New blog, and the simplier life.

I have changed the look and layout of my blog, making it more pleasing to the eye. I have decided also to change the content of my blog somewhat. I will be adding stories of my childhood, the childhood of my children, and also some "thought provoking" blogs from time to time. A special thanks to my friend Sarah Marlin for being my inspiration without her even knowing it! She reminds me to focus on what's important; my husband, my children, & my blessings. Thanks Sarah and Happy Anniversary! Follow her blog, jumping jax, and I know you'll be inspired. She's in my list of whom I'm following.

I had a tea party with my girls on Tuesday. We made little round sandwiches, hot tea, cookies, the works, and other than a little spilled tea, a cranky two year old, and some BROWN cookies, it was fantastic, all ten minutes.!Then Madeline(the 7 year old) and I, sat down and watched my favorite movie based, off my favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. I like the simplicity of that time. There wasn't a lot of STUFF to complicate life. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone and I wouldn't be blogging without my computer, however, I think we(me) tend to complicate life with all the STUFF we put in it. The time of Jane Austin was very different from now in that, women were basically only allowed to marry and have children, they weren't allowed to make money and money and houses weren't passed to them. But, the home lives were very simple. They did things like, make quilts, have knitting circles, and make house calls for tea with friends and spend time talking on porches and verandas. You know talking, that's when you put down the twitter, Facebook, texting, and phone, to talk ONE ON ONE with a PERSON. Sometimes, I think we have forgotten to turn down the noise and refocus on people. You don't have to live in Jane Austin's time to appreciate that. Happy Thursday friends. Come back often.

My Mondays

This was a busy summer at the Comer house. I am in recovery mode. I don't know about you all, but I don't feel like I really was able to enjoy summer. It was so crazy busy that I barely remember moving from May to July. I'm glad we don't start school till September, maybe we can grasp at a little peace before school starts. How are your Mondays? I personally, used to hate Mondays with a passion. Troy has all his meetings at church on Mondays. He has like four or five meetings on Monday and he doesn't get home till around 8:30 or 9. I hated it, because I was on burnt out mode by the time he got home and inevitably after a whole day by myself with kids I was ready to scream and some catastrophe had taken place. Not now though. Mind you, I have my weeks when Mondays are such a dread, but not very often. I came to realize that it's like anything else, I can get used to it and get over it, or make every one's life miserable. I choose to get over it. Now, I enjoy Mondays. I'm giving away some of my secrets here, but on Mondays, I don't clean other than laundry and feeding and playing with the kids till Mollie's afternoon nap. I enjoy the morning time and relax. This sets a great precedence for the week for me. I don't feel like it has to be spotless before lunch this way and I can recover from our crazy weekend schedules. I put more into Tuesdays and so on. I want it clean by Friday when Troy is off, so we can relax a little or do other small jobs and not focus on clutter. Today, I have fed the kids, made them clean their rooms, and made our lists for school supply shopping tonight. I'm gonna lay Mollie down and clean up, then tonight we're going to buy school supplies. Sounds exciting to me and the kids! This will be our first year to home school and we are all very excited. Crayons, pencils, and paper, have never been more exciting to buy. I can't wait to get started. I pray it's always this way, however I know we will have days when we don't want to do school, we all have those days, but we will plow through. God is good and has given us many blessings, this being one of them. God bless and happy Monday friends!

My worth in gold is nothing to my worth in love

Proverbs 22:6, Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Someone recently said to me, "So, Robbie, you stay home for a living?" I chuckled a little then looked at him (of course) and said back, "If by staying home for a living you mean not working outside the home, then yes, I 'stay home' for a living."
I also had a friend a while back say to me she wished she could stay home with her children everyday. I assured her it could be done with a little sacrifice on her and her husbands part. A well meaning friend who was listening said to us, "You can't do that! What and waste your degree sitting at home everyday?! You'd go crazy!" Trying to keep myself in check (not an easy task), I replied, "So it's okay for me to be a "stay at home Mom" because I do not have a degree, but not her because she has one?" The logic was lost on me. I have several women I know with varying degrees that stay home with their children, is it such a waste? Who says that a piece of paper on your wall and a steady paycheck replaces the joy of spending each day watching your little ones grow? Where did we go wrong as a society to make women think they must work to have meaning or to make ends meet? I have worked many jobs and placed my children in the care of wonderful, kind, loving people, and then cried all the way to work assuring myself I was doing the right thing. They were wonderful people who loved my children, but they weren't me.
Back to the gentleman who said to me, you "stay home for a living". He told me, "Well some of us have to work for a living." I then very sweetly responded back, "Well if you were to take all that I do within my household and calculate it into dollars and cents, you couldn't afford me." He then laughed and said he'd never thought of it that way.
I'm sure, no positive, that the debate will live on forever between mothers who stay home and mothers who work. I would never criticise a mother who works, she is doing what she feels she must to make ends meet or because she is a single mother.
I may not make a monetary contribution to my household, but Troy and I have made many sacrifices through the years so that I can be with our children, and now that I'm going to home school we will continue to make the needed sacrifices to fulfill our scriptural duty to our family. I cannot listen to those who would neigh say or criticise what we do or the decisions we have made. I can only listen to my heavenly Father and obey the commands He has for my life. Have a great day friends.

Titus 2:4-5, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, and to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.