Just a Mom?

What is happening to the American family?
Why is raising children seen as just a past time?

I was reading an article, where the person being interviewed said that growing up, her mother was a stay at home mom.  And a good one at that.
Yet when she reached adulthood, she looked at her mom, and said,

Pause.

I had to read that a few times to really believe what  I was reading.

“What did she DO with her life?”
{For starters- she raised you.}

She fulfilled the job that motherhood calls us to do.

Raise our children.

Wholeheartedly.

Now, I don’t usually get involved in debates about stay at home moms.  I understand some have to work for financial reasons. I am not judging anyone who works.

But my problem with this article was that it made it sound like this poor mom wasted her life being a stay at home mom.

And this is where I wonder what has become of the American family.  
To now see that raising children is a waste of a life.

Raising children has become a past time in our society.  We “have” babies.  We get all the cute “stuff” that goes along with having them.  It’s like they are an accessory.

Then if we actually choose to be a stay at home mother, wife and homemaker, we are wasting our life.
Raising the future generation is pretty important!

The sad reality is, if I were to have my babies, then pay someone to watch them all day, while I went off to work…that seems to some to be success. 

Yet, I have chosen to embrace the blessings God has bestowed on me  and raise them- pour my life into them.

Being a mom to me is the ultimate success.
I work my hardest everyday to raise my children, homeschool them, and nurture them.  I enjoy being with them and teaching them.

There are big sacrifices on being home, especially financially.

While I don’t have a salary, or a bunch of letters after my name, I know in God’s eyes I am successful…
and I will continue to “just be a mom…”