Hey guys! I just wanted to stop past really quickly to let you know I’m guest posting over at Just a Girl and her blog today. If you loved Jaxon’s navy striped bedroom reveal last week and wanted some more deets about that show-stopper striped feature wall – I’m sharing a tutorial about how I did it right here!
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New to your blog. I LOVE this post and I needed to read it today! Thank you!!
New to your blog. I LOVE this post and I needed to read it today! Thank you!!
Thanks so much Kassie for taking the time to say so. I'm so glad this spoke to you. xo
Thanks so much Kassie for taking the time to say so. I'm so glad this spoke to you. xo
Wow. What a wonderful post. I wish every parent and parent-to-be could read this. It would make the world a better place. At least where I live, it has become so natural to let other people raise your children, that most people I meet seem to think it's selfish and/or to the detriment of the child to keep them at home in the pre-school years. No wonder our society is in tatters! Thank you for this valuable affirmation!
Wow. What a wonderful post. I wish every parent and parent-to-be could read this. It would make the world a better place. At least where I live, it has become so natural to let other people raise your children, that most people I meet seem to think it's selfish and/or to the detriment of the child to keep them at home in the pre-school years. No wonder our society is in tatters! Thank you for this valuable affirmation!
Thank you Monique! <3 Our society can be so back-to-front, can't it? So glad there are people who still celebrate motherhood instead of demeaning it. xo
Thank you Monique! <3 Our society can be so back-to-front, can't it? So glad there are people who still celebrate motherhood instead of demeaning it. xo
Oh my. This is so well said. I always felt this way while raising my kids. It made me mean and resentful sometimes. Then my husband died when my children were 16, and I doubly felt this invisibility. His death *really* prompted people to ask me when I was going to work. "I am using what little energy and focus I have to make sure my children complete high school and go to college!" But that wasn't really heard. The kids are now in college and the cry has risen again: when are you going to work? Well, I don't know what work to do, frankly. I spent all those years doing the things you enumerate here, and seem to have no marketable skills. So we'll just see. Am going to share this on my facebook page for all the women I know who feel just like we do.
Oh my. This is so well said. I always felt this way while raising my kids. It made me mean and resentful sometimes. Then my husband died when my children were 16, and I doubly felt this invisibility. His death *really* prompted people to ask me when I was going to work. "I am using what little energy and focus I have to make sure my children complete high school and go to college!" But that wasn't really heard. The kids are now in college and the cry has risen again: when are you going to work? Well, I don't know what work to do, frankly. I spent all those years doing the things you enumerate here, and seem to have no marketable skills. So we'll just see. Am going to share this on my facebook page for all the women I know who feel just like we do.
Sheryl, your comment really touched my heart. I'm so sorry for your loss and for the way you've been made to feel devalued in what you do. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to face re-entering the workforce after such a long time. I want to encourage you that no experience in your life is wasted. God has a plan and purpose for you. HE SEES YOU and he loves you, not because of your résumé or career potential but for who you are. Your worth is not found in what you do, it's found in him. Blessings on your journey! xo
Sheryl, your comment really touched my heart. I'm so sorry for your loss and for the way you've been made to feel devalued in what you do. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to face re-entering the workforce after such a long time. I want to encourage you that no experience in your life is wasted. God has a plan and purpose for you. HE SEES YOU and he loves you, not because of your résumé or career potential but for who you are. Your worth is not found in what you do, it's found in him. Blessings on your journey! xo
I so needed to read this when I have a day where I feel that I do nothing when I'm "only" at home.
I so needed to read this when I have a day where I feel that I do nothing when I'm "only" at home.
Hearing you, girl! It's not nothing… what you do matters. xo
Hearing you, girl! It's not nothing… what you do matters. xo
This is exactly what I needed to hear today. I'm constantly feeling like my life doesn't matter. I'm just a stay at home mom..my husband has the real job because he brings home a paycheck…these kids don't appreciate me. It's great to feel even for this moment that I matter and that I do matters. My husband is urging me to find a part time job and I feel like it's his way of saying I have it easy at home I need to be really working. And like Sheryl I've been doing this for so long I wouldn't even know what else to do. But this post gives me encouragement that no matter what I do I'm important. Thank you.
This is exactly what I needed to hear today. I'm constantly feeling like my life doesn't matter. I'm just a stay at home mom..my husband has the real job because he brings home a paycheck…these kids don't appreciate me. It's great to feel even for this moment that I matter and that I do matters. My husband is urging me to find a part time job and I feel like it's his way of saying I have it easy at home I need to be really working. And like Sheryl I've been doing this for so long I wouldn't even know what else to do. But this post gives me encouragement that no matter what I do I'm important. Thank you.
YES Nicole… you do matter. And what you do matters. I so completely understand those feelings. Wish I could give you a big hug… and so glad you found encouragement here today. Keep on keeping on, mama! You're amazing, and your family needs the gift of yourself that you give to them every single day. xoxo
YES Nicole… you do matter. And what you do matters. I so completely understand those feelings. Wish I could give you a big hug… and so glad you found encouragement here today. Keep on keeping on, mama! You're amazing, and your family needs the gift of yourself that you give to them every single day. xoxo