It has probably been 15 years ago now, but I remember reading a book by Mary Hood called, The Relaxed Homeschool. Mary Hood is a leader in the homeschooling movement who had her doctorate in education and decided to come home to school her children.
I was reading her book one day and came across this thought: As a homeschooling mom, do your children really know who you are?
That statement really jumped off the page at me that day. You see, I had been so busy giving my life to my children and trying to learn everything I could about schooling them, that I forgot to let them see who I was.
The first thought I remember thinking was, “I say I’m a quilter, but my children haven’t seen me quilt anything in several years.” Guess what I started doing again?
Yep. I started quilting again. I took a class on machine quilting and made some beautiful quilts, too. I even surprised my husband with a king-sized log cabin quilt the first Christmas we were in our new home–a log house!
Now I’m in a different season of my life and my two youngest children don’t remember much about my quilting. Instead, they classify me as an author and teacher. That’s pretty good, considering that’s what I do a lot of the time now.
- So, who are you, really?
- What talents and gifts did God give you that have been on the back burner for awhile?
- If you asked your children what Mommy likes to do, could they tell you?
- If they don’t know, what do you want them to know about you at this stage of your life?
I think like so many other things in life, we can get so busy that we forget to gift our children with the knowledge of who we are. We need to let them know how God created us and what we believe He wants us to do with our lives.
Aside from loving our husband and our children, what do you love to do?
And once you’ve figured out what it is, be sure the rest of your family discovers it, too. 
Originally posted 2009-01-31 00:25:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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