute little boy onesie, but can you see what it says? Look closer…
It seems harmless enough, but it represents something very important. A mentality that I have fallen into so many times. A trap that I fall into so often. Short-sightedness.
First of all, “property of” WHO?? Not mommy…
GOD!
God alone has ownership of this child wearing this onesie! Mom is just the vessel. An important role, it is. But mom didn’t create this child and mom didn’t love him first.
Any clue where I’m going now?
I don’t know much about anything, but I DO know the importance of a mom’s role in her son’s life. When they are young, we are all they have. We feed, bathe, clothe, love and nuture these boys. That’s our role in the whole thing.
What is our motive though? To do this FOREVER? Heck NO!!
Aren’t we doing this so that they will make wonderful husbands and fathers someday? So that they will learn how to take care of their families and be the head of their own household? That they might love their wives like it commands in Ephesians?
We have to be prepared to LET GO of these boys someday. I think it’s so important to know what we’re working toward so that we don’t loose sight of the goal.
One way that I do this is by praying and asking God to reveal to me what each of my kids needs. God is so faithful to show me what He wants for them…usually through scripture. I have authority over my boys right now, but there will come a day when they will “leave their father and mother” and become one flesh with their wife. I want to be able to step away on that day and know that my sons are prepared and armed with the knowledge that they need to do their jobs well. They aren’t ”Property of Mom Forever”, only a few short years.
This week I was reminded that I need to step it up with my boys. They need my full attention. My complete focus. Not merely a glance and smile. They need set apart time and hugs. They need to know that I’m FOR them and I ENJOY who they are.
I made efforts toward that this week…playing boardgames together, stopping and looking as each of them spoke to me, laughing at their goofiness, getting interested in what they were doing, and being amazed at their capabilities. They are really wonderful boys!!
Here we are playing Mouse Trap together.
Goal: THINK LONG-TERM!
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One other Homemaker Moment for this week. If you look on my sidebar you’ll see a “diaper counter”. I am keeping count of how many diapers I change each week. I think this information will come in handy for me in the future! (to clarify…I have 2 babies in diapers- the same size diapers in fact)
Last week was a whoppin’ 61 Diapers!!! That’s a lot of excrement folks!
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Happy Homemakering!!
Angie
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Angie, that is great and something we as mothers should always remember. Our children belong to GOD…we must keep the goal in mind of raising them to love, honor and fear the Lord and out of that they will marry (leave and cleave) and be loving husbands who are able to wash their wife in the word of God. THAT was a run on sentence if ever there was one.
I forgot today was Friday Homemaker Moments day! I will post something too!
Comment left on January 23, 2009 @ 9:34 am
Oh and I am sure our sons wives will thank us for not holding them as our property forever!
Comment left on January 23, 2009 @ 9:35 am
Well, this seems to be the week for sons! Of course I have two sons that I live with versus one daugther that I don’t so most of my homemaker moments will be about sons I s’pose! :O)
Seeing that Nicolle and Ang both shared more than one moment, I will too this week!
