MFP 209: What Does a SAHM Look Like?
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"A capable wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." - Proverbs 31:10
Let's be honest. Moms do much more work than the average person, especially when they are at home with young children for most of the day. Even moms who work, or who have a side hustle, rarely pull back on caring for children, running the household, and keeping everyone fed and clothed. But this great service to the family can also be a burden, it can cause resentment, and it can cause burnout. Moms can feel stuck, even trapped. How do we prevent that from happening? How can we change our perspective and embrace what we do for our family as our path to holiness and sanctification? It comes down to three things - identity, belonging, and mission. Listen in to learn more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello, messy families. It is a great day. Yes. It's a wonderful day. Okay. How are you doing? |
| 0:32.5 | So I'm, I'm a little, um, a little, uh, let's see, paranoid. |
| 0:39.2 | What? |
| 0:39.4 | What? Um, we were on a Zoom call. I was on a Zoom call with Mike. Uh-oh. |
| 0:44.6 | Uh, the other day, we were in a meeting. I was actually upstairs. We were in a Zoom call with our team. |
| 0:48.8 | I was upstairs. He's down here. And all the sudden on the Zoom call, you see Mike jump up out of his chair. |
| 0:57.9 | And I'm, but we're all like, we're, we keep talking. |
| 1:00.8 | And then he's like, we see him like walking around. |
| 1:03.6 | And then he goes and sits down. |
| 1:05.5 | And we were like, what, what was going on? |
| 1:07.2 | He was like, I just looked down and there was a snake on the floor. And I was like, |
| 1:13.7 | what? What are you getting me? I was upstairs. Yes. There was a snake. We have snakes. |
| 1:20.5 | I don't know if we have multiple snakes. We had less one snake, gardener snake in our basement. |
| 1:23.8 | Very tiny. This is never happened. This is bizarre. I felt a little merry in there. |
| 1:28.4 | I crushed the head of the serpent. |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, we were going to have some kind of post about Mike crushing the head of Satan. |
| 1:34.5 | I probably should have been St. |
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