I decided to Google "What is a Homemaker?" before I wrote this post and I was brokenhearted by what found online. Urban Dictionary was the worst. The awful things that are said about being at home raising children is downright awful.
I remember being a small child and wanting to be a mom when I grew up. I remember being told that wasn't a career choice so I had to choose something else. I chose teacher. It was the closest thing to a mom I could pick. So I joined Future Teachers of America club in high school along with other groups that allowed me to work with younger children and get a feel for teaching. Then after high school I headed to college and preceded to waste money on an education that I only used for two years of teaching. Then I became a nanny and then a mom and haven't looked back. Why?
I HAVE MY DREAM JOB!
How many people in the workforce can actually say they wake up every morning and head off to their dream job? I don't think it would be that many. But I'm a lucky one!
It's not watching TV and eating BonBon's. It's hard work every day. It's caring for other peoples needs 24 hours a day. I'm on call at all times. Hubby needs a healthy meal to get him started in the day. Boys needs food ALL DAY LONG along with teaching, play time, and cuddle time. It's waking up in the middle of the night to change wet sheets or help an upset tummy. It is never ending cleaning each day. No matter how much I get accomplished there is always more. It is running errands, managing finances, and getting out into the world to enjoy other people outside our little home. It's reading stories, making crafts, playing games. It's teaching respect, manners, and many other character qualities that take hours of instruction on top of the regular reading, writing, arithmetic.
Homemaking is serving others almost every moment of every day. But I wouldn't trade this life for anything. My boys know that I'm always there for them whenever they need me. They know they are safe to explore new things where ever we go because mom is there to help them through whatever the new task might be. Homemaking is watching my children grow, learn, and experience life with me!
Homemaking is so much more than just cleaning house, folding laundry, and cooking meals. It's more than just sitting around and wasting time reading romance novels, watching TV or checking out of reality on social media.
Homemaking is being present in our daily lives and the lives of those we hold closet to our hearts every moment of every day. Homemaking is a positive in both my life and the life of my family.
So what is a homemaker?
A homemaker is a person who is present daily to serve those who are most important in their life. That's what I believe a homemaker is!
Please share what your thoughts are about being a homemaker!
This is the most awesome blog post I have ever read! Home making is so important! My mom was a stay at home mom, and people used to give her a hard time about not being out in the "work field". I am so grateful my mom chose to stay home to raise me and my brothers! Keep up the good wonderful important work! There's a really good devotional I read about motherhood! I think you would enjoy it! Here's the link: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1997/04/because-she-is-a-mother?lang=eng .
ReplyDeleteHere's my favorite quote from it! "Yours is the grand tradition of Eve, the mother of all the human family, the one who understood that she and Adam had to fall in order that “men [and women] might be” and that there would be joy. Yours is the grand tradition of Sarah and Rebekah and Rachel, without whom there could not have been those magnificent patriarchal promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob which bless us all. Yours is the grand tradition of Lois and Eunice and the mothers of the 2,000 stripling warriors. Yours is the grand tradition of Mary, chosen and foreordained from before this world was, to conceive, carry, and bear the Son of God Himself. We thank all of you, including our own mothers, and tell you there is nothing more important in this world than participating so directly in the work and glory of God, in bringing to pass the mortality and earthly life of His daughters and sons, so that immortality and eternal life can come in those celestial realms on high.
When you have come to the Lord in meekness and lowliness of heart and, as one mother said, “pounded on the doors of heaven to ask for, to plead for, to demand guidance and wisdom and help for this wondrous task,” that door is thrown open to provide you the influence and the help of all eternity. Claim the promises of the Savior of the world. Ask for the healing balm of the Atonement for whatever may be troubling you or your children. Know that in faith things will be made right in spite of you, or more correctly, because of you.
You can’t possibly do this alone, but you do have help. The Master of Heaven and Earth is there to bless you—He who resolutely goes after the lost sheep, sweeps thoroughly to find the lost coin, waits everlastingly for the return of the prodigal son. Yours is the work of salvation, and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have ever been as you try to make honest effort, however feeble you may sometimes feel that to be.
Remember, remember all the days of your motherhood: “Ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.”
Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.” You are doing God’s work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you and He will bless you, even—no, especially—when your days and your nights may be the most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master’s garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.” And it will make your children whole as well." - Jeffrey R. Holland
Thank you so much for your comment and I love the quote you shared! I'm looking up the link right now :)
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