First Visit to MOPS

[GiaMarie]

Today was the first time I have attended a MOPS meeting (Mothers Of Preschoolers).  They had a discussion about how to find your identity as a wife and mother. The questions that we were asked got me to thinking…

1.    List the things that you dread about being a wife and mother.

    Dread? Well, that is easy. I don’t really enjoy being the laundress, cook, and housekeeper for everyone. But do I hate it? No. Not really. I dread the worrying over if Roger and I are “doing” this parent-thing right. More often than not, I have to continually ask God to direct our paths. They are HIS children before they are ours.

2. List the things that you enjoy about being a wife and mother.

    I love being married to Roger. It is as simple as that. He brings out the best in me…and I like to think I do the same for him—though we certainly do bring out the worst in each other as well. I tell people that when God was making us, He placed in me the things He could not fit in Roger…and in Roger, He placed the things He could not fit in me. Bring us together, and we are a pretty awesome team.
    I love being called “mommy”. There was once a time that I never thought I would have children. I had mourned the loss of two babies and had little hope that another would survive. But by the grace of God, I was blessed. Hearing Lucy call me her mommy is the greatest feeling in the world.

3.    What do you feel you have lost of yourself since having children and how can you get it back?

    I have most definitely lost my mind, but I don’t think I will be getting it back.

4. How will you share your passions with your children?

A lot of women said they didn’t know what their passions were, while I had trouble pinpointing just a few. I am passionate about so many things that the only way I will be able to share them with my children is to home school them. I want to teach them—show them the world—and provide a multitude of learning experiences that will not only share my passions with them, but also awaken their own. What is a better way to reveal life and this world to my babies? A teacher in a public school would not be able to devote that kind of one-on-one attention to my children. Nor would he or she know how to train up my child in the ways of the Lord, so that when they are older, they will not depart from it. My babies are meant to grow up to be mighty warriors in God’s Kingdom. Their father and I are here to teach their fingertips how to make war…how to stand strong…and how to walk mighty—spirit filled lives.


These were the questions asked of us. But did I answer a single one in group discussion? Nope. I didn’t speak a single word because everyone else’s answers were so different than my own. I thought it was too soon to share such things about myself. Why? Because I know that I am weird (though, perhaps, my answers don’t convey this). It was just too soon to let them in on the secret. I will go a few more times. Only after that will I reveal the true Andrea. If they let me back…then I will know they may be just as weird as me. ☺

~Gia☺