(Mimi is so nervous about my New Year's Resolutions from yesterday! She's panicked that there will be no "peace keeper" in the family. O.Kay, Mimi, whatever makes you happy. I just want everyone to be happy.
Just kidding! I'm sticking to my guns! So watch out! )
Today I met with a group of moms/friends and we discussed the latest book that we're reading, Having A Mary Heart in a Martha World. I can't decide if I'm a Mary or a Martha! After describing the state of my house to you in yesterday's post, I think it's safe to assume that I'm a Mary. But I have a heck of a lot of Martha in me, as well. Although, honestly, the more tired I am, the more of a Mary I become. Maybe Mary was just tired! I used to have my kids dressed to a T. In fact, they all four coordinated. Poor Li'l Man! All the girls would have baby blue linen dresses and he'd have blue linen shorts. Or the girls would have the cutest pink dresses with snowflakes on them, and Will would have a blue jon-jon with snowflakes on it. The majority of their clothes were all monogrammed. Their hair was always brushed, and they always had a coordinating hair bow to match their monogrammed outfit. My bed was made and every window treatment, shower curtain, and/or pillow had trim to match the fabric.
My how things have changed. The other day Sunshine had a shirt on with KK's initials on it. I heard her tell my mom, "Mom said she ran out of clean shirts." I would have never let AAA leave the house like that. And almost all of my throw pillows have holes in them. I just arrange them so no one can tell. But that's what having four little ones does to you. You just don't care as much. You're just happy that the kids have clothes on at all. But I don't know if my heart has changed as much as my energy level has changed. Am I really a Mary or just a really lazy Martha? I have to wonder. I hope to explore this a little further during the course of the next few weeks. I'll get back to you. I may have just hit on a really important concept that all of the biblical scholars (men, I'm sure) may have over-looked. Mary was TIRED! I hope I'm not being blasphemous here. I don't mean to be. I 'm completely serious when I tell you that I don't know if I'm a Martha who has just decided that I'm too tired to be a Martha so I'll think I'll be a Mary because it's easier, or if I'm a Mary by nature. But then I think, ya know, I really like for my wrapping paper to coordinate well with my decor, so maybe I really am a Martha. I DON'T KNOW!
(To illustrate my point about not caring as much about how my children dress, I've posted the above picture. Kit Kat wore that cowboy hat with a tiara on it out in public, with her thrift store jean jacket buttoned all the way to the top . And Sunshine wore pink rain boots with her red outfit. And,yes, KitKAt wore flip-flops to the Christmas program).
5 comments:
I like Mary.
Ummmm, I don't think you had the four kids coordinated...I think you were remembering the AA and Little Man days!? :) LOL I only have two and already I am going down hill. Mom is laughing at me and calling Lucy her "hallmark baby" What would I be like with 4???
MM - I think you mean "Wal-Mart Baby." And I have pictures to prove that I had the FOUR kids coordinated!
Right on , Tiff! I like Mary and Martha and I think you are both them, at different times throughout the day. You love to soak up the WORD and listen, and you always are working throughout the day and giving HIM thanks. Remember when daddy exclaimed, "No wonder, HE sometimes doesn't listen to me, he's too busy finding yall's keys and starting your cars!" love, mom. I can't wait to tell MNM that she misunderstood walmart for hallmark (only when Lucy is wearing spandex)- no wonder she didn't get mad!!!! love, mom
Oh...well I was wondering how hallmark fit in with clothes. So yeah now I am mad! :) And Tiff I will have to see it to believe it! :)
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