I know you started working but I've been missing you! Being a working mom is hard I know! You're in my thoughts and prayers! Couldn't find your email to save my life!
Oh, it's so wonderful to be missed & thought about. I've been going nonstop lately. I've tried to at least read everyone's posts, but I've failed at that the last couple of weeks. I've just now "popped" in & have to go back & work.
B/w work, home, church, & my 9 yr old ds's football practice, I have absolutely no time. Work is going ok, but it's definitely not my lifelong career goal, & no where near my passion. I'm doing my best to be content, but at times it is soooo hard. I really miss being at home w/ Hannah, being able to clean my house, etc.
Thanks for your thoughts & prayers. Maybe I'll be able to get online at home tonight.
And yes, I've realized what a support system you all are for me. I've missed you ladies bunches.
Let's not talk about houses needed cleaning because my home is in serious neglect! This whole wife, working mom, pastor thing is a plateful. If something goes lacking its usually the house. I wanna be home too. I'm really praying that God provide a way of escape. I've been home on one income before and don't wanna do that again. We'd need abundance, overflow, all that good stuff...before being a stay at home mom again.
And it's real hard now that the kids are in school. The oldest is in drama and needs to be picked up at weird times. We get home so late in the evenings...by the time we eat dinner, it's time to go to bed. My little one wants to play afterschool team sports but there's no way since he would never make practice.
Mommy works an hour a way and dad frequently has to work late.
Don't get me wrong, being a stay-at-home wife, mom pastor is hard work too! But this working outside the home really bites.
Thank God for the job though because we supplement a lot of the church's expenses right now since we are so small. One day Lord.
Send Judah said, "Let's not talk about houses needed cleaning because my home is in serious neglect! This whole wife, working mom, pastor thing is a plateful."
I sat here nodding in agreement...then, as I read on, I remembered those busy days when I'd rush home from work to take one child to wrestling practice, and another to choir. At some point, I needed to prepare for Wed. night's service and DH would be home before the rest of us made it home. How did I ever have time for all those schedules?
Today, I cherish memories of children and the excitement they brought into my life. Only two of us reside in our little cottage. Church work (read that ministry) still takes a huge chunk of our time, but once in a while, I have time to sit and watch the sunrise or get a pedicure.
However, that mention of a neglected house hit me somewhere right in the middle. I promise to pick up the Evangels that have gathered on the coffee table, put away the Sunday school lesson material and get down to only ONE stack of papers on my desk.
