But sometimes it doesn’t hurt to be reminded. Surfing some scrapbooking sites last night I ran across this too very true reflection on motherhood. I love her sister’s quote:

“Value yourself for this. It earns no worldly acclaim, no financial gain; sometimes you will see no immediate reward. Have faith in your worth as a woman.” Being a mother has been the greatest task that I have ever attempted to do. I’m not prefect by any means, but I realize that all I have to do is try to be the best mother I can and my children will love me for it. Being a Mother is my Greatest Joy. "

what she said. ; )   and some pics of one of nine reasons I get up in the morning and do it all over again:

Found this today. I love it! 

…tagged for the Thinking Blogger Award apparently lol. Thanks to Rebecca and the good folks at Knotty Pines! 

If you get tagged with a Thinking Blogger Award, you are then supposed to do the following:

1. Write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.

Do you suppose it reflects poorly on one’s thinking ability when one cannot seem to upload the Thinking Blogger icon clearly? Sigh……

Here is the post for which Rebecca tagged me. 

Some blogs that have me thinking lately are:

Sara’s post on Transforming from Walk Slowly, Live Wildly is awesome as is everything I am reading here lately.

The CM Blog has bitesized pieces of Charlotte Mason’s Six Volume series. This section is on Habit which is a particular interest of mine right now.

I have thought long and hard about implementing a morning time routine like the one described so well at Dominion Family.

Alice Cantrell’s site isn’t loading for my browser at this moment but she wrote a lovely post about why it is that vintage homemaking is such a fascinating topic for contemporary women. Alice, where are you?

The Abiblog contains exerpts from vintage books about all sorts of things that make you go hmmm. The one I linked to touches upon the selection of a wife (circa 1897)

There are an awful lot of women who make me think on a regular basis. I do have such a hard time with limiting my choices. <g>