Work is Work

A few weeks ago my pastor made this comment:

"Work is work, because...its. work.  you don't say, 'I'm going to fun today, Honey'.  You're going to WORK."

I'm a stay-at-home mom and I thought...ouch.  Many times I'm guilty of not wanting to do my wife and mom "work duties"  because I'd rather do what is fun.  As a stay-at-home mom with a large interest in crafts and socializing it's so easy to get caught up in fun projects and let things slide around my home.  

In fact, I've recently been thinking how I need to be careful to make good use of my time during the day; keep my priorities straight, so I'm not staying up late folding laundry because I didn't use my time wisely in the daytime...for one example.  

My husband and children go off to work each day and they stay busy until they come home.  Since I've been given the blessing of being a stay-at-home mom I feel I need to be careful to not use the extra time I have at home frivolously.  I need to make sure to do my "work" as well, even if it is not always fun.  

There's nothing wrong with letting things slide once in a while to complete a project, like the Christmas stockings I'm currently trying to finish for nieces and nephews, but I've recently found things sliding more than a bit and realize it's because I allow too many distractions into my day.  

My children and husband could not get away with allowing distractions to take them from their work and do well at what they do and neither will I. 

So, it's something I'm going to work on.  Believe it or not, I'm actually busier with driving teenage children to and from school, practices and the like so this takes more planning than I'm used to, but I know it can be done.  I just have to stay focused and work.  

"She watches over the affairs of her household

and does not eat the bread of idleness."  Prov. 31:27