Humble and Prosper - Can You Have a Great Family and Great Success?

As a mother of seven kids, all my time is spent at the home front of my castle. I have spent a lot of time bitching and complaining, while cleaning and loving after my little big family, also with wanting so much more. Even though I also spend a lot of time on the Internet, browsing Facebook, looking for work to do at home, but also mad because I have all the ideals in the world to become successful. I am really not ready to sacrifice being an African American at home mother/housewife for a dying dream because I know it's a 24-hour job within itself to be that perfect mom. At times, I love being the best mom in the world, but I also love working and my children having nice things. Time, to me, is slipping by really fast, which has me realizing that I am 31 years old and I am not successful. A person from the outside looking in would probably ask me, “well what did you think would happen if you keep having children?”

Since being raised as an only child, I always wanted a big family. I knew in my future it contained children of my own and a husband who loved me.Yeah, I wish maybe I had a bit more for my little family, but the prayer of being fruitful has been answered. I can’t really complain or wish anything different when it comes to the gift of giving life. I just hope that I get to live a lifetime to see what my womanhood has produced in my near future. We never know our time or hour that we might get sent home. So I live everyday as if it was my last day here, and I must say the love I have in my household is one of the most graceful and humble feelings that one person could have.

However, every pro has a con, and my con to my dreams coming true is that with all that I have with love, I strive for success even more. This is where my morality overcomes my value to society. See, my morality is the family values of what a good mother is, “I’m not knocking the working mother in any way, shape or form,” but my ideals of me being a good mommy is being there for them in every way. When you are a career mom you sacrifice time and once in a life time moments. I am not willing to let that go for any price on life. Therefore, I must give up the value I could be to society, especially when I am as smart as I am. Growing up, I never wanted to be nearly 50 trying to be successful; I at least wanted to be almost retired by the time I started having Grandchildren.

With this being my epidemic to stress, I decided to do both; being the greatest mom and gain a successful life. Commonsense knows I need a schedule that is open to what I need to do as a mother and as an achiever. I already wasted so much time and opportunities with my 20’s that now the time I set for step one of becoming successful is less then a decade away. I also know, it’s crazy, but I would rather make money and be a house wife/mother full time then take the time out for fun. Especially when I experienced a lifetime of fun and situations for one person. With my life I gained stories to tell, some embarrassing as well as some accomplishments, so I don’t really have that urge. I do sometimes want that extra out romance with my husband and the Family Matters television moments with my babies. No matter how super mom I am, I still am a freaking woman first, so those things I yearn for are just because I am still a woman with an emotional overlook at life.

I am always asking myself how am I going to do it all, I tell every body that there is a way. I am very optimistic and I believe that there is always a way. I am still looking for mines, so maybe just maybe, in the near future I can write you my success story of carrying out your dreams while enjoying the essence of love, because with most people; they will say I have to make a choice, and I refuse to choose between the both. I do know one thing, that even with my soon to be six children, I know that equals some success, I just want the other half of the silver spoon.

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