I will never be...

I will never be the person who has the most immaculately clean home. I have five in house servants in training who I am currently in the process of "teaching" how to clean a house and it takes every ounce of will power not to come along behind them and "redo" it.

  I will never be the person who has matching pictures, furniture, carpet, nor home decor.  I have children who break lamps, barf on couches, destroy pillows, leave hand prints all over walls, spill juice on carpet, scratch wood floors, stab the kitchen table with their forks and try to see just how far they can pull the blind strings.

 I will never be the person who has a perfect wardrobe with a perfect outfit to wear with every event whether glamorous or boring.  I have 2 pairs of jeans I wear constantly, no shorts (minus the painted on ones from last years paint fest), a handful of random tops, and a mickey mouse jacket that I have worn to the bone. I do have a shoe fetish, but never actually buy the shoes I have a fetish for, so it's tennis shoes or slip ons for this gal.
 I will never be the mom who gives her children everything they desire.  I believe no should be said far more than yes because we have to teach our children that life is not fair and the sooner they learn it, the better they will be.

I will not be the mom who caves in and buys a phone for my 5th grader, or my 4th grader, or my 2nd grader, or my kindergartner for that matter.  Where on earth will my almost 11 year be that I won't?  I have yet to have anyone give me a LOGICAL explanation for that one.  My children will learn the good old fashion way of getting in touch with us.  A thing called a LAND LINE.  And quite frankly if they go somewhere there is no phone, they have no business being there.

I will never be the woman who signs up to "chair" all the parties, PTO president, volunteer of the year at school.   There are plenty of moms out there that God created for just those positions...

I will never have a beautiful dining room set with a gorgeous china cabinet and hutch to display my awesome china (which I now have unpacked at least in the cupboards in the kitchen).  I'm fairly certain my dining room will always be either empty, or full of baby stuff, and maybe one day if I'm lucky and I strike gold at a garage sale, I can find a really nice fairly unabused dining room table.  I'm going to be cautiously optimistic!

I will however, be the person who invites people over for dinner, regardless how badly I need to paint, replace the couch, buy new pillows, get the carpet cleaned, and probably save up for a new chair.

I will be the person who tells friends it's ok if their baby pukes on my couch, spills their juice, bangs on the table and tries to rip the blinds down, because hey-I've been there and done that and I know what they're going through!

 I will be the person who gives a stranger the coat off my back, or hears about someone needing some article of clothing, or some baby item, or some piece of furniture and if I don't have it, I'll go buy it for them, because that's what we're called to do.

I will be the person who gives my children unlimited access to me, my hugs, my kisses and my advice on anything they need help with.  I will encourage them to be good citizens, be Christ like in all they do, and always help a friend (or maybe a kid they see in trouble) in need.

I will be the person who tells my children they have sooooo much more to look forward to in life since I am not buying them every new trend or phase that pops up at Toys R Us, or digital "toy" that quite frankly if I survived without, they surely will.  What great dreams they can plan and scheme as they earn their own money to buy that ridiculous item... (I won't tell them it's ridiculous, my own mother never told what a fool I was to spend my first paycheck from Baskin and Robbins on a 94.00 Liz Claiborne purse, because she taught me that if that's what I'm going to waste my money on, then I have to take responsibility for not having the money for the things I NEEDED.  A lesson I still value to this day.)

I will never be the person who comments on a family's size, whether they have one child, three children, or 10 children.  God calls each of us differently and opens our hearts at different times. 
I hope you are the person who smiles at others today, laughs with your family, brings someone hope, and prays daily for God's will to be done in your life.
God bless you today and always...