Dear Daughter,

Today I want to encourage you should you ever become a wife and/ or mother. It’s Friday today, and I get so excited that this is the last day of your Daddy’s work week. He works so hard and diligently for our family, and while I know it’s hard - it’s no easy job for him at home either.

Once he’s home with us (you 4 little ones), I think his job is actually harder! I’m so grateful for all the help he is to me with you all - whether helping clean the kitchen, playing with you so I can get some work done, or helping out with the laundry. Plus, there’s all the stuff that he needs/ wants to do as well.

So my encouragement to you is this - try to get household tasks done BEFORE the weekend begins. This provides a less stressful environment for your husband to come home to. This also allows YOU extra time to be able to focus on him/ spending time with him.

I don’t want your dad to feel as if he’s another one of the children, or that he’s my servant - having to clean this or that. While he is happy to serve others, this is not the role God gave him in our family. This is a role God has given me, for me to be HIS helpmeet - to meet his needs, to encourage him, to make HIS role as the leader of our family easier.

I’ve just started the first of many loads of laundry, and the dishwasher is going. We have been using your responsibility boards to encourage you all to learn tasks around the home as well. I’m not able to do everything by myself, but you and two of your brothers are old enough to begin helping around the house.

I’m trying to teach you a servant’s heart, as well as focusing your eyes on being a helper to your father. I pray that the Lord is able to mold and make me into the wife and mother that He wants me to be, as there are many days that I fall short. I pray this not only for myself - to be honoring to the Lord - but also as an example to you, my dear daughter.

With love,

Mommy

I’d like to just share with you a picture of WHY fulfilling my role in Christ is so important - THIS is the future generation of Christian women, and what I do/ how I live affects how this future is shaped! Not only am I responsible for myself and my actions before God, but I’m responsible for this life for 18+ years to Him too.

This is taken on her 3rd b’day last weekend, and I’m amazed at how ‘growny’ she already is! It’s hard to believe 3 years are gone, only 15+ left to train up a Godly daughter.

What does this involve? Teaching a servant like spirit (we intentionally named her where both of her names relate to being a servant of God), teaching practical skills - cooking, sewing, cleaning, and organization, teaching her feminine character, to have a quiet spirit, a nuturing spirit, modest appearance - allowing others to see God’s spirit in her innocence and purity in ALL aspects of her life.

To my daughter, I love you deeply, and have made many mistakes already. I pray that God would continue to mold and make me into what HE desires me to be - so that I might be a Godly example before you. May He draw you close to Him, and you serve Him with your WHOLE heart all of your days.

I Love You,
Mommy