Weekends or Not?
I remember thinking all while growing up that I did not want to live like most of America seems to live: for the weekends. It seemed like everyone moaned and groaned when Monday came, and they'd hurry through the other 4 days of the week just to get to Friday. "What's the point?", I wondered. "Why aren't the 5 other days of the week just as valuable as Saturday and Sunday?" It got to the point that that mindset disgusted me, and I vowed to never be that way.
Regretably, I did adapt to that mindset for a short while during a job that I had. I was disgusted about my job and what was happening at the workplace, and knew that soon I'd be able to end it. Soon wasn't good enough though, and every day I dreaded going to that place.
Now I'm a stay-at-home-wife (as my husband calls it) and I believe that it is a high calling from God. I've struggled with how to phrase my new job title, how to explain our decision for me to stay at home, and how to justify it as a very real job. I love being at home, love caring for my small family of two, and look forward to the time when I can branch out and care for the community that we'll be a part of. I know that this is a part of what I was made to do, and I'm thankful that I have a husband that supports and encourages this dream of mine.
In the midst of trying to figure out how to stay a loyal, newlywedded wife to my husband with extended family around, I've found that I now dread the weekends. I look forward to being with my husband for an extended period of time, but all else can fall to the wayside as far as I'm concerened. We don't have our own place, there are ears and eyes everywhere and things don't opertate here in a way that we're used to. Every day I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs so the entire house can hear, "I'm rubber and you're glue! Whatever you say/think/try to make others think/feel bounces off me and sticks to you!" Ahh. If only it were that easy to deflect...
So, not only am I fulfilling my vow that I made long ago, I'm now living for the day we move out! Haha, please pray for us!
Regretably, I did adapt to that mindset for a short while during a job that I had. I was disgusted about my job and what was happening at the workplace, and knew that soon I'd be able to end it. Soon wasn't good enough though, and every day I dreaded going to that place.
Now I'm a stay-at-home-wife (as my husband calls it) and I believe that it is a high calling from God. I've struggled with how to phrase my new job title, how to explain our decision for me to stay at home, and how to justify it as a very real job. I love being at home, love caring for my small family of two, and look forward to the time when I can branch out and care for the community that we'll be a part of. I know that this is a part of what I was made to do, and I'm thankful that I have a husband that supports and encourages this dream of mine.
In the midst of trying to figure out how to stay a loyal, newlywedded wife to my husband with extended family around, I've found that I now dread the weekends. I look forward to being with my husband for an extended period of time, but all else can fall to the wayside as far as I'm concerened. We don't have our own place, there are ears and eyes everywhere and things don't opertate here in a way that we're used to. Every day I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs so the entire house can hear, "I'm rubber and you're glue! Whatever you say/think/try to make others think/feel bounces off me and sticks to you!" Ahh. If only it were that easy to deflect...
So, not only am I fulfilling my vow that I made long ago, I'm now living for the day we move out! Haha, please pray for us!
posted by Kelly | 6:10 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Kelly,
My title for a (stay-at-home-mom)is a "Domestic Engineer" :-)
I believe that a stay-at-home-mom is the most blessed and the greatest job a woman could have!
The children have to come first before an outside career! (I realize that sometimes a woman has to work to help make ends meet!)
I believe your job is the hardest job on the planet!
A man cannot ask for anything more in life than having a loving Christian wife and a dedicated loving mom that makes a house feel like a "home" when the husband comes home from work!
I know because I am also married to a woman like that! I am truly blessed with Louise!
Jeff is truly blessed with you!
Thanks Frank, I appreciate the encouragement on this subject!!
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