*Just A Housewife*

I remember years ago, I was at a dinner party for my husbands work---there were about a hundred round tables and at each table their were about 6 or 7 couples to a table. We all started chatting and the women were all asking each other what they did. They were all talking about their jobs--and what they did and what it entailed--they were all dressed in tailored suits -----I was wearing a simple but pretty dress--and then the question came to me--I said, Oh, I am just a housewife. That was all that was said about that, that evening. After I said that though, I kept thinking, why did I say that? Why did I make it sound that what I did was not important?

I may be a housewife, but it is so much more then that---The definition of a housewife is so much more complicated and far more important then any job any woman could have outside the home.

When I was in school, I always wanted to get married and have children--it was not until I started having children, did I realize how much of a gift they are and how I wanted a hundred of them. While I was in school I also wanted to be a Doctor--oh, how I loved medicine and science --And all that interesting stuff--I wanted to work in a hospital and help people--things did not go as planned. I did for awhile go on to college and take courses to become a nurse, and when my children are grown, I just may continue on and finish my nursing--what I am saying or trying to say is, I truly believe there is a season for everything---and right now--I have young children and they need me home with them--not out in a high paying career where I barely see them. My husband works hard and he needs hot meals at night, a nice home to come home too--granted if I were to work we would not be so stressed for money at times--but we are doing this for our children--it would absolutely break my heart to hand my baby over to daycare--no one can take care of him the way I can--No One!! No one can kiss those tears away when he hurts him self--no one understands his cue for hunger or thirst--no one can hold my baby and gently nurse him and have him drift off to sleep--there are no propping up bottles here to have my baby go to sleep.

My Husband and Children are my life--and like I always say, there is nothing more satisfying then what I am already doing--and I thank God everyday for being able to do what I do.

So there is no more saying *I am just a housewife*---I say proudly, I am a wife and mother and would not have it any other way!!!

Happy Saturday!