Comments on: The Boring Status of Motherhood https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/ Movement, Color, Sound, Story Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Lucinda J https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7959 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:00:42 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7959 In reply to latoyasamanthasmith.

Yes! I get it.

]]> By: latoyasamanthasmith https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7958 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:32:38 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7958 Wfh mom here. This post resonates with me, because all I want to do is be with my kiddos. After years of college, and work experience-it has all boiled down to baking cookies, and playing Lego.

]]> By: Ginger https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7949 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:10:52 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7949 As a mother with a day job, I appreciate this post. My child is first and foremost on my mind. His care and upbringing and learning about his Savior is always first and foremost.
As a mother who couldn’t have a child till 41, I understand Hannah and the tears .
Well said

]]> By: Lucinda J https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7948 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:54:17 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7948 In reply to Lise C.

I understand what you feel because I remember longing for children too, when I was single.

]]> By: Lise C https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7947 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:50:41 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7947 Yes. Yes. I’m single and trying to figure out what it means to mourn not having a biological child. I know there are plenty of children to love (I have 15 spread between 3,000 miles). Nevertheless, God made made women to bear children. How does a single woman grieve this loss in a conservative setting?

]]> By: Ruth Christner https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7946 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:16:50 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7946 And sometimes that’s all you want to do, but you want to feed them too, so you do the best you can! Somehow with being a nurse and working off shifts and weekends our kids were scarcely in day care or with a sitter (because a dad is a parent too) and you make it work!

]]> By: Rachel https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7945 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:18:55 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7945 AND THEN SHE REALIZED SHE WAS REPLACEABLE IN EVERY
AREA OF HER LIFE EXCEPT HER HOME. SO SHE INVESTED HER TIME, HER ENERGY, AND HER HEART WISELY.
JILLIAN BENFIELD

«The homemaker has the ultimate career.
All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career,
C.S. Lewis

“The mother who is faithful in the home honors God just as truly and fully as the
most self -sacrificing missionary.
~Arthur W. Pink

]]> By: Brendan Armitage https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7944 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:04:04 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7944 On your address, you left out that you live in MD. We locals know that Oakland is in MD, but the postal folks around the country may think you’re MB (Mennonite Brethren) out in California or something. :)

We had a miscarriage when we first started to try and become parents. I recall the grief my wife had when we found out. She was so distraught saying, “I have so much to give!”. In the end, we had 3 sons (and we no longer feel the energy of our youth). But there is something so fundamentally important to raising children. We parents know a different life than those who are not blessed with children. I have several friends who chose to never have kids. They intellectually see some of the work that goes into being parents, but they’ll never understand.

I’m not trying to be hurtful, as many wish to be parents and just are not so blessed, but it’s a fundamental alteration in life path, to be or to not be a parent. There’s no sugar-coating it.

]]> By: Earl Fairhurst https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7943 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:19:38 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7943 A wonderful message. May God Bless
you and your family.

]]> By: authoramandafarmer https://lucindajkinsinger.com/the-boring-status-of-motherhood/#comment-7942 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:18:28 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=21070#comment-7942 The love that a child in invokes in a mother is not surpassed by anything else.

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