Watch your priorities!

My sink is a mess of dishes that I should have done yesterday before going to bed. But they can wait until after the morning service.

My son and I are going to start walking early to the service. Taking off, hand-in-hand down the road, with my husband picking us up probably about a half hour later in the car. The church is a good three miles away, after all.

He'll be exercising his little legs (my son), out in the sun and fresh air, gathering memories. The 'model homemaker' might have decided to do the dishes instead and make sure the kitchen was fresh and clean in case we had anyone come to lunch. (For shame! Yesterday's dishes!)

But homemaking is a means to an end, and it is better to focus on the end while performing the means. Because every now and then, the end is not found in a sink full of dishes, but in a long country road and a little boy.