Choosing to be a "STAY AT HOME MOM"

I am in a new phase of my life, my children are raised and are raising children of their own. I get to enjoy my grandchildren often and it brings back wonderful memories from when I chose to be a stay at home Mom. This was my chosen vocation, and believe me, it was one of the most challenging fields I could have chosen. I learned more from my vocation than most people do working outside of the home. Over the years, I have received a lot of criticism for choosing to stay at home to raise my children. Some comments were: - You must feel so unfulfilled! - How can you stand to be with your children so long? - It is a brainless job, but somebody's got to do it. - What will you ever do with yourself, when your children are raised and you won't have a job anymore let alone job skills? - So... what do you do for your job? When I tell them I chose to be a stay at home mom, I was then asked again, but what do you do for your real job? As you can imagine, especially those of you who have chosen to be that stay at home mom, and raise your own children, some of these questions were really criticism from people who couldn't possibly understand just how fulfilling being a full time parent could be. I get to be there when they loose their first teeth, or say their first words, and it isn't told to me later by the day care professional or the nanny. I get to be there to make their science fair project volcano errupt, dress my dautgher and do her hair for her first date, and the list goes on and on. What a privlege it is for me to say that for 26+years, I was a stay at home mom, and was blessed by every minute I spent with my children. Yes there were hard times, and sad times, and good times, and bad times, but that is just real life. My children are more precious to me than a job outside of the home, and as I think about it, if I had put all my kids in day care and after school programs so I could work outside of the home, I would not have made a penny, and wouldn't have been an active part of my childrens lives. I have a feeling that my comments are going to make a few people angry at me, but once again as I said in my welcome, I have the right to speak my mind. After all these years of smiling when people made unfeeling and rude comments about my chosen vocation, it is now my time to speak and show the world, that my chosen vocation was the best education I could ever have been given, and it was done right inside the confines of my own home. I learned along the way, skills that I had never even thought about, and developed talents that would have remained hidden, if I had not been given the opportunity to use them. In time, I will share some stories with you. I hope that all of you stay at home Mothers will realize that your sacrifice for your children is worth more than the fortunes that this world has to offer, because the jewels that you wear in your Mommy crown, will grow and sparkle even brighter every minute you spend with your children. Blessed be the names of stay at home mommies, and blessed be the names of those hard working husbands and fathers, who sacrifice themselves in a huge way, so their wife can be at home and raise his children! Stay tuned, there is more to come. Enjoy, Katie G

Welcome to my new blog!

I am so excited about this new blog. I wanted to be able to write and share my ideas on a wide variety of subjects, and not exclusively on the subjects of my other wonderful blogs. This blog is different, and it is pretty much a form of expression, as well as exercising my FREEDOM OF SPEECH. This is one of the wonderful privleges that I embrace and hope will never be taken from me. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that I have the right to receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds,and my media of choice will be through this blog. The ideas I share on this blog are my own, but I think you will enjoy what I have to say and how I express it. Come back often, as I fully intend to write whatever is in my mind and heart on any given day. If you would like to see the other things I have written, or designed, please go to my blogs: http://printablesbykatie.blogspot.com (A work in progress) http://visitingteachingtips.blogspot.com http://visitingteachingsurprise.blogspot.com http://ldsyoungwomentips.blogspot.com Believe it or not, I have other blogs, but these are the ones that I spend the most time maintaining. I am excited to announce that my first book will be published in 2013, and my publisher is working feverishly on it as I write. I also wanted to let you know that I am a writer for Deseret Digital Media, and more specifically for the Family.how site that will be launched in October 2012. It is coming up, and I have already submitted several interesting articles and stories that I believe will impact many of you. I can't say anymore, but I will be sure to publish the website, and all the information so that you can follow me there as well. Enjoy! Katie G