Beyoutifulhomemaker

A few days ago, I pulled my baby in my bed after she woke up from her nap and laid down with her. We had a rare moment where we were both still together. Usually when Oaklee lays down with me, she digs her fingers into my mouth or nose and pulls my hair. This time she put her hand softly on my face and for a little moment we looked into each others eyes. I could feel her sweet, pure spirit and this quote came into my mind.  "When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it in the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."                                               

Hello! I'm Cheryl... a passionate wife, mom, homemaker, singer, mormon, and seeker of good things. My purpose in creating this blog is to share "small and simple things" that make a big impact in my life as a wife and mom who is striving to create a strong, happy home by first creating a strong, happy me.  My dream as a little girl was always to grow up, get married, and become a mommy. Now I am living my dream and loving it! I'm learning though that loving my "job" as a homemaker takes a little work. Often times outside influences try to say that creating a home is not important, exciting, or "big." A quote that I love by Bonnie L. Oscarson says it perfectly... "We need to take a term which is sometimes spoken of with derision and elevate it. It is the term homemaker. All of us—women, men, youth, and children, single or married—can work at being homemakers. We should “make our homes' places of order, refuge, holiness, and s