This is my rant...

     This is my rant.  I know I'll offend some but this is how I feel.  And sometimes my feelings get a little intense during certain times of the month.  There's a little humor!  I'm a passionate person and stand up for how I feel about things.  So during this journey of figuring out the right way to live, my friends have had many different responses.  I appreciate those that will tell me how they really feel  whether we agree or not.  I feel like that's true friendship and I've only got time for true friendships!  Life's too short to spend worrying about what others think of how you do things.  The only person I have to answer to for my actions is God!  After that, I must think about how my actions will affect my husband and my children and no one else.  This is something that my dad would always remind of, worry about those in your teepee first!  It's such an easy concept and so hard to do at times but I'm working on it!  After all aren't we all a work in progress?

     So I started this blog because I quit my job and closed my business and I just wanted to write about how that felt.  I didn't really start writing until my dad died and by that time I'd been home for about a year and added baby boy #4.  I didn't really count this time as beginning my new career, I was having baby and taking care of the other three boys and really just taking some time to regroup.  Then when it became clear that my dad was dying fast it put everything in a new perspective!  I'm so thankful that I wasn't working and that I could be there with him and my mom during that time.  During this "time off" from working I realized just how important it is for me to be at home!  Yes I said that, it's important for me to be at home taking care of my "teepee".  My dad reminded me of how important my job is to be at home to take care of my boys over and over and made me promise to do my best everyday to take care of my family.  I listened carefully and began to realize just how important it is for one parent to be at home with the kiddos.  My dad was at home with me after he was hurt in an oilfield accident when I was young and my mom climbed the corporate ladder.  It was a little out of the ordinary back then but it totally worked for our family.  I've been blessed with two amazing parents as role models and the values they've taught me are priceless!  Through watching and listening to them I realize just how important my job is to be at home.  So why do we let "society" make us think that it's not good enough to be at home taking care of our family?  Why do other women judge us because we've decided to focus on our family?  I just don't understand why we all can't be supportive and encouraging of each other!  I'd like for someone to tell me why it's ok to judge others.  Really, where does it say that we should judge each other in the Bible?  I realize just how much I'm needed at home and everything runs so smooth when a parent is there to take care of whatever rises.  I'm so thankful that I've figured this out before my kiddos are all grown up because I've already missed a lot of time with my older two.  I'm not going to miss out anymore!

     It's very empowering to take care of my family and I feel very lucky to have this opportunity.  With that being said I really miss the boys now that they're at school!  They're so much fun and I just really enjoy spending time with them.  Now here's where my ranting comes in...now that the boys are at school, I'm having to adjust to the rules!  Let me just say that I don't really care for the rules!  I think everyone in my family is already tired of my ranting about this so I thought I'd share the joy.  Why do I have to have a doctor's note to keep my child home from school?  Am I not smart enough to know that my child doesn't feel well?  And do you have to go to the doctor for every little sneeze, cough, throwing up thing that comes along?  Most of the time all they need is a little rest.  How can you rest when you have to go see the doctor and wait in the waiting room?  Most of the time the doctor is over booked and busy, probably because all these kiddos that are just needing to rest have to go to the doctor to get a note just so their absent will be an excused absent!  Really!?!  You've got to be kidding me!  I'm their mother and I have to justify with a piece of paper from a doctor why I've kept my child at home to rest!  Can we say "I will not comply!" according to Glenn Beck!  If you don't listen to Glenn Beck then you're not going to understand, maybe do a little research.  If I understand things properly, the public schools are funded by the government, the government funds the public schools with our tax dollars, so therefore the public schools work for us, the public!  Then why doesn't it feel like that?  This is a whole other post or 2,3,4, or maybe 5- I can go on and on when it comes to things like this!  I know the schools are just doing their jobs but it really ticks me off!  However, I will do my best to follow the rules even though it goes against how I feel.  I don't really know if that's a good thing or not but I do have to keep the peace in my "teepee"!

     Like I said this is my rant and at times it's more intense than others...the joys of being a woman I guess.  So my focus will be on my family and not what others think.  I hope that we can all be supportive and respectful of each other because after all we are not all the same.  And that's what makes this country so great, we are all different.  And of course I will "KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON!"

Trinity