Good Steps

This Lent has been weird for me. I was not sure what I was doing to make this a different time.

And I was reading my Small Steps book and this thought popped in my head....

I am trying to be more home.

Really, for a "Stay-at-Home" mom and "Home Schooling" mom, I am never home. Between errands for the family, doctor appointments for the children and my mother-in-law, library trips, field trips, bible study, and then those visits with friends, I am usually out every day of the week. And those 'naked days' - you know the ones: where the square on the calendar for that day is 'naked'; someone calls and off I go again.

For a while now, I have been feeling that I needed to do more to be considered a "Good Catholic". I needed to be more active at church, at the homeschool group, at bible study. I had to figure out how to be a better disciple, which meant going out more.

And I am coming to the realization that those thoughts do not reflect what I am really supposed to do. I am supposed to be a "Good Catholic" by doing my job. And right now, my job is to stay home and be a better disciple to my children.

I am to show them better stewardship of the gifts we have been blessed with. I am to show them Jesus' love in the sacrifice of time by serving others; especially when that service conflicts with something we really want to do. I am to model gratitude and joy in doing my chores as well as picking up the slack in completing other's chores.

This is what it means, to me, to be a "Good Catholic": be a "Good Mom".

A worthy endeavor, to be sure.

I am off to see what others are saying about their 'small steps' and 'sacrifice' over at Elizabeth's - join us!