A Mother Is . . .

Artist: She beautifies the home and colors endless coloring book pictures.

Beautician: She clips, cuts, and curls a little beauty’s hair.

Chauffeur: She delivers one child to a piano lesson, picks up another after a ball game, and hurries to her husband’s plane.

Dietician: She plans endless menus and makes vegetables tasty.

Engineer: She keeps the home’s wheels well-oiled and running efficiently.

Fashion designer: She alters hand-me-downs and creates originals.

Guardian: She guards the virtue of her family unit.

Housekeeper: She straightens and cleans and wipes up spills.

Information bureau: She answers thou­sands of youthful questions, ranging from “Do caterpillars yawn?” to “Where are my socks?”

Judge: She is called upon to settle the daily disputes that erupt wherever two or more children congregate.

Keeper at home: She functions masterfully in her unique role (Titus 2:5).

Laundry worker: She endlessly washes, dries, folds, and puts away clothes.

Musician: She sings lullabies to coax droopy eyes to sleep.

Nurse: She treats a variety of ills, from scraped knees to broken hearts.

Organizer: She arranges birthday parties, shopping expenditures, ball games, and work projects.

Pharmacist: She dispenses Band-Aids, children’s Tylenol, and iodine.

Queen of the home: She is the center around which the family revolves.

Recreation director: She plans activities for school, scouts, church groups, and home.

Seamstress: She patches and mends the inevitable holes, rips, and tears.

Teacher: She instructs little minds in the first lessons of life.

Upholsterer: She re-covers or refinishes old furniture to make it last a little longer.

Vocational counselor: She offers advice about possible future occupations.

Waitress: She graciously serves hundreds of meals a year.

X-Ray technician: She sees right through excuses, evasions, and cover-ups to get to the truth underneath.

Yard worker: She plants, prunes, and trims.

Zoo keeper: She feeds the pets when the children forget their solemn promise to take care of that job.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed.” – Proverbs 31:28

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