OK, I get moms are busy… it's a full time job, they never get a lunch break, their work follows them home... and so on and so forth.
Now I love all my mommy friends. Someday I hope to have my own family to be able to follow the amazing example so many of them have set out before me... but let me just say this...
Sometimes it gets a little old hearing this from all my mom friends. I realize that being a mom and wife is hard work. I realize those little rascals test your patience. I realize that having a husband can grate on you some days more that make you smile (or at least this is what I've been told by all my married friends). But as a single girl wanting very much to be married and have my own little rascals sometimes, it's very hard to listen to.
I have so many "mommy" friends that tell me they would love to have the single life back again, they miss the freedom... but do they really? Would you really want to give up those adorable little crazies crawling all over you just begging for your attention? You really don't want the husband who yes, leaves his socks in the middle of the living room floor but also pulls you into his arms at the end of the day just because?
So to my mommy friends; Being married and a mother may be hard but please remember that there are some of us single ladies who, while we love to hear about your crazy days and want to encourage in any way we can, it frusterates us to hear about how "mundane" your married life is.
I have to get up and be to work by 8. I'm not home until 5:30 at night. I can't sleep in til 10 if me and kids had a late night the night before (ok so I realize with little ones this is rare, but then me sleeping in is rare too). There is no one waiting on me to get home every day. I still have to do my laundry, I cook meals (cooking for one is not so much fun), I have to clean my house... but I have no husband to do all that for, I have no tiny little socks and shirts to fold along with all my laundry. I know that means I can get away without doing laundry for weeks on end... i can eat a bowl of fruit for supper if I don't feel like cooking... a messy house only bothers me (well, my roomies too)... but sometimes, just once, I'd like someone to do all that for.
I'm not trying to throw myself a pity party, I know God has my life in His control (thanks goodness!) and I know that I am single right now cause that's where God wants me to be, and usually I'm ok with that. But sometimes, I'm just saying. However hard and unrewarding you like to say being a wife and mother is I would just love to be in your shoes somedays...
I have to get up and be to work by 8. I'm not home until 5:30 at night. I can't sleep in til 10 if me and kids had a late night the night before (ok so I realize with little ones this is rare, but then me sleeping in is rare too). There is no one waiting on me to get home every day. I still have to do my laundry, I cook meals (cooking for one is not so much fun), I have to clean my house... but I have no husband to do all that for, I have no tiny little socks and shirts to fold along with all my laundry. I know that means I can get away without doing laundry for weeks on end... i can eat a bowl of fruit for supper if I don't feel like cooking... a messy house only bothers me (well, my roomies too)... but sometimes, just once, I'd like someone to do all that for.
I'm not trying to throw myself a pity party, I know God has my life in His control (thanks goodness!) and I know that I am single right now cause that's where God wants me to be, and usually I'm ok with that. But sometimes, I'm just saying. However hard and unrewarding you like to say being a wife and mother is I would just love to be in your shoes somedays...
on a somewhat related note... this song was sang in church on yesterday. I love the chorus...
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain
Those lines in orange are the ones that really stuck out to me. "Bring me anything that brings you glory". Is that really the prayer of my life? Am I willing to undergo anything (singleness) just to bring Him glory? I pray that I am able to change my attitude and have that heart!
So if you think of me today it would be much appreciated if you would keep me in your prayers (our pastor taught on the importance of prayer yesterday, such an amazing reminder! Even Paul realized he couldn't operate as God wanted him without the prayer of fellow believers).
**I'm trying my bestest to be content but, somedays, being single and having my freedom is a great joy, somedays it's a struggle... today it's a struggle.
So if you think of me today it would be much appreciated if you would keep me in your prayers (our pastor taught on the importance of prayer yesterday, such an amazing reminder! Even Paul realized he couldn't operate as God wanted him without the prayer of fellow believers).
**I'm trying my bestest to be content but, somedays, being single and having my freedom is a great joy, somedays it's a struggle... today it's a struggle.
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