Goal 5: Family First

Reach for the moon and even if you fall you'll be amonst the stars...

As a mother of a seven year old who has spent 5 years of his life in daycare I recently had a rare opportunity. Stay home for a while and run the house? At first I was reluctant I thought I would lose my standing as alpha woman of the world or my freedom but something changed when I took a good look around. There was the laundry that had piled up and the dishes that were never clean and my husband who never saw me and my son who was forgetting his medicine or his homework or his reading every night. I had worked so hard towards my own goals that I had missed the ball on my responsibilities as a wife and mother. No! I am not a backwards thinker who believes women belong in the kitchen etc. but I am a realist and what we were doing really wasn't working. So, I decided to stay home and take my son out of day care. In two weeks I have found my groove and noticed some amazing things.

1. My angst ridden 7- year old son who had been acting like a thirteen year old really just needed someone to talk to who wanted to listen.
2. I should have shown my husband more respect he works really hard and I never knew it because I was too busy working really hard and he is absolutely not lazy he just does not have enough hours in the day to do everything. 
3. My son and husband can take time out to have fun if they aren't under so much pressure.
4. When we're not eating out every night my husband and I love cooking together.
5. My son is so smart and talented and he likes most of the same things I do so now that we have the time we can work together on Spanish, Art, and Yoga. We've even started reading Mark Twain.
6. The house isn't going to manage itself, or clean itself just because you are busy sometimes you have to think about more than just you.
7. I really can do anything I put my mind to as long as it has my full attention.