Let me 'paint the picture' for you...
It is 6:45 PM on a Tuesday (today in fact) and it has been a LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG day! Did I mention it was a long day?? My children and I have been home for 1 hour. My husband is working late and will not be home for another 30 minutes. I worked through lunch today due to a busy work schedule and a lunch meeting... not that it wouldn't hurt me to skip a few meals, but I digress!! I have just spent the 1st hour home prompting my son every 15 minutes to finish his '10 minute' home work assignment. (How hard can it be to write 3 sentences about 3 animals and then draw their pictures?????) I am looking for something to feed my family for dinner, while I have an increasingly pounding headache (remember the part where I skipped eating lunch?) and I am, quite frankly, tired of yelling, um, I mean 'telling' my son to finish his homework.
I try to cook breakfast for dinner and the eggs I am about to cook for my family are almost 15 days old. So, scrap that plan, turn off the stove and turn off the oven-- a grocery store trip is much needed! So, I resort to ordering Domino's for dinner- what a GREAT mom I am, huh???! Oh, and by the way, we missed our T-Ball game tonight due to, well we are all exhausted, so we didn't go. It doesn't help that both of their jerseys and pants are still in the dirty clothes hamper from last week. So, all in all, there will be no 'Special Mommy Awards' given to me today, as my friend Tamara would say!!! So, are you with me?
I am sitting there with my 2 children eating pizza in the living room (a special treat usually only reserved for Family Game Night on Friday nights) and I am thinking to myself, 'Will this headache ever go away?' Then, Anna Grace asks me, 'Mommy, is ALL of that STUFF your scrapbooking stuff?' To which I answer, 'Yes, honey, it ALL is!' She says, 'WOW! That is A LOT of scrapbooking stuff.' (I agree with her at this point and she looks at me like I am crazy!) Then, I say, 'I have lots of memories to scrapbook of you guys and your pictures.'
It is at this moment when it happens. This very moment in a mommy's day is what makes being a MOMMY so INCREDIBLE and OH so worth it....
My son, Austin, says, 'Mommy, you are the BEST mommy ever!! Do you want to know WHY you are the best mommy ever?' As I think to myself, 'This should be REALLY good after a day like today', I say, 'Yes, son, I would love to hear why!' He proceeds to say the following to me, with MUCH ENTHUSIASM...
-You order us pizza!
-You make memories of us!
-You scrapbook us! (This cracked me up!)
-You take care of us.
-You love us.
-You help us with homework.
-You drive us everywhere. (You can say that again!)
-You let us sleep in your bed sometimes and on pallets in your room.
-You laugh with us.
-You give good hugs to us.
-You pay for stuff for us. (Someone has to.)
-You take us to church.
-You sing to us.
-You are really smart (Did you read that last part Nancy & Shana? :) )
-You are the BEST mommy EVER!!
Then, he adds, 'Oh, and daddy is the best daddy too, because he does all of that stuff, too!'
Well, at this point, I was speechless and I realized it wasn't such a bad day after all! I don't know about you, but I think we might have just made another memory!!
1 year ago
