B & B Dreams

I'm not here because I think I have any great wisdom to share.  Instead, I am hoping to learn from all the others here.

I'm not even sure about this blogging thing.  Is it really something I need to be taking up my time with?  Don't I have enough things to do?  Wouldn't my time be better spent on hearth and home -- being a helpmeet to my husband, taking care of our home, homeschooling and nurturing my four children, caring for family (both biological and spiritual), etc?  Will this become a reason for me to shoo my kids off my lap?  (After all, this is the 2nd attempt at my first post -- the 1st attempt being interrupted when my 2 year old switched off the power strip under my desk!)

But I am needing to learn.

One dream we have is to own and operate a bed and breakfast.  Our heart's desire is to bring my husband "home."  Children need their fathers -- perhaps today more than ever, when dads are gone from the home so many hours a day.  I call this a dream because we have no way of making this dream come true outside of God's divine provision.  It will truly need to be a "God thing."  So we pray.  And perhaps I will learn here some small steps we can take towards realizing that dream.

In addition, we desire to train our sons to be providers, and ideally through entrepreneurial means, and to train our daughter to be a keeper at home.  I have been part of a group for a while that discusses this latter issue, but there seems to be little practical discussion of what skills I will be teaching her.  So, I am hoping to glean more practicalities here -- for both our sons and daughter.

We also long for a slower-paced, simpler life.  This is definitely a challenge living in the "big city."  There are people to see, places to go, and things to do -- as the saying goes.  Not all of it is easily eliminated -- nor should it be.  We learned, during the year we lived many states away from our family, as missionaries near the Navajo reservation, that it's quite easier to slow down in a small town, away from family and friends, when your life centers around the mission campus.  In the city, with family from one end to another, homeschool support group friends whom we cherish, and church family and ministries in an urban setting, the "people...places...and things..." can be endless.

So, I'll start this journey and hope to find encouragement and support and wisdom here as I walk this road.  I look forward to walking it together.