Just a stay at home mom? This is the question most people ask or say in conversation when I say I decided to stay home with my boys for now. Which makes me get down and question why I choose this. So hear it goes, my theory on why I am not just a stay at home mom. First, I had the privilege and honor of attending college and completing my degre in Early Childhood Education. While going to school, I always thought I would be a working mother in order to provide my family luxuries I never had growing up. Then when expecting Lukrik, I thought I could go to school full time, work part time, and be a mom. Boy was I all wrong! I had to stop working, then took only two classes and realized raising a baby was more than I expected. Once I did student teaching, pregnant with Ezekiel, I thought it will not be too bad! Yikes, was it difficult!! Being a teacher requires so much from you physically, emotionally, and intellectually. To be pregnant on top of all that was not a walk in the park. That's when I realized I cannot be a full time teacher, wife, mom, and person for that matter and keep my sanity! So we prayed about it and figured out finishing school was a huge accomplishment, so I deserved to stay home with the boys and be their main care taker. :)
This is what being a stay at home mom means to me and Lucas too...no child care bill! I have the privilege to care for them! I also get to use my experience as an early childhood educator to help my children develop and grow to their full potential! I am able to cook and bake whatever!! I can teach them to pray and sing about Jesus whenever! I have time to clean and do laundry! I get to do fun crafts and sew stuff for my family! We get to go to the park whenever we feel like it! I can attend to my family when they are sick! We take naps when we need them! We can have play dates with friends! My schedule is more flexible!! These are just things I can think of instantly! :)
So when people ask me what are you doing now? I always want to say I am staying at home with my boys so I can raise them to be amazing God loving men that respect others and are genuinely kind just like their Daddy!! ;)
Monday, October 29, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Life giving love between a man and woman
This has been on my mind lately...life giving love between a man and woman. It originates from our Creator and has potential to be amazing! 1 Peter 4:7 tells us, "Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins." That love which we first come to know from His sacrifice, the cross is that representation, a love that covers a multitude of sins for all time. It is love we encounter daily from all around us, especially family. I love my husband, our children, our parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and close friends! I especially love that the Lord has loved me unconditionally from the beginning of time and has brought all these people into my life to allow me to love and be loved.
In the commitment that marriage makes between man and woman, that love from Christ is the foundation for any marriage to be blessed and work for the rest of those two peoples lives. I look back to when I accepted to spend the rest of my life with Lucas, it was in the time of getting to know one another that we also got to know how much love comes from the Lord. We knew from the beginning that our lives were meant to have that love from the Lord and knew that He had amazing plans for us! At our wedding our nuptial blessing was this: "My dear friends, let us turn to the Lord and pray that He will bless with His grace this woman Krystle now married in Christ to this man Lucas and that he will unite in love the couple He has joined in this holy bond. Father, by your power you have made everything out of nothing. In the beginning you created the universe and made mankind in your own likeness. You gave man the constant help of woman so that man and woman should no longer be two, but one flesh, and you teach us that what you have united may never be divided...Father, keep them always true to your commandments. Keep them faithful in marriage and let them be living examples of Christian life. Give them the strength which comes from the gospel so that they may be witnesses of Christ to others. Bless them with children and help them to be good parents." There was more to it but to shorten it a bit I only put some main points to make sense with these thoughts. This is a beautiful prayer that I look at often just to remember that we have certain commitments within our marriage to help each other reach our main goal, heaven. I especially look at the part to be blessed with children which we already have been! We try our hardest to be good parents!!
It is amazing how our love as husband and wife can make a new little life!!! Being parents is a life changing experience that has made us more in love with one another!
In the commitment that marriage makes between man and woman, that love from Christ is the foundation for any marriage to be blessed and work for the rest of those two peoples lives. I look back to when I accepted to spend the rest of my life with Lucas, it was in the time of getting to know one another that we also got to know how much love comes from the Lord. We knew from the beginning that our lives were meant to have that love from the Lord and knew that He had amazing plans for us! At our wedding our nuptial blessing was this: "My dear friends, let us turn to the Lord and pray that He will bless with His grace this woman Krystle now married in Christ to this man Lucas and that he will unite in love the couple He has joined in this holy bond. Father, by your power you have made everything out of nothing. In the beginning you created the universe and made mankind in your own likeness. You gave man the constant help of woman so that man and woman should no longer be two, but one flesh, and you teach us that what you have united may never be divided...Father, keep them always true to your commandments. Keep them faithful in marriage and let them be living examples of Christian life. Give them the strength which comes from the gospel so that they may be witnesses of Christ to others. Bless them with children and help them to be good parents." There was more to it but to shorten it a bit I only put some main points to make sense with these thoughts. This is a beautiful prayer that I look at often just to remember that we have certain commitments within our marriage to help each other reach our main goal, heaven. I especially look at the part to be blessed with children which we already have been! We try our hardest to be good parents!!
It is amazing how our love as husband and wife can make a new little life!!! Being parents is a life changing experience that has made us more in love with one another!
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