Singing a Housewife's Praises

I'm a stay at home mom. I have a two year old, Cali Isabella and a baby boy due July 22nd.

I do a lot of cleaning. Some people wonder what the heck stay-at-home moms do all day.  Well, other than preparing tasty meals, getting them down 2-year- old throats, cleaning up the mess they leave behind, doing the dishes, making grocery lists, changing diapers, scraping poop out of the training potty, changing peed-on bed sheets, doing a few loads of laundry, paying bills, managing the budget, keeping the kids happy, keeping the husband happy (need I mention more here?)....   we don't do much. 

Oh- and if we're lucky, we get in the shower.  And if we are even MORE lucky, we can apply some makeup and fix our hair.

After a long day, I would love Dave to come home and say, "WOW, babe! This place looks amazing. This is the BEST meal I've ever had.  WAY TO GO! You deserve a night out.  Here's $100 to go out to eat with a friend and go buy a new outfit - shoes, accessories and everything."

Not sure if $100 would cover it...  but you get the point.

And then I read Luke 17:7-10.

 ⁷"Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? ⁸Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink'? ⁹Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? ¹⁰So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' "

It reminded me that I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do.

I do enjoy an evening out or some quality "me time." But my motivation should not be "because I deserve it."

I'll sing a housewife's praises; not because she deserves it, but because she does it knowing she is serving the One who created her to do it.  And it couldn't make her happier...