I have two moments for this week. One involves our oldest son. I find it interesting that both of you mom’s had moments with your sons as well. Angie, you are right! There is sooo much more to training them up than teaching obedience! Mason’s experience/track record with girls has not been very good to say the least. He often “falls” for girls that only like him as a friend/brother and nothing more. Typically he has gotten over these infatuations fairly quickly but the most recent one has hit him rather hard. I think it is because this is the first godly young woman he’s had a crush on. She has the attributes that his dad and I have encouraged him to look for in a young lady. The girls in the past have been passing fancies but, for whatever reason, this one is different. Seeing how hard he’s been taking it this time, I thought it might be a good idea to share with him some godly advice that a wise woman (thank you Christi!) shared with me recently. I told him that if God has someone chosen for him to spend his life with it is only ONE someone and he is to WAIT for that someONE that God has chosen for him! Waiting doesn’t only mean keeping himself physically pure but emotionally guarded as well. He can’t be going around willy-nilly giving his emotions away so easily to any girl that comes along! He is to guard the precious love that God has given him for that ONE young lady until God brings her into his life! It is not only young ladies that are to be as unscaleable (sp?!) walls! As a young man, it is his responsibility to guard his emotions and heart and to protect that special love that he will share one day with the ONE God has set aside for him. Those things are meant for her and her alone! I’m not sure how he received that but I trust that the Lord will reveal to him how precious the love is that He has given him for THE ONE! I just encouraged him to keep this matter in prayer asking God to give him the wisdom to recognize THE ONE when He brings her into his life. I then shared with him something my dad always told me, “This too shall pass!” :O)
The second homemaker moment of this week concerns something that Angie and I have actually been discussing thru email and she’d been praying about with met. After two years of praying, Eric and I finally feel that now is the time to pull our youngest out of public school and home school him. We believe that this is the right season for homeschooling him so we will begin next Fall. I have been diligently praying, ravenously reading books from the library, visiting home school websites, asking my home school mom friend’s questions, etc. in preparation for next year. I have had my moments of doubt because Farrell and I are so much alike and not in good ways…ha! I have wondered if maybe we are too much alike and that we’ll be butting heads too much to really make a success of this home school thing. Our experience with homework has been stressful to say the least but Eric keeps reminding me that we are doing 2-3 hours of homework each afternoon/evening after a full day of school so I’m not getting him when he’s “fresh” but rather when he’s “cashed in” and ready to be done with school for the day. I keep praying for God to give me some sign/encouragement that this is the right thing. Well, altho Farrell didn’t have any pressing homework this week (no tests to study for), he has a couple of tests coming up next week so I thought we’d get a jump start on studying for those this week to ease the stress a little next week. When he came home yesterday, we jumped online and checked out some multiplication facts games and a geography game. We had the best time playing those games! It was really fun to see him try to beat his best time not to mention seeing him learn while having fun! It was exactly what I needed and God knew it! It was such an encouraging moment and altho I know there will be challenging times ahead (there always will be when beginning something new), I believe that the Lord is leading us to home school next year and that HE IS ABLE to not only make it a successful experience but also an opportunity to grow closer to my youngest while glorifying God in this God given mission! PRAISE THE LORD!
Comment left on January 23, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
Well, this is definitely the week for sons…I agree!
First of all, I praise and thank the Lord for the amazing honor and opportunity of being home with my 3 precious children! It doesn’t always seem like that and I don’t always have the “attitude” about it, but the Lord is merciful to me and corrects my attitude when I am wrong. And this is something He very recently has done for me. He opened my eyes once again to see my children through His eyes. I love my children sooooo much so how much more must He love them! He loves his children with a selfless and very patient love. And I, for one, am so thankful for that, especially His patience with me.
I was convicted of allowing this world and the worries, cares, and even my responsibilities in it consume me and in that, I lost sight of the honorable purpose in this life that gave me, of all people. I am first called to serve God, my husband, and my children. That is the beginning of the list for me. He so graciously opened my eyes and “put me in my place”. I have been truly enjoying every moment with my children this week, my husband, and our family as a whole. Of course, this week is not the only time I have enjoyed them, but I had lost my sight for a time.
Just like you said about truly stopping and taking the time to intently listen to them, watching them and allowing them to see the pure joy that they bring to your face and to your life.
I am an abundantly blessed woman and I embrace my purpose with open arms and am very excited about serving my family well: with joy, peace, fun and creativity!
Praise God for doing this in me and through me, because without Him, I am of no worth.
One more thing, back to the topic of patience. I had always heard to not pray for that because you would be tested as testing often produces patience. Well, I started praying for this several months back and boy, have I been tested! But it has been such a sweet thing and i am rejoicing now because of it. Just as the Lord is ever so patient with me, I want to be that way with my children, specifically my boys (because they are the ones that push the limits right now) The Lord is showing me this and helping me so much in this area. And one thing that is so true is the area of taking the time to train them rather than just discipline. Training takes time and patience, but it is so important and such a loving thing to do for your children. This is something we will be directing our focus back to in certain areas.
So, there ya go- my homemaker moments for now as well as my praise to an awesome God because it is He that does these things…..NOT me.
Comment left on January 23, 2009 @ 3:39 pm