Mom! I'm Home!
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I must admit that staying home wasn’t easy. I felt that I wasn’t getting anywhere socially, mentally, or physically. I envied my husband going to work every day and leaving me home to care for the children. I felt so left out and at times lonely for adult companionship. I felt like I wasn’t moving and that I was at a stand still. My husband would go off to work every day leaving me to tend to messy diapers, runny noses, and sick children. I must say those were very difficult times. I didn’t know if I would make it or not. At times I thought for sure that I would go crazy. I remember one time my husband being gone for a few weeks on business, I had a sick child and she wasn’t getting better. She had an ear infection and her fever wasn’t breaking. I remember crying to the Lord and telling Him that I couldn’t take it any more. I told Him that I was doing what I was supposed to and I needed His help. I told Him that I had had enough, I asked Him to please make my little girl well. Immediately she fell asleep in my arms. Her fever broke and she got better from then on. I thank the Lord for being there when I needed Him, when I had nowhere else to turn. Still I had emptiness inside me. Even though I was being obedient and staying home with my children, I knew I had to do something to keep my sanity. I wasn’t too nice to be around at that time. I even went through a three-year depression. I decided that I didn’t want to live like this any more. I needed time away from the kids. I even needed to be away from my husband. I needed a break from the life of a stay-at-home mom. I really felt bad. I couldn’t understand why obeying the Prophet was causing me so much trial. I realized that in order for me to function properly as a mother I actually had to take time out for myself. I had to know that this was a must so I could be a better mother. Many women get frustrated and actually abandon their family. What’s lacking in their lives is balance: Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical.
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About the Book
When I got married, I decided that I would be a stay-at-home mom. I couldn’t imagine it any other way. I tried working part time for a few months, but it just didn’t feel right. I knew my place was to be at home holding, kissing, feeding, and loving my child. I was at a loss though, on how to raise my children without a farm. I noticed that humans are the only species that don’t raise their young to go out into the wild. I didn’t know how to successfully do this. I wondered what would occupy their time, what were we to do all day? I started to ask other women how they raised their children. I listened to tapes and read books on parenting. I asked the Lord what I could do and then I proceeded to raise my children with what I had learned. In this book I have compiled all kinds of information from many different sources as well as my own creations. I learned how to raise my children and actually enjoy the time I was with them. I want to share this with you, as a mother and father. You will read how to keep your shape and your sanity through the child rearing years. You learn to keep a balance between time with your spouse, your children and your own personal life. Staying at home can work both financially and mentally and you will have the energy to do it. You will learn to stay married and keep the romance alive. The daddy’s role is of utmost importance in your life as well as your children’s lives. Discipline with love and love with discipline is a fine line that fathers and mothers both must learn. The time is so precious that you have with your children. There are so many opportunities for loving and bonding and teaching. We cannot afford to waste it. You will learn how to cook meals that are cheap, but delicious and easy. You will learn to budget your income, and how to cut back. You will learn to prioritize and also learn what a priority is. What do you do with your children's friends and how long they should stay at your house? How do you avoid becoming the street free babysitter because you are the one at home? What to do handle and decide when to give your children money, for example with chores or grades. This book will help you take advantage of those child rearing years, so that you will not have any regrets that you missed out on their lives and that you were not there for them. You can be at home and still miss out on a lot with your children. Just because you are home doesn’t mean you are with your children. The goal of this book is to guide parents in raising, confident children with self-esteem, ready to go out into the world to do the same thing that you are doing. . Being a mother is the most important thing you can do on this earth, there is nothing higher. Too many homes are motherless and fatherless. We need to pull together and raise these sweet children of God and do the best we can with what we know and are blessed with. May God be with you in your righteous endeavors and may you be there when your child runs through the door and yells, Mom! I’m Home!
About the Author
I was born in a small town called Highland, Utah to Fred Loveridge Buhler and Ruby Rae Lee. I have eight brothers and six sisters. I was raised on a twenty acre farm and always had plenty to do. My chores were milking cows, feeding and watering the goats, chickens, and pigs. Every year we planted tomatoes and then sold the harvest. My mother was always at home and always seemed to show up just in time with food and drinks when were out in the fields working all day. During the winter, I loved coming in from the cold to a nice hot home cooked meal. Our house was small but we didn’t seem to care. We never did get an indoor bathroom and never had any heat in the room we slept in. We all bathed in a round tin tub that we place in the kitchen and filled up with warm water on Saturdays. Our toilet was out back and boy, was it a cold seat in the wintertime! We loved being together in work and in play. Our favorite things to do together was playing games, watching Nightmare on Friday night, watching home movies and eating home made fries and slush. We went to parades, parks, church, reunions, drive inns, bus rides, grandma’s house, state fair and many other family outings. I grew up in a very loving environment filled with all kinds of adventures. I married at age eighteen to Joseph V. Orgill whom I met at a dance in Salt Lake City, Utah, a thirty-minute ride from my house. We bought a home in Granger, now called West Valley City, Utah and raised six children in the same home. We had three boys and three girls, (boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl). Six seemed like a good number of children to have since I was number six (I’m glad that I wasn’t number fifteen). I have been a stay-at-home mom now for 27 years and still going. It wasn’t the easiest thing I did, but it definitely was the most rewarding. I don’t have any regrets. My children are almost all grown now and I am enjoying being a grandma. I can’t believe how quickly those children rearing years have passed. I’m so glad I was there to see it all happen. I thank God everyday for that and for helping me get through a lot of tough spots. I hope that this book will help you in your adventure of being a stay-at-home mom and may God be bless you in your efforts.