I sat next to my three-year-old and across from my seven-year-old at lunch yesterday. My niece read a question from a conversation starter box at the table.
“What is the greatest dream of your life?” She asked.
I could have said…
See my book published.
Tell my story.
Speak to women.
But the first thing that came to my tongue was,
“Be a mama.”
All truth. That has been the greatest dream of my life fulfilled. I’m content. I’m satisfied. And I love my responsibilities.
Even when there are tantrums or fevers, or when there are little people who want their own way. Even when there are tears to be wiped or baths to be given and knees to be bandaged. Even when I feel like walking out the door as soon as my husband walks in the door in the evening. It is still my dream.
And I’m honored and humbled to begin another year with them.
I was thinking the same thing, sitting and chatting with a good friend just before Christmas. She is a stay-at-home, homeschooling mama like I am, and we just thought “wow, we are so incredibly blessed, spoiled even!, to be home with our kids full time,” It is really and truly a dream come true!
This is my dream too. In part. I’ve always felt led to be a mama to other people’s kids. At first I thought that meant adoption but now I see the Lord working it out differently. Right now it’s with my nieces. My sister is a single mom, it’s been a difficult situation for awhile & the girls spend a lot of time with us. Really it’s most of the time. So I spend my days with 5 kids (my 3 boys & my 2 nieces) under the age of 7. In the future I see us being foster parents to kids who are close to aging out of the system, giving them a family to always come back to. Obviously that part of my dream will have to wait but I am thrilled with the part that’s already been realized.
Beautiful and my dream too. I’m so lucky to have two children who call me mama. Even when it’s hard there’s still nothing I’d rather be doing than taking care of them!
Like you, I have a lot of dreams and ambitions, but if I can’t get it right at home then I am nothing out there.
Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
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My dream too!! Happy Birthday ( I think) and have a safe, fabulous New Year’s Eve!!
In the car last night I was telling my husband the same thing…I love being a mama.
its funny, I know i don’t know you… and you don’t know me… and most wouldn’t know this about me, but its my dream too. Just to be a mom. i am mom to 2 step children whom I have raised since they were 5/7. Its such an honor.
BTW HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY~!
Happy New Year Sarah! May 2010 be greater than 2009 and may your love for God and your family grow immensely! Your words have blessed me in the last few months that I have read your blog. Thank you for sharing your life with all of us.
Such goodness here. Such purity. Such a God-given desire, to women.
I’m so glad, so privileged. . . to be called Mama, also.
Hug those sweet girls often.
Kiss their soft cheeks.
Tell them I love you, over and over.
Love U,
Traci
Being a Mom was and is wonderful but being a Grandma has topped even my wildest expectations! Seeing my grandchildren grow and learn new things every day and learning all about Jesus and His love for them has made my life complete!
That was my first & biggest goal too — to be a mother. We lost one along the way but that loss just makes the presence of the two we got to keep that much sweeter. It helps me not take them for granted.
Being a mama was my biggest dream as well, though for a while I forget about it and was unsure if it would happen. It has been a long, difficult and painful road to get here, but so thankful beyond words for my blessings and my babies.
Even the craziest days are filled with joy and I wouldn’t trade them for the world and am thankful for each and every single day with them. 
Happy New Year!
Sarah I had a similar experience the other day. I’ve been praying all week this week about what the Lord wants my priorities to be in 2010. One of the questions I am asking was “Who am I Lord? Who do You want me to be?” I was laying in bed, having just turned off the lights, praying this very prayer when my 2yo began to cry from his room. I sprang up out of bed to find him laying in front of his door (his little body blocked it when I opened the door). When he saw me he sat up, reached his arms up for me and said “want you mama.” As I picked him up and sat down to begin rocking him and felt his little body snuggle up to me I knew God had given me an answer. “Mama. I want you to be Mama.” And in truth, in that moment, none of my other dreams mattered that much.
Oooh! Me too, me too! thanks for giving it words!
Beautiful words. Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Sarah!!!
That was always my dream also…and finally, after 3 miscarriages, I got to adopt. But the unbelievable struggle that it has been because of becoming a single mother when she was not quite 3, and a psychological diagnosis for her, it has been so, so hard, and I think that many times, too much of the time, I have forgotten that it was my dream. And have forgotten that God gave me this incredible child. Thank you for helping me to remember. And praying that I will always remember this, in 2010, and always.