A Homegrown Family: M is for....

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

M is for....

Married: and love it. Yes, it can be stressful and hard work, but after 18 years we are still very much best friends and can have a good laugh over anything.

Mom: being a mom is interesting and fun. I do not think I am very good at it, but I do know that this is where I am suppose to be.

These two things complete me, I am Mystified as to why others wait so long to do either, I know sometimes things are beyond their control, or they just don't want to for no reason its just not for them. But those who feel that it will hinder their life, slow them down, or keep them from experiencing life. My marriage has filled so many spots in my life and the kids have enhanced it even more. I wouldn't change any of it. I am looking forward to those years of just hubby and I as the kids grow and leave the nest, but I'm not in any hurry for I love where I'm at in my life and learn daily from my children and husband.

Though I may be mystified that does not mean I judge them, their choices are theirs and mine are mine. It just confuses me.

Marveled: at the world and the gifts around me daily.

Have a lovely day,

Love,

Erika

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AnonymousAugust 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM
I am with you on this one dear friend, I truly know that being married is my calling - just like being a mom!

Thank you for sharing...

Maria
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.