disclaimer: this is written to stay at home mothers, not career women.
Dear young mother,
Don't let your kids biggest memories of growing up be of riding in the car to this activity and that activity, this adventure and that adventure. Kids biggest memories of growing up should center around their own backyard.
No wonder the current generation of mothers is so concerned about car seats and what not! Their kids spend endless hours strapped into them being carted all over God's green earth!
Stay home! That's what kids want to do! Make your adventures happen at home and make memories at home!
Stay home! You are paying lots of money to own a home. Live in it, love it, embrace it, and create it!!
When all of the fun times and adventures happen away from the home, then kids will be bored at home.
Stay home! Build forts, set up a pool & sprinkler, make cookies, do crafts, etc. And in those quiet moments when the kids are occupied in some imaginative adventure then you should.............
Get to work! Get your housework done in bits and pieces, but get it done! Dishes, laundry, wiping down, sweeping up, do it daily then it won't build up. Cook big and less often. Make a menu and shop once a week then stay out of the stores! Spend less money that way!
A husband who works all day deserves to come home to a restful and tidy home and a meal already prepared. This is not 1950's nostalgia, it is still 2016 reality.
You are young, you can do it!!! you have it in you!!! I have faith that you can do it! If you get your days into a rhythm there will be harmony.
Kids do not want to be dragged around and neither do husbands. They want their home to be their sanctuary and it is your calling in life to make it just that.
Yours truly,
Old mother
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