Yep, I am a stay at home mom!

“The ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness … to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, … deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God”
-David O. McKay

Lately I have received many comments/questions about me being a "stay at home" mom. Now, most of these people don't read my blog, but I really just want to let my feelings be known on the subject. While talking with one person they asked, "So you went to nursing school and worked so hard to get that education, and now you aren't working?...That seems like a waste of knowledge..... What do you do all day??" I also frequently get the question,"When are you going back to work?" Some brave soul even dared to say "Well if you actually had a job..." So let me clear it up.

1. Yep, I am a stay at home mom.

2. What could possibly be more important than raising one of God's children??

3. I feel like the most important role we can possibly have as women is to be a mom.

4. What do I do all day? Take care of my precious baby, our home, and my husband.

5. As far as me having a job, I do. My job right now is to raise another human being to live a full and happy life. You try it. It's not easy.

6. I am not going back to work. If I happen to work once a month I will do that when my husband is not at work. I will do that to keep my nursing license because ,yes, I worked my tush off to get it.

7. I have given up my full time nursing career to stay at home, and so that is what I will do. Take care of my baby, and that is honestly a FULL time job. I don't get weekends off.

8. I went to school so that I could have knowledge. Something that is very important for everyone to have. That knowledge will stay with me, and make my life more full. It doesn't disappear because I had a kid.

9. There is nothing in this world I would rather be doing than being there for my little Paxton.

10. A mother is potentially the biggest influence on the lives of her children. Why would I not want to work my butt off to be a great influence??

11. Paxton is my number one priority, and I make no apologies for that.

12. Ben is a wonderful father who has made it possible (by working so very hard) for me to stay at home with Paxton. For that I am so thankful to him.

A family is the most important thing in this world. Ben and I have just started ours, but I guarantee you that I will continue to work on making ours stronger and better. Some people just don't seem to realize how important that is. Now, for any working moms out there, I am definitely not saying you have made the wrong choice. That is up to you and your family. I am simply saying that I have chosen to stay at home with my children in order to be a full time mom, and there is nothing more important to me than that. So there you have it. Stop trying to make me feel bad about that or guilty that I don't get payed for my job, because I won't.

"Cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones....Mothers, we acknowledge and esteem your faith in every footstep. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever....The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you."
-Jeffrey R. Holland

“Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother’s image is the first that stamps itself on the … young child’s mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world”
-David O. McKay