Signs of Fall are popping up everywhere! Beautiful yellow mums and bright orange pumpkins. It inspired me to change over to my Fall blog header. While I was changing the header, I decided to change my blog tagline. It used to read "the life of a working mother & home keeper". But now it says, "celebrating the domestic side of working motherhood." While this blog will most certainly continue to be about my life, I realized that I didn't really blog much about work. Most of my posts are about home because truly that is where my heart is.
Even though I work full-time outside of the home, I'm not a feminist or careerist. Work is just something I do for several hours during the day. I work because my husband feels it is best in this season of our family's life for me to contribute financially {Epshesians 5:24 - ...wives should submit to their husbands in everything}. And because my income will allow us to reach our long-term financial goals sooner, such as becoming mortgage debt-free before our children go to college. But my work doesn't define me. I don't even consider it to be the most important thing I do in my day. I'm good at my job, but I know the world would continue to spin even if I wasn't there doing it!
My focus, my number one priority is my family and my home. Working outside of the home does not change that fact - for me or for any working mother. All the day-to-day work involved in running a home is still up to me. And this is where I hope to celebrate the domestic side of my life!
Mary Ellen
Well put!
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