Excuse me,

I’m waving my hand over to the woman who is on her first load of laundry today. Also to the one who has cleaned her house all week and  is currently enjoying a Saturday free of work. (Does that exist?)

Pull up a chair for a minute?

I’m thinking about you today as I make this grocery list and menu for the coming week.  We women are creative with our systems, and the neat thing is they don’t have to be the same to be effective. It’s what works best for our families.

You’re pretty amazing if you didn’t know.

This week you managed to keep an entire home and family running.  It doesn’t matter if you served pizza three nights this week or whipped up delicious, made-from-scratch meals. You’re still inspiring.

I want to write powerful life-changing words but you’re exhausted and i’ll keep it simple…

This year you planned birthday parties, events for the kids, took countless trips to and from their school, and made sure meals were there, laundry was folded, and homework was finished. There was much effort in coordinating all the logistics with the extra curricular activities and how the evenings and weekends would run smooth. You woke up in the middle of the night to clean up after a sick child, and made sure everyone maintained a pleasant attitude in public places. (Well at least you tried!)

Even though we each come from unique homes of our own, can we admit our work is cut out for us?

If we don’t have enough to take on as it is, we also have an enemy that devises plans to destroy us through the well crafted lie that we are insignificant.  How often do we believe it?

If ever there comes a time you feel like it’s all too much and you’re barely hanging on remember this..

In the Lord I take refuge. Psalm 11:1

We’re training up our children, and as my sister-in-law told me this week, that’s a calling placed on our lives by God.  How special that we’re blessed with families.  Even on the hardest days of dealing with behavior issues, I remind myself that this is a gift.

I hope you enjoy your afternoon and if you ever need to be told how awesome you really are, we’ll talk again!

You are valuable, loved, a hard-worker, creative, and one of a kind! What a privileged to know so many of you and admire you over the years.

Until next time,

Laura