A Mothers Day Thought

I feel...uhm, how do you put it? I feel wearied? Discouraged? Maybe some. Tired. But that is an always thing. Stressed, now that is more like it. Ok, partially stressed, and dreadfully wearied. Sounds awful. But sometimes this is just how motherhood is!! Can you imagine having your days filled with diaper changing (2 in diapers, 1 is potty trained), making meals, bathing kids, reading to kids, teaching them to play fairly, playing with them or entertaining them, feeding kids, cleaning up after they spilled all those noodles and spaghetti sauce on the floor, many times of running around the house destroying everything in his or her's path, finding out that the walls are a huge canvas just ready to be coloured on, many times of screaming, many times of fighting, many times of "I want sumthing to eat", and "I want DVD!", and then one of the children decide to not nap leaving him grouchy right about 4ish (thats when Mom needs to cook supper) so you sit child in highchair as you cook supper and feed him this cracker, some corn, oh here have some of this...and then before you know it the said child falls asleep in the chair. NO! Now said child will not go to bed on time....no, now he wants to play and play and get into things and make mommy feel as if she will never have time to read and relax after a stressful day of motherhood! Phew! Yes...sometimes this is motherhood.

So, I was naive. Before I got married, or rather before I had children, I had no clue what sleep deprivation was, or what it would cost the mom for day in and day out service to the kids, house and husband duties (not in any order here). I had no real idea what it meant for a mom to be a mom, and I had no idea how much energy, both emotionally and bodily it was going to take to even get through one single day. One single day. Wow.

But before you start feeling sorry for me, I want to point out that that is not my point I'm trying to make! I definitely feel for all those mothers who go to the grind every day (and night shifts too if they are nursing) for all their service it is hard work! I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to who else but my wonderful mothers! THANK YOU Mom for taking care of all the nitty gritty details of me as a child! Thank you for putting up with me as a toddler, as a teenager and even so as a young adult! Thank you for giving me your love, your work ethic, your hours of time, your advice, your nursing abilities when I was sick (and I know that was sooo many times!)....wow, I could add to this but I think the majority is said. And THANK YOU to my Mother in law for raising such a wonderful man as my husband. For doing all the things that made him to be who he is. For encouraging him towards whatever call he had, whether it was to art, to music, to studying or even more seriously to his occupation. Thank you for supporting his wife (me) in so many ways. I don't think you know how much this means to me!

So...that said, I LOVE YOU BOTH!!

Said child is now asleep in his bed
(this was an earlier photo of today but thought it suited the post)

And yes you are allowed to laugh. :)