I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Till Sunday...

So I have done a lot of thinking.
I have noticed lately that I have been ignoring my house work,
have not wanted to cook dinner,
the laundry is always in piles on my bedroom floor
and that I have been really short with my children.

All around, I have not been being a very good wife or mother.

And I was wondering about that today.

Why?

Why has it gotten worse in the last month or so?

This is what I've come up with.
I am always on the computer.
Between Facebook and my blog I have little time to spend doing the things that a wife and mother should be doing.

And, do I really want that for my kids?

No.

They deserve my undivided attention.

(aside from doing dishes and laundry)

They deserve for me to be able to play with them because my chores are finished.

And my poor husband deserves a hot meal when he comes home,
and he also deserves a wife that is dressed and has makeup on!

So it is for all of these reasons that I will be blogging on Sunday afternoons only.

I know it will be hard,
I'm not thinking that it won't be,
but I am going to try.

Love you all.
See you Sunday.

(better wait and check for a new post on Monday's, in case it's really late.)

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3 comments:

Elder Larkin said...

Or you could just blog when everyone else is asleep ya know.
No, seriously I'm proud of you for realizing that you needed to blog less if that's what was happening. It can be ver addicting sometimes. See ya on Sunday!

November 12, 2009 at 1:33 PM  
Always, Forever, NO MATTER WHAT said...

Sunday us when I post my blog's. I do check up on eveybody elses through out the week. I am also proud of you if you felt like it was taking over you time. I facebook through out the week and blog on Sunday. That's my schedual. Just make sure you keep posting on your blog. I would miss my girls if you stopped. And you better post about everything that happened throughout the week so we don't miss anything. =) I love you guy's!

November 12, 2009 at 4:52 PM  
kate said...

Everything in moderation.

It's amazing how to much of anything good or bad isn't good for us. I commend you for doing this. I know that I neglect housework. dishes, and just plain conversation with graham when he's home because I'm sucked into the cyber world. {it's the devil I tell ya!!}

Can't wait to see what Sunday brings!

November 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM  

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