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