What it is……

A friend of mine shared her list on her blog and I thought it was such a neat thing, and so true of what the world, our family, and God thinks….. here goes my never-ending list… that is probably longer than this list, but this is all I can think of this time in the afternoon!

  • Housework never ending
  • Scrubbing
  • planting a garden
  • Making beds
  • Laundry (never-ending)
  • Dishes
  • Cooking
  • Helping with homework
  • Nurturing
  • Organizing
  • Training children
  • Disciplining children
  • Bathing little ones
  • Wiping noses
  • Nurse to the sicklings
  • Putting on bandaids
  • Preparing after school snacks
  • Playing with my boys
  • Reading to my boys
  • Cleaning
  • Picking up toys
  • getting up in the night for little ones with bad dreams
  • Decluttering
  • Yard work
  • planning fun outings
  • running forgot homework or lunch up to school
  • gathering stuff up for games
  • up in the night for little ones with growing pains or earaches
  • Grocery shopping
  • making sure their comfortable and love coming home!
  • Cleaning up after kitties, chickens, bird
  • Managing the family calendar
  • Planning birthday parties
  • Preparing meals
  • answering questions
  • taking phone calls
  • Planning Awana lessons
  • Rewarding children for chores
  • Making meal plans
  • Checking off to-do lists
  • Helping Brian
  • cleaning out the playpen each day
  • Making lunches each morning
  • Changing batteries
  • Tying shoes, zipping pants, snapping snaps
  • Changing diapers
  • Wiping high chairs down
  • Moping floors & Vacuuming floors
  • Combing hair
  • Cutting hair
  • Playing with action figures
  • Playing the wii
  • Sitting outside to supervise play
  • Wiping bottoms
  • playing catch
  • Hauling diaper bags
  • Cleaning sippy cups
  • sweeping (seems never ending)
  • Getting into sports & learning stuff about it
  • Wiping counters and stove tops
  • Cleaning toilets
  • Teaching manners
  • Stay-at-home-mom
  • Making our home a haven
  • Making memories
WHAT IS THIS……
to me: monotonous and difficult at times
to the world: degrading, meaningless, wasteful
to my family: priceless and loving
to my God: a calling and rewarding

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