I like that picture of you, John! I'm glad that sense carried through; it's just what I felt but I wasn't sure my words captured it when I was typing late last night into my phone, snuggled between sleeping children.
When one is lucky enough to have as amazing a husband and as precious the children that I have been blessed with, it is hard not to be happy. But really, we are so lucky. Personally, I love being a mother, a homemaker as my "job;" I have never felt so fulfilled. And while I can't speak for any other person's innermost heart, Chris seems very happy, and tells me he is as well. Pretty much any obstacle, we approach together, and that takes the terror away from most things. Furthermore, I've always believed that manual work is good for us, as a species - that's part of the longing for "simpler times," I think. There is nothing so good for our psyche as walking away from a job we can see we've done, whether it's washing diapers, raising a barn, mowing a lawn, etc. And doing it together with others makes it richer, triggers that sense deep inside us that this is how things are supposed to be... at least that's my opinion. ;-)
When one is lucky enough to have as amazing a husband and as precious the children that I have been blessed with, it is hard not to be happy. But really, we are so lucky. Personally, I love being a mother, a homemaker as my "job;" I have never felt so fulfilled. And while I can't speak for any other person's innermost heart, Chris seems very happy, and tells me he is as well. Pretty much any obstacle, we approach together, and that takes the terror away from most things. Furthermore, I've always believed that manual work is good for us, as a species - that's part of the longing for "simpler times," I think. There is nothing so good for our psyche as walking away from a job we can see we've done, whether it's washing diapers, raising a barn, mowing a lawn, etc. And doing it together with others makes it richer, triggers that sense deep inside us that this is how things are supposed to be... at least that's my opinion. ;-)
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