Motherhood

Life is crazy.....I've been trying harder to be a more patient mother. I don't know if I ever will get there......but as my sister always says "what makes you a good mom is that you keep on trying to be better!" ( love ya cams!) I recently read a quote by Thomas S. Monson that said we should use all avenues of our ability to share our testimony of the Savior and the the Plan of Salvation..he included BLOGS! So here is my favorite quote of the week.

Sister Hinckley has said this about motherhood:

“It is the mothers of young children I would like to address first. These are golden years for you. These are years when you will probably do the most important work of your lives. Don’t wish away your years of caring for small children. Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. This is a time of great opportunity for you to build the kingdom. When you teach children to love their Heavenly Father, you have done one of the greatest things you will ever do. If you can be a full-time homemaker, be grateful. If not, you must do what is best for you. I for one have never felt a need to apologize for my role as a full-time homemaker.

“These are busy, busy days for you. I have seen women in all kinds of circumstances—Chinese women working on road repairs, European women working in the fields, Asian women sweeping streets—but it is my opinion that … Mormon women are among the hardest working women in the world. They plant gardens and they bottle the produce; they sew and bargain shop. They go on the heart fund drive. They take dinners to new mothers and the sick in their neighborhoods. They take care of aged parents. They climb Mount Timpanogos with Cub Scouts, go to Little League games, sit on the piano bench while Jennie practices, do temple work, and worry about getting their journals up-to-date. My heart bursts with pride when I see them come into church on Sunday, some as early as 8:30 in the morning, their children all clean and shiny, their arms loaded with supplies, as they head for classes where they teach other women’s children. They scrub their houses with little or no domestic help and then try to be the glamour girl in their husband’s life when he arrives home at night. But remember, my dear young friends, that you are now doing the work that God intended you to do. Be grateful for the opportunity” (“Building the Kingdom from a Firm Foundation,” in Mary E. Stovall and Carol Cornwall Madsen, eds., As Women of Faith: Talks Selected from the BYU Women’s Conferences, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1989, p. 5).

Motherhood is the noblest and greatest of all callings.

It has always bothered me that people in our society seem to think that mormon women are forced to be stay at home moms. And that we are forced to have a million kids! I feel like I should stand a little taller and shout a little louder that this is not only my CHOICE....but my greatest joy and my greatest calling in this life.

Thank you to all of you out there for your amazing examples to me of what a good mother is and what I can become. I love you all!