Free from impediment, obstruction, or hinderanceDiscerning or perceiving easily; keen; a clear mind
Free from guilt; untroubled; a clear conscience
Dear Lord...help me in these areas...
Free from impediment, obstruction, or hinderanceDiscerning or perceiving easily; keen; a clear mind Free from guilt; untroubled; a clear conscience
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Okay. So maybe that subject line is a little out of control...but some days I honestly try to remember life before Pinterest...or Google...or the Internet even... I wrote all of that to write this. Sometimes you find little nuggets of goodness in the places you least expect...almost like the flakes of coconut that I mixed in my cookie batter this last time...it just shows up out of nowhere and puts a smile on your face. Anyway this morning, and I mean early this morning, when I was feeding Selah I was reading verses on the computer to include in "daddy's" note (we...ahem...I...always write Corey a note to put in his lunchbox...see? Nuggets of goodness!) and I stumbled across this blog via Pinterest. I read an awesome post about parenting (you should all go and read it right now...it reminds me of my childhood...and beats to the rhythm of the same drum as yesterday's post) and next thing I know I'm blog-hopping (for those of you who are like me, this can happen very quickly...and before you know it, you wonder how you got there). Anyway, the blogger is Lara Casey (she does a bunch of other cool things besides blogging...so check her out) and she writes a lot about making life happen. This means a lot to me. We get so caught up in our everyday "stuff", we often times lose sight of what God has for us....what He wants from us. I love how she wrote about being still....I feel like God has been placing that thought in my mind for at least the past year....it's actually one of the reasons we named our daughter Selah Evangeline...to pause and think about the good word/message. With that being said, I am a list maker. I make lists for EVERYTHING....so of course I would love the fact that she is inspiring people to make a "clear" list for the month of October. I encourage you to go read the full post and challenge you to make a list too. While Lara asks that you share your lists with her, I'd love to see the lists you all make too. There is no better way to love than to lift up others! So how do you create the list? Read the definitions below (all images came from Lara by the way) and choose which ones you can relate with most. Like I said, go read her full post. I am in the process of creating my list and will post it asap. Little one is waking up from her nap and I need to finish getting dinner around anyway! In the meantime, here is something to make your eyes happy...Isn't she adorable? And to make your ears happy: It was all because of her and probably not the her you are thinking. It was her...the warm and loving, God-fearing, creative being that the Lord blessed me with for a mother. That is what brought me to this place of grande decisions.
I suppose I can cut to the chase and just say that I finally quit my job. Pretty intense right? I know what you are thinking....after all of those laboring years in college and the lack of teaching positions in the area? How could I do such a thing!? It's not that my job was extremely unbarable or that I don't love teaching, it is just that I LOVE her (Selah) so much more. For those of you who know me, you know I have always jokingly despised the feminist movement. Not that I am against some of the benefits we've reaped from it nor do I believe women shouldn't work...I have always said it simply because I've always enjoyed the "wife-as-homemaker" concept. While many people don't necessarily like the idea of playing that role, ever since I was a young girl that's what I wanted. Maybe I was brain-washed as a child or maybe it was because I had a great role model. My mom was the best mom that a kid could have...and because I believed that with all of my heart, it's what I aspired to be. When I was in elementary school we had to write a "When I grow up" speech (that we had to say in front of the whole school, by the way), and while my friends all wrote about becoming vets and doctors, I wrote about becoming a mom...just like my mom. While that was "cute" in elementary school, by middle school it became harder for me to write about being "just a mom". Not because I had changed my feelings about it and not because I couldn't come up with some really good points for my papers, it was because my teachers always made me pick a "real" career...by 6th grade I was already stressed about "what I was going to do" with my future. As the years passed and more essays were written, I cycled through many (and I mean many) career choices. There was the engineering phase...the teaching phase...then the nursing phase...then the teaching phase again. Each were reasonable and I was completely capable of being good at them....but I decided on teaching. For the sake of time (and short attention spans...), I did the teaching thing...got married to a wonderful husband...and had a beautiful girl. The minute they placed that beautiful girl in my arms, I knew I couldn't go back to work...even though that was the plan. Luckily, hubs felt the same way. So after prayer and God opening some doors (hubs got a full-time 4th grade position) we decided that this was what was what needed to be done. And while I plan on doing the teaching thing again one day, this is where I need to be right now. Let me tell you...I couldn't be happier. I feel so blessed to be able to do this because I know that there are a lot of moms out there who want to stay home but are not able to.... I will do my best to keep updating, but in the meantime, I'm going to hang out with my little... |
{mrs}I am a wife, newly stay-at-home-mommy, daughter, sister, teacher, worship leader, photographer, craftster, baker, & artist. All I want...is to be simple. Categories
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