Nesting Day Anyone?

Nesting Day anyone? Some people are planning trips for spring break, others are nesting, otherwise known as spring cleaning!  Rather than taking a trip to escape, I want to spend time making a place I want to be.  I choose to clean the nest, rather than adding more feathers to it.

This is one of those important but non urgent things I need to do, so I will not have to live from crisis to crisis. This goes right along with Julie Beck's admonition that Mothers Who Know:

*Are Nurturers--- "To nurture means to cultivate, care for, and make grow. Therefore, mothers who know create a climate for spiritual and temporal growth in their homes. Another word for nurturing is homemaking. Homemaking includes cooking, washing clothes and dishes, and keeping an orderly home. Home is where women have the most power and influence; therefore, Latter-day Saint women should be the best homemakers in the world. Working beside children in homemaking tasks creates opportunities to teach and model qualities children should emulate."

*  Do Less-- "Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all."

~Donna