Sunday, April 10, 2011

My thoughts on that article about the blogs

So I am going to try and return to the blogging world....not sure if that will be successful...I am just now catching up to my life...not in cyberspace...
I hear the life a a mormon mommy is pretty and fun and glamourous...
Can I have that life?
I will be 39 this year and mine has never been the way these mormon mommy blogs are described...My life is not a gap commercial-my girls are not always perfectly dressed with perfect hair. My husband is usually in baseball clothes when he gets home from work, and well my son is a walking hollister ad-but that is his doing not mine. My daughter is an athlete who likes ponytails and tennis shoes and dirt. She takes nothing from the mean girls at school and has the sweetest side to her that I love.
My seven year old will be a fashion designer one day-and I love her style and creativity...
And that bear...well we will see.....
Does anyone not like to read-hey my life is normal and kids are normal and when it gets hard-I know I will get through this because someone before me did something just like it....
I can take courage in that....
I am inspired by that...those women I know who work so hard day in and day out to raise their families while their husbands work hard to support them while they are working away from the home a lot. I know it is hard. I know it is exhausting. But the world does not give an praise for that....
There is no break for a woman who stays home and raises kids and her husband is working out of town or long hours...her job NEVER ends.
The housework never ends....Those that have jobs as well-it is even harder. These woman are the ones that hold our society together and are setting an example for the next generation. To not be weak but to be strong and kind hearted all at the same time. It is across all spectrums that I find these woman. So to them I pay tribute today. Life is not always beautiful.... but it is a beautiful ride.....

1 comment:

Kate said...

Love this post. Thanks for posting that and reminding me that it is a beautiful ride :). Hope we can get together in May when you come out this way!