Just a Mommy

Sometimes I feel like I have not accomplished very much in a day. Sometimes I look back over the day, my to-do list and my pile of laundry and wonder what became of the day that I was given.
Then I hear the giggles and see the smiling Oreo covered cookie faces of our two Little Sprouts and I immediately know what became of my day.  Building Mega Block towers, making new Thomas the Train track routes, pretending to be Shere Khan from the “Jungle Books” movie, playing hide and seek, answering endless questions reading Clifford the Big Red Dog for the umpteenth time and cuddling B-man with a bottle while he pokes at my face and pulls out my earring!  Then I smile too! I smile at the sweet blessings that I’ve been given and the fun that fills my day.

The cleaning an scrubbing can wait till tomorrow.

But children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!

I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

- Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

Just a Mommy - I think not!  If you have been blessed to be a Mommy to little, or grown children, you will know that it is come of the highest and most rewarding careers that you as a Mommy can have.  It may seem boring at times and you may not feel recognized by others who seems to have career success, but let me assure you, being “Just” a Mommy is very rewarding.
Rewarding in the fact that is it amazing to see the new things that they learn each day, the way they want to be close to you, listen to you read stories, give them kisses, the way they humble you and remind you that you are not prefect and are needing forgiveness as well, the way they smile and call you Mommy, and the fact that you are raising a child entrusted to you by our Heavenly Father!  It is also rewarding to be able to serve your husband and your children.  What a great blessing it is at be a stay at home Mommy!

So, next time someone asks me what I do for a job, I’m going to smile and say with pride, “I’m a Mommy, which is the most amazing and rewarding career ever!”.