Things I would do well to remember

It's time to snap out of this. I wouldn't say that I've been having a pity party, but I certainly haven't been winning any awards for mother/wife/person of the year. It's been too easy to use (insert an excuse of your choosing here) as a valid reason to not do, well, pretty much anything I don't want to do. The excuses are completely valid: I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant and nursing, I have 2 kids 2 & under, I'm tired, I'm nauseous, our house is on the market (the most recent addition), and/or any combination of the aforementioned items.

Two things came to mind today as I was having a (long-overdue) quiet time:

First, my children are not mine. They are God's. He has entrusted them to me for an unknown period of time and He expects me to take care of them. They are/should be my first priority during the day. They are the reason I don't have a "real" job (although I dare anyone who hasn't been a stay-at-home mom to try it for a couple of days...it's more of a real job than anything else I can think of...but I digress :). There are no stipulations in the Bible about only having to do what God says when we feel like it, and I've been letting myself get away with less than my best because of my circumstances right now.

Second, I need to have a goal every day. I think for now, it is going to be to try to be like the Wife of Noble Character in Proverbs 31. I don't know how on earth it's possible to do even half of the things she allegedly did on a daily basis, but dadgum it, if I can just aim at having noble character, I'll be ahead in the ball game.

So now it's all out there on the world wide interwebz...hopefully that'll help motivate me.