It’s been 40 years since I left the workforce to come home full time. While I was growing up, the workforce never appealed to me but everyone told me that it was where I belonged, so I went. I didn’t like it at all. I was a waitress in the summer then a school teacher during the school year. I was continually exhausted. Before marriage, I struggled with my weight and overeating. Once married, I no longer did. It seems marriage filled the void I was longing for. Plus, I wanted to stay in shape for my husband. It’s as if we were created to be a help meet to our husband!

Some say that once the children are raised, we should go back into the workforce. It’s the LAST place I wanted to go! I love being home. I love knowing that if I have a difficult night trying to sleep, I don’t have the stress of the workforce to face. I can go at a leisurely pace, and do what I am able. I can mentor many women online, write new material, respond to comments, and answer emails. I can take a long walk outside in the fresh air and sunshine. I can eat meals when I want. I can read my Bible and listen to sermons. I can cook healthy meals from scratch for my husband and clean the home. I can make sure everything is being watered properly in the yard. I can care for my grandchildren whenever my children ask me if I can help them.

In a little while, my grandson will be here. I made a big pot of chili for my husband and him to eat tonight. The recipe is in my cookbook “The Transformed Kitchen.” They will pour it over rice that I am cooking. He has a baseball practice at the park down the street from us, and his parents are going out to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary! My son’s other children are at home with their other grandma. My grandson will spend the night after practice.

Tomorrow, I am taking him along with a cousin and his siblings out to lunch and for some ice cream. I love doing this for their birthdays! I also love watching him play baseball just as I loved watching my sons play. These are some of my favorite memories! Here’s a picture of my friends and me after a huge basketball win in the playoffs when my youngest son ended up going to the CA state championship game in Sacramento! (We’re the moms of the players, as if you couldn’t tell!)

There are so many advantages to being home, women, as most of you who are reading this know. I have learned to enjoy the simple life at home with contentment. I only go shopping for food. I have never enjoyed shopping for clothes. Fashion has never been important to me. I no longer wear any jewelry. I don’t paint my nails. I wear a little bit of makeup and dye and cut my own hair. The only thing I spend money on now is food, supplements, and gifts for my grandchildren!

Life is so loud and chaotic. It’s such a blessing to work quietly in our homes with our hands and enjoy loving and serving our family and those around us. Everything God commands of us is for our good. It’s easy for me to say this now since I’ve been living them for 40 years now. God is good, and His ways are good! Trust and obey Him.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
1 Thessalonians 4:11

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