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This is a re-post from the archives. This was originally posted last April (2012), but I wanted to share it again, in honor of May being the month that we celebrate mothers and all they do!
{Moments from a day in my life…}
{Helping my husband work on the lawnmower. }
{Rosemary Chicken with rosemary from my herb garden.}
{The chocolate sheet cake in the background was made by my daughter to take to a gathering. She did a great job, and I’m so proud of her!}
Mothers have such an important job! We love our husbands and children, cook, clean, bandage cuts and bruises, read stories, nurse babies, and many of us homeschool in addition to all that. It is such a high calling, but sometimes it’s so easy to feel discouraged and weary. Blessings to all the mothers who might read this! Keep going, your family needs you! (If you’re reading this and you’re not a mother, you still have a high calling to do whatever it is He has called you to do. May you be blessed as you do His will!)
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…”
~Ecclesiastes 9:10
“She…willingly works with her hands.”
~Proverbs 31:13
“Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
~Proverbs 31:31
I'm just an eighteen year old big sister to five, but I enjoy all your posts and am storing away bits of knowledge for later.
All these pictures are so lovely they made me smile. 🙂 I really like how you did your table…especially using the jars for glasses. 😉
Behind the photographs are lines of poetry – a beautiful description of how mothers look after things with their hands. I must tell my friend (who rarely visits blogs & and must borrow her son's lap-top) to pop by here.
More than once in my mothering career I had hurt my wrists gardening or a thumb accidentally. How helpless I felt wrapped in Ace bandage with all the many jobs that awaited doing. By delegating we got by until Mama healed. I thank God for the use of my hands.
Thank you for this touching post.
Karen A.
A beautiful, encouraging post Joy!
Blessings,
Kim
Very lovely post Joy…so true!
so simple, so beautiful, so inspiring for this rainy day! Thank you, and have a wonderful day!
my goodnes…
this is one of the most beautiful post!
simple and so true!
your photographer did a fine job of capturing the everday moments in mamas life:)
Such a beautiful post. Thank you for sharing.
Today is my 39th birthday its 5:30 am i just finished devotions with hubby and saw him off. I woke up feeling nauseous and discouraged until i read your post. A word fitly spoken how sweet it is!! Praise the Lord for tbis bit of encouragement. Yes being a mom and homeschooling gets weary sometimes but we have a God who knows our struggles and who cares. Be blessed
Wonderful words to start my day! And that table is beautiful!
I love these photos (the chicken looks delish), I am new to working at home and have so far been blessed with 4 amazing years at home with my children (aged 4 and 1)…It took a while to get into it and even though I have tough days, I wouldn't change it for anything. There is nothing mundane about being a homemaker…your life is what you make it! x Shara