Being Mama

It's Mother's Day and I'm lounging in bed, I could use a refill of my coffee but I'll give the family a break, they aren't used to the tables being turned.

For me, being a Mom is something I wouldn't trade for the world and yet at times it has me dreaming of being incarcerated, getting 3 squares a day, exercising in 'the yard' and using cigarettes as money. The good times are priceless and the bad times are heart wrenching.

Highlights? Let's see,

• Driving home from the hospital with a newborn, realizing that every car is aiming for us.
• Deprivation of sleep causing me to not recognize that formula tends to curdle with a fever until the 4th barf-o-rama.
• Dancing around while holding Ashlee to Copacabana just to hear her belly laughs.
• Ashlee telling me, "I don't like you." at age 2, then again every couple years and I think just the other day.
• Receiving daily incident reports from daycare that Lauren had bitten another child.
• Finding out it was always the same child *sigh*
• Getting a note from daycare that started with, 'Today Ashlee shoved a bean up her nose...'
• Telling Ashlee her arm wasn't broken and she was fine when it was indeed broken. (touching huh?)
• Threatening to take the girls to the bathroom (code for 'I will whip your behind.') and watching them wise-up.
• Forgetting Lauren at school (twice, okay maybe three times) and hearing her say, 'Forgot your own child, nice Mom.'
• Watching the girls develop a finely tuned sense of sarcasm and humor.
• Composting Elwood the goat with Lauren.
• Teaching both of them to drive a stick shift.
• Ashlee graduating.
• Lauren making varsity soccer her Freshman year (and then proceeding to get her head mangled about).
• Having people over for dinner and watching the girls cleanup without being told.
• Saying, 'For the 1,468, 745 time, DON'T TALK WITH FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH!!!'
• Wondering where my shoes, belts, tops, jackets and jewelry are.
• Realizing that cash stays in my wallet at the most for 12 minutes. (they can smell it)
• Every Christmas morning.
• Every time I hear, 'I love you.'
• Hugs
• Realizing they are a little piece of me

Motherhood is a blessing and I'm calling the front desk about the coffee, this is ridiculous!!